Climate Justice Conference Peru 2024
Conference on Climate Justice, Indigenous Voices, and Wikimedia Platforms
Huaraz, Peru
November 8-10, 2024
The Weaving Networks of Knowledge in Latin America: Conference on Climate Justice, Indigenous Voices, and Wikimedia Platforms is organized by WikiAcción Perú in collaboration with the GdT Climate Justice and Wikimedia Projects. It will take place from November 8 to 10, 2024, in the city of Huaraz, Peru.
The main objectives of the event are:
- To build a common agenda among Wikimedia actors in Latin America and the Caribbean on climate change, sustainability, epistemic justice and knowledge equity as topics for impact.
- To open a space for dialogue between allies of the movement and organizers and volunteers of the Wikimedia Movement in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Advocate for open, free, and accessible content policies on issues related to the climate crisis and planetary health in Spanish, Portuguese, and indigenous languages, among organisations that document and communicate collective, indigenous, and natural rights.
- Strengthen a coalition of regional human rights activists within the Wikimedia movement committed to open and dynamic dialogue with indigenous communities and other environmental defenders of soil, water and biodiversity, actively listening to and understanding their knowledge needs.
Calendar
- 15 December 2023 to 1 February 2024: Survey on Conference participation
- 6 February 2024: Submission of application for Conference funding
- 20 May to 7 July 2024: Call for applications for full scholarships
- 24 May to 16 July 2024: Call for proposals for the programme
- July 15 to August 31, 2024: "Evaluation and notification of full scholarship recipients and program proposal selections."
Results
Final Report of the Conference:
List of articles in Diff published about the conference in Huaraz:
- Wikipédia, a soma de todo o conhecimento humano e não-humano (December 12, 2024)
- Shared Horizons: Reflections on the 2024 Peru-Huaraz Climate Justice Conference (December 13, 2024)
- A Wikimedia Conference in the Andes of Peru: Weaving networks of free and educational knowledge on environmental justice by listening to the communities of our territories (May 13, 2025)
- My journey as a volunteer with Wikimedians in Bolivia: experiences from collaboration, memory, and climate justice (June 18, 2025)
- Climate Justice, Indigenous Knowledge, Digitalization, Community Autonomy, Environmental Conflicts, and Decolonization – Report of the Rapporteurs of the Regional Conference in Huaraz, Peru (July 13, 2025)
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