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On the 14th of November 2024, the EthicsLab attended the photo-documentary exhibition Guardians of Seed, Land, and Life: The Seed Research Journey of the Southern African Rural Women’s Assembly that was showing in the Cape Town Castle. The exhibition showcases the ‘herstories’ of rural women seed guardians in seven SADC countries: eSwatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The exhibition celebrates the quiet and silent yet powerful activism of the RWA seed guardians and the seeds they hold.

The third regional workshop of the Global Health Solidarity Project was successfully held in Brisbane, Australia, on 28-29 November 2024. The workshop brought together 25 participants to explore and enable theories and practices of solidarity and adjacent concepts in Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the wider Pacific.

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The GH-Solidarity Project participated in the Global Convening on Planetary Health and a Just Transition, organised by the Atlantic Institute and Dejusticia, held in Bogotá from October 14-18, 2024. This gathering aimed to foster alternative narratives, share knowledge, and strategise for a more harmonious relationship with nature. 

Wednesday, September 11th, 2024 - The Global Health Solidarity Project hosted their first forum titled “Solidarity – Concepts and Practices from Africa”. The forum aimed to discuss how solidarity is conceptualised and enacted, drawing on findings from workshops held in Africa, and a case study about ongoing work in the India-Nepal-Tibet region. Over 50 participants, including  researchers, public health practitioners and students from mostly sub-Saharan African countries attended.  

The Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health project held its third global team meeting on 11th July 2024 at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. This one-day hybrid event included partners and representatives from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Australia. The project’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Atuire Caesar, opened the meeting by presenting the overall progress. Each team then outlined their current and upcoming activities in line with the project's goals and discussed plans for the next twelve months, focusing on facilitating research uptake.  

On 10th July 2024, the Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health project team organised a workshop where global health practitioners discussed findings from the project’s consultative meetings conducted in Ghana and Guinea on the practice of solidarity in global health. 

 The workshop was part of the annual Oxford Global Health and Bioethics International Conference, which fosters multi-disciplinary debates and addresses ethical concerns in global health conception and implementation. 

Two members of our team, Dr. Samuel Asiedu (Research Coordinator) and Prof. Elysee Nouvet (Co-investigator) represented the Moving Beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health research team at the 17th World Congress of Bioethics in Doha, Qatar.  

Dr. Caesar Atuire’s election as President of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) was announced at the World Congress of Bioethics in Doha, Qatar on 3rd June 2024. Atuire becomes the 15th president of the IAB and the first black person to be appointed to this position. 

During his inaugural address, Dr. Atuire said, “The current world in which we are living is different from the world within which bioethics as a discipline was born...perhaps we need to we reinvent in order to address the challenges of this world in the next decades”