Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim (2015)

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is a Chadian civil rights activist. She is the coordinator of the Association des Femmes Peules Autochtones du Tchad (AFPAT). As a representative of indigenous people, she regularly takes part in the UN climate conferences.

Life

Ibrahim comes from the nomadic Mbororo community in Chad. She had the chance of going to school because her parents settled in the capital, N'Djamena ; her mother allowing her to go to school resulted in rejection from her father's family and her own family for the mother.

Act

Ibrahim describes that the climate crisis in Chad is not a problem of the future, but a cruel reality today. The Sahara continues to expand here, while the large inland waters are shrinking. This makes living conditions increasingly difficult due to droughts and the resulting conflicts. Indeed, the number of heat waves with temperatures as high as 50 ° C increased over time.

Ibrahim points out the connection between the climate crisis and the terrorist group Boko Haