#SolidarityDay ✊ South-South Solidarity in Action = Building Power Across Borders

For International Human Solidarity Day, we’re spotlighting what solidarity really means: showing up for each other across borders, through our connected struggles, and across generations. 🌍🤝

From 30 October to 1 November, our Founder Emilie Palamy Pradichit joined over 120 activists, artists, and movement leaders from 27 countries across the Global South at the South-South Social Movements Convergence in Cape Town, South Africa, hosted by Yiaga Africa and OSF Africa.

In true decolonial spirit, the gathering wove together powerful conversations, music, and art - creating space to exchange knowledge, build trust, and co-create tools to confront authoritarianism.

This is what solidarity looks like when it’s lived, shared, and built together! 💜✨

As Decolonial & Intersectional Feminists, we know that in a region facing shrinking civic space and rising transnational repression, solidarity must also be about collective care. During the gathering, Emilie spoke about what it takes to sustain movements:

“Authoritarian governments want to exhaust us. They want us to burn out… That’s why it’s so important for us to build feminist safety networks that welcome everyone.”

This spirit carried into one of the most powerful outcomes of the convergence: the South Social Movements Solidarity Pact, a concrete commitment to cross-border solidarity that goes beyond performative allyship and centers real, collective action. Manushya is deeply honoured to be part of the Reference Group that helped draft this Pact, alongside fellow movement leaders from across the Global South.

👇 Explore through the images to meet some of the courageous people behind the Gathering.

📖 Read more about the Convergence and its impact in this feature by The Daily Maverick: bit.ly/ManushyaAtSS

#WeAreManushyan ♾️ Equal Human Beings

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