Items filtered by date: Thursday, 03 July 2025

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

A SADC regional seminar on the impacts of climate change on children began on 2 July 2025 in Cape Town, with Professor Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Deputy Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Head of the Children’s Rights Project at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), urging participants to confront the deep inequities and blind spots in climate action — and to imagine a continent “fit for children.”