Passionate about women’s rights globally & transforming the world through feminist leadership. Executive Director, ActionAid Australia. Views are my own
Sydney, Australia
Joined November 2013
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#TimetoLeaveX as feminists we have to reject the use of social media platforms to support misogyny, divisive politics, convicted felons and corporate greed.
Michelle Higelin retweeted
Climate finance is not charity, it’s an investment.
#ClimateAction is not optional, it’s an imperative.
Both are indispensable to a liveable world for all humanity and a prosperous future for every nation on Earth.
My remarks at #COP29: un.org/sg/en/content/sg/stat…
Michelle Higelin retweeted
ActionAid was one of the many co-plaintiffs in this case. This ruling is a disappointing setback for #ClimateJustice and for communities around the world who are least responsible for causing the climate crisis but bearing the brunt of the impacts.
abc.net.au/news/2024-11-12/s…
Michelle Higelin retweeted
Behind closed doors, a senior Israeli general admitted that the purpose of forcing Palestinians out of northern Gaza was to seize the land and never let them return -- another Nakba. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Michelle Higelin retweeted
The climate emergency is a story of avoidable injustice.
The rich cause the problem, the poor pay the highest price.
The most vulnerable are being abandoned to climate extremes.
We need climate justice. Now.
#COP29
Michelle Higelin retweeted
2/2. 📢At #COP29 —ahead of negotiations on the New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG)— civil society demands that the #GlobalNorth🏭 pay their #ClimateDebt 🔥🌊⛈️🌪️ at US$ 5 trillion a year!💰
Michelle Higelin retweeted
1/2. “Who is paying for #Mitigation 🏭 , #Adaptation and #LossAndDamage 🔥? Not developed countries 🚫! Developing countries are paying ✅! Thats why we are sending the #GlobalNorth an invoice for US$ 5 trillion💰a year for #ClimateFinance!” @1TeresaAnderson of @ActionAid at #COP29.
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❗ #COP29 ❗ Flora Vano from ActionAid Vanuatu is in Baku to send a message to global leaders that countries like #Vanuatu are bearing the brunt of climate impacts despite doing the least to cause the climate crisis and urgently need #ClimateFinance to adapt and mitigate.
Michelle Higelin retweeted
Dear RICH countries! 💵
This #COP29, we need you to put your money where your mouth is!
Real #ClimateFinance is urgently needed on the front lines! #COP29 #ClimateJusticeNow
We have just unveiled an urgent invoice. It’s time for rich countries to pay up 💰
Michelle Higelin retweeted
We are proud to be part of this open letter to Australian Parliamentarians seeking urgent leadership to ensure the future and security of @UNRWA!
Today, ACFID alongside 26 development, humanitarian and affiliated agencies have sent an open letter to Australian Parliamentarians seeking urgent leadership to ensure the future and security of @UNRWA.
Read our media release here 👇
acfid.asn.au/australian-huma…
Michelle Higelin retweeted
Proud to have our co-chair @HigelinMichelle at #COP29 in Baku with Sandra Creamer, championing #JustTransitions for First Nations. Australia must lead with bold, equitable climate action for women and communities on the frontlines. #WPS #ClimateJustice #IndigenousRights #COP29AUS
Michelle Higelin retweeted
❗#COP29 ❗Our Executive Director Michelle Higelin is at COP29 in Azerbaijan right now, and she has a message for Australia: "Wealthy countries must step up on climate finance!"
#ClimateFinance #FundOurFuture
Michelle Higelin retweeted
This project is so important. Ni-Vanuatu women need electricity for cooking, to charge digital devices, and for lighting. But up to 90% of people in rural areas of Vanuatu have no access to the electricity grid. Thanks for your support @AusHCVanuatu, @dfat & @PowerWellsOrg! 👏
We're powering up remote communities across Vanuatu with sustainable energy & jobs, thanks to two #AIFFP Off-Grid Renewable Energy Partnerships that officially launched this week.
Excited to be providing clean & affordable solar power to remote communities & tackling e-waste 🇻🇺🤝🇦🇺
Michelle Higelin retweeted
"The escalating crisis means that someone is going to have to pay at the end of the day. The question at #COP is whether the bill lands at the door of those that are causing the damage, or those that suffer it." #COP29 #ClimateFinance #FundOurFuture
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Michelle Higelin retweeted
"I couldn’t possibly tell you in such a short time how many ways people in Gaza can be killed right now: buildings falling, disease, bombs, starvation.
There’s absolutely no hope right now: people are suffering."
@UNWateridge tells @BBC about the dire humanitarian crisis in Northern #Gaza, with families cut off from food, water, and aid for over a month.
@ActionAid Vanuatu kicks off Disability Localisation Summit with 90 women with disabilities & allies to build an agenda for gender responsive & inclusive #DRR. @ActionAid_aus is proud to support WITTT Sunshine a movement of 1000 women with disabilities
It was so amazing to join the launch!
A grassroots movement of 9,000 ni-#Vanuatu women have launched the Women I Tok Tok Tugeta federation in Port Vila, dedicated to supporting women’s leadership in preparing their communities for #climate disasters in the face of #gender inequalities.
actionaid.org.au/resources/9…
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“It is absolutely terrifying.
You can hear children crying, people screaming, people running for their lives, and it has been nonstop for 24 hours. People are trapped."
@UNWateridge tells @AJEnglish that people in #Gaza are facing relentless and continuous bombardments with nowhere safe to go.
Racism is alive and well in this country. I was waiting for a bus in Redfern and because 2 young Aboriginal people were waiting at the stop with me, the driver kept going - Aboriginal politician calls out racism- ABC News @syd_transport apple.news/A5A6Dirh2TwmZp36w…