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Social justice goes hand in hand with environmental campaigns - and not just in Africa

In: Standing up for a Sustainable World

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  • Phyllis Omido

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In Mombassa, Kenya, Phyllis Omido showed that climate and environmental campaigns are more effective if they are linked to issues of social justice. Without that, many communities feel the issues are too distant. On this basis she was able to mobilize local communities poisoned by lead leaking from a battery recycling smelter. With the police on the side of the industry, protesters were threatened and harassed for more than three years, but progressively built support from local media, from judges and from international NGOs, to the point of having the Kenyan public authorities ordering the smelter’s closure.

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  • Phyllis Omido, 2020. "Social justice goes hand in hand with environmental campaigns - and not just in Africa," Chapters, in: Claude Henry & Johan Rockström & Nicholas Stern (ed.), Standing up for a Sustainable World, chapter 12, pages 131-133, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20009_12
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