The 2024 WikiForHumanRights campaign opened new knowledge and spaces for more learning in Wikimedia User Group Nigeria/Anambra Network. Introduction It all started with Anambra Network collaboratin…

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WikiForHumanRights 2025 Virtual Launch flyer Snapshot of W4HR 2025 virtual launch in Nigeria Beginning of the Campaign: A Virtual Launch Uniting Nigeria’s Wikimedia Communities for the Wikiforhuman…

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In July 2022, the United Nations General Assembly affirmed that every human being has the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. This declaration set a global reminder of the urgen…

In July 2022, the United Nations General Assembly affirmed that every human being has the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. This declaration set a global reminder of the urgent need to protect environmental health and this year’s **WikiForHumanRights** campaign echoed that call loudly. Under the theme **“Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now,”** the 2025 campaign placed a spotlight on the importance of a _just energy transition_. It emphasized how cleaner, renewable energy systems play a critical role in reducing air pollution and minimizing the harmful effects of traditional energy sources on human health. ## A Photo Walk for Change: Capturing Ghana’s Energy Story As part of the global campaign, our community in Ghana organized a photo walk in Accra to visually document the country’s evolving energy landscape. The activity aimed to support advocacy for green energy while enriching Wikimedia Commons with high-quality, open-access images. We explored various locations across the city, capturing diverse forms of energy both traditional and renewable. By the end of the walk, we gathered **over 150 images** , all of which have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons to support global knowledge-sharing. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Energy_Transition_in_Ghana ## What We Captured The images collected highlight the wide spectrum of Ghana’s energy ecosystem, including: * Mini-grid installations * Solar PV systems * Mini gas stoves * Gas cookers * Electric vehicles (EVs) * Electric motorbikes (EBs) * Fuel stations * Electric vehicle charging points * Energy institutions * Solar panels ## Why These Images Matter All images from the campaign are now available on Wikimedia Commons as free, open-access resources. They will support Wikipedians and content creators globally by illustrating articles on: * Energy transition * Climate change * Air pollution * Environmental health * Renewable energy technologies * Ghana’s national energy efforts By making these visuals publicly available, the campaign helps tell a powerful story: Ghana is taking measurable steps toward a more sustainable and equitable energy future. ## What We Observed During the Photo Walk During the photo walk, we observed a growing presence of **electric vehicles (EVs)** and **electric bikes (EBs)** in Ghana. This development marks a positive step toward cleaner transportation options. However, the number of **charging stations** across the country remains limited, posing a challenge to the widespread adoption of electric mobility. These observations reinforce the urgent need for broader policy action, public awareness, and collaborative investment to accelerate Ghana’s clean energy transition. ## Conclusion: Advancing the Right to Clean Energy The **WikiForHumanRights – Just Energy Transition in Ghana** campaign successfully amplified the conversation around Ghana’s renewable energy progress. Through the power of visual storytelling, we contributed valuable resources that will help educate, inform, and inspire global audiences. While it is encouraging to see more renewable technologies and electric vehicles emerging, the journey toward a fully sustainable energy system requires continued commitment especially in expanding EV charging infrastructure and strengthening clean energy policies. Access to clean, sustainable energy is not just a development priority, it is a fundamental human right essential for the health and well-being of all.

