Happy Heroes day. The Commission celebrated the Heroes day with environment defenders, Ethnic Minority Groups and Women with disabilities. The engagement themed: Development of engagement framework on inclusive climate leadership, policy and climate negotiations for indigenous communities, women and youth. The Commission appreciates that climate change affect every aspect of human life. The adverse effects of climate adversely affect vulnerable communities, exacerbates inequalities. Equally, Vulnerable groups such as impoverished communities, rural farmers, and displaced populations often degrade their local environments out of absolute necessity rather than choice. The Commission assured the participants of its commitment to ensure climate justice for indigenous communities and other vulnerable persons through monitoring, evaluation and ensuring that policies, laws plans programs l, activities, practices l, traditions, cultures and usages of environment are compliant with equal opportunities and affirmative action. #EqualOpportunitiesForAll

Last Thursday was the third foundational session in the Grassroots Justice Network Academy Leadership Program. More than 300 justice defenders tuned in live to learn how to make the legal empowerment cycle (know law, use law, shape law) “turn” over time. At the beginning of the session, participants placed one word in the chat to describe the current system of laws and government—and the results were bleak. After discussing how to change those systems so that they are just, fair, and actually serving their citizens, though, the mood shifted. This shift was largely because of @NamatiKenya’s Aisha Khagai’s inspiring presentation on how community paralegals in Kenya walk with communities to secure identity documents. Her strong message that learning and leadership can fuel a movement resonated with many of the other practitioners on the call. You can be inspired, too, by seeing the #MyIDMyRight campaign in action: - X: x.com/myidmyright - TikTok: tiktok.com/@myidmyright #GrassrootsJustice #PowerOfLearning