Beschreibung
Panel discussion
Moderation: Iris Neuberg
Panelists:
Christopher Opio, Ugandan Activist and Project-affected-Person, Teamlead of Oil Refinery Residents Association (ORRA)
Janepher Baitwamasa, Ugandan environmental and human rights activist, programme coordinator at the Navigators of Development Association (NAVODA)
Nicholas Omonuk, Ugandan climate activist, founder of End Fossil Occupy Uganda
Fatim Selina Diaby, feminist and decolonial BIPOC, activist from Germany
The Ugandan government is currently working flat out with international oil companies such as Total Energies to construct over 400 oil wells and the world’s longest heated oil pipeline, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). Although touted as a driver of economic development, this large-scale fossil fuel project has already led to numerous unlawful land expropriations and the destruction of the livelihoods of many local residents, repression of critics, the destruction of sensitive ecosystems, and massive long-term social, economic and psychological consequences for local communities. At the same time, civil resistance against the East African Crude Oil Pipeline has been growing for years, ranging from the affected local communities to international activist networks.
Together with human rights activists, we would like to discuss the impact of European corporations’ business interests on people, the environment and the climate in Uganda; the strategies they have developed in times of growing autocracy and shrinking civil spaces, the need for transnational solidarity and the role Austria can play in this.
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Veranstalter
Institut für Internationale Entwicklung in Kooperation mit VIDC
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Kontakt
Studienassistenz IE
Department of Development Studies
+43-1-4277-641 19
studienassistenz.ie(at)univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Donnerstag, 23. April 2026, 11:46
Letzte Änderung am Mittwoch, 29. April 2026, 09:00