During Wikimania in Nairobi, the Working Group on Climate Justice and Wikimedia projects organized two activities on the topic of “Information Integrity on Climate Change”. The first activity was a Pre-Conference Day, that included a closed space between organizers of the Wiki for Human Rights campaign mainly from Africa and Latin America, and an activity at UNEP HQ in Nairobi to have a specific panel on the topic. We also hosted a meetup of climate change & WikiForHumanRights organizers. Later, we organized a panel discussion to share some of the insights we gathered at the Pre-Conference session. These meetings helped us advance a South-South collaboration for strengthening the WikiForHumanRights campaign and continuing the growing work in the movement of documenting climate change. These spaces created three main takeaways: * We identified that framing our strategies, such as local or regional campaigns, in the framework of “information integrity on climate change” allows us to better connect with the interest of international partners and allies. * We built an understanding among Latin America and Africa organizers on how we want to make sure climate change topics are accessible in local communities in languages and ways they can understand. Wikimedia projects offer a way of collaborating together beyond geographical boundaries. South-South collaboration can allow organizers to not only bring their local languages, but more importantly, the local perspectives and the worldviews that different cultures have around the relationship between humans and their environment. * We agreed to continue the momentum for innovation and global collaboration on Wikimedia organizing around climate and other environmental issues. The future-thinking exercises showed powerful ideas that could be implemented in campaigns and strategies, and could be further developed in other spaces (such as prototyping sessions). There is interest and desire to keep on working on these topics by community organizers. ## The Pre-Conference: enhancing South-South collaboration The goal of the Pre-Conference was to explore how the Wikimedia communities from the Global South are building trustworthy information online on climate change from local and regional perspectives. We also wanted to connect with the larger ecosystem of stakeholders, by creating awareness on how the Wikimedia communities are a fundamental part of promoting and protecting information integrity on climate change in the digital ecosystem. For building those South-South bridges, we needed to root our practices in the energy and experiences of our own territories. For this, Olga Paredes from Wikimedistas de Bolivia and Jesed Mateo from WikiAcción Perú helped prepare an offering, a way to celebrate and connect with the Pachamama (Earth Mother) that comes from the traditions of the indigenous peoples of the Andes. People were asked to bring a special object, memory or symbol from their communities, and share it with everyone as part of the energy they were bringing to the table (dressed with an aguayo with a world map on it). “It is the first time that I see something like this in a Wikimedia space, it was very moving and valuable”, said one of the participants. Jesed Mateo from WikiAcción Perú and Olga Paredes from Wikimedistas de Bolivia explain the offering activity. Photo by Muhammed amine benloulou CC BY SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. ## A landscape on information integrity on climate change One of the opportunities of conferences is to better understand how partners think about the issues we are facing on-wiki. We invited Faye Holder from Influencemap and Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) and Eric Wamugu and Alicia Olago from Code for Africa to help us frame the conversation around “information integrity on climate change”. What do we mean with the concept, and how does it connect to the work we’re doing with organizing a campaign around climate change and environmental issues? Eric explained the topics and ways in which mis/disinformation spreads, such as current events and local languages, and how Wikimedia projects help in counteracting some of those effects. Alicia then went into detail into the UN information integrity principles and then explained how they connect with the Wikimedia movement. Slide by Alicia Olago, from Code for Africa, on the connection between information integrity principles and Wikimedia projects. Faye, on the other hand, presented a global overview on how the concept has evolved, particularly at the global scale, and how it connects to Wikimedia projects: Wikimedia is “both a _source_ of information and an organisation with the ability _to source_ information.” She then reminded us that actors spreading dis/misinformation “are active, intentional and organised”, so therefore it is important that, to protect information integrity, movements organize themselves as well. ## Identifying problems and solutions, imagining the future After this broad overview and landscape, we wanted participants to think about the problems and solutions we face as community organizers. For that, we brought a methodology known as the “problem tree”, where in groups, people have to identify the causes of a problem (the roots) and its effects and impacts (the branches). For this exercise, we proposed a broad statement: “We live in a polluted information ecosystem that prevents progress on important climate change issues”. People identified in the roots problems such as “language barriers”, “poor communication of data”, “mismatch between how science is communicated and how is consumed by local communities”, “fossil fuel interests, elite capture, and corporate campaigns”, “technological barriers”, and “not situating information on the local context”. As for the impacts, people identified “lack of climate policy”, “entrenched beliefs and polarization”, “ignoring or not applying relevant information”, “information not being useful”, “extractivism in local economies”. At this stage of the exercise, some of the groups started presenting solutions as well! Problem tree, based on the share back from all the groups. Following this exercise, we asked participants to do a bit of future thinking. Based on everything they had shared, we asked them to imagine that it was 2028, in a scenario where “open knowledge communities and platforms, including Wikimedia, are recognized as a great source of information for climate change, from policy makers to frontline communities. Our model is considered an antidote against disinformation.” We gave them magazines, paper scraps, stamps and other fun & engaging stationery items to build their stories. How did we get there? What did we do to create that future? They had to put together their own magazine in twenty minutes. The results of the magazines were stunning, considering how little time they had. People decided to focus on different aspects of the solutions, including more engagement with indigenous language, human-machine collaboration, fact checking, more access to information technologies, more awareness campaigns (such as international days or engagement with partners outside of the Wikimedia ecosystem), and more openness towards other ways of sharing knowledge and information, such as oral knowledges. ## Information integrity at UNEP HQ Lastly, after lunch, we went to UNEP, the United Nations Environmental Programme offices, to have a panel with experts from UNEP and participants from our group. There, Winnie Kabintie from the Wikimedians of Kenya User Group provided an overview of the Wiki for Human Rights Campaign in the African context. Later, we moved to a panel with Faye Holder (Influencemap & CAAD), Eric Wamugu and Alicia Olago (Code for Africa), Evelin Heidel (Wikimedistas de Uruguay & Working Group on Climate Justice and Wikimedia Projects), and Mirey Atallah (UNEP). The panel was moderated by Bingying Liu, Communication Lead for Special Events, Communication Division, UNEP. Participants from the workshop at UNEP HQ. Photo by Guillermo Carlos Gómez, CC BY SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. There, some of the challenges that we had talked about in the first half of the day emerged again, such as the differences in producing science and reports, and communicating it to the broader public; the language gaps and language barriers that exist to access relevant knowledge; the corporate capture of the information ecosystem, and the different ways in which communities can help tackling these issues. Overall, it was a productive conversation to help create a framework for the Wiki for Human Rights campaign that aligns with the international conversation that multilateral and civil society organizations are having on the topic. One of the participants expressed after the meeting: “I really enjoyed the Pre-Conference Day, but the most important thing for me was the meeting at UNEP HQ. This is our opportunity to work with them and make South-South collaboration a reality. We haven’t reached an agreement yet, but I feel there’s a lot of willingness to collaborate. We need to keep on showing up, and that’s the decision we took”. Finally, UNEP officers were kind enough to show us UNEP HQ campus, a beautiful setting where participants took a lot of photos. ## Coda: an organizers’ meetup Lastly, the group present at the Pre-Conference session felt that time wasn’t enough! So we organized a meetup to exchange ideas on how to organize the (soon to be renamed) Wiki for Human Rights campaign in 2026. People identified the value of the campaign in their local context, and signaled the importance of keeping it growing in the upcoming years as an example of South-South collaboration. We are thankful to all the energy that organizers, allies and partners brought to this conversation at Wikimania 2025. We’re especially grateful to the support of Wikimedia Foundation staff Felix Nartey, Brisa Ceccon and Euphemia Uwandu. We also would like to thank CAAD, UNEP HQ and Code for Africa for their time, support and contributions to make this event happen. And finally, to this year’s Wikimania COT, who thought this was an important topic to discuss at Wikimania! We look forward to collaborating with all of you for 2026’s on climate change & environmental issues campaign.

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Викимедија Србије се по шести пут заредом прикључила глобалној кампањи #WikiForHumanRights. Кампања има за циљ повећање видљивости садржаја о људским правима, а ове године се фокусира на право на здраву и одрживу животну средину. Боље знање о људским правима и животној средини помаже друштву да разуме важност ових тема и подстиче на активизам. Чланак Завршен је шести маратон о људским правима и животној средини се појављује прво на Викимедија Србије.

Викимедија Србије се по шести пут заредом прикључила глобалној кампањи #WikiForHumanRights. Кампања има за циљ повећање видљивости садржаја о људским правима, а ове године се фокусира на право на здраву и одрживу животну средину. Боље знање о људским правима и животној средини помаже друштву да разуме важност ових тема и подстиче на активизам. Чланак Завршен је шести маратон о људским правима и животној средини се појављује прво на Викимедија Србије.

Викимедија Србије се по шести пут заредом прикључила глобалној кампањи #WikiForHumanRights. Кампања има за циљ повећање видљивости садржаја о људским правима, а ове године се фокусира на право на здраву и одрживу животну средину. Боље знање о људским правима и животној средини помаже друштву да разуме важност ових тема и подстиче на активизам. Чланак Завршен је шести маратон о људским правима и животној средини се појављује прво на Викимедија Србије.

Викимедија Србије сe шести пут заредом придружује глобалној кампањи #WikiForHumanRights. Кампања има за циљ повећање видљивости садржаја о људским правима, а ове године се фокусира на право на здраву и одрживу животну средину. На Википедији на српском ће бити реализована у виду уређивачког маратона који ће трајати од 28. јула до 4. августа. Чланак Придружите се уређивачком маратону о људским правима и животној средини се појављује прво на Викимедија Србије.

Викимедија Србије сe шести пут заредом придружује глобалној кампањи #WikiForHumanRights. Кампања има за циљ повећање видљивости садржаја о људским правима, а ове године се фокусира на право на здраву и одрживу животну средину. На Википедији на српском ће бити реализована у виду уређивачког маратона који ће трајати од 28. јула до 4. августа. Чланак Придружите се уређивачком маратону о људским правима и животној средини се појављује прво на Викимедија Србије.

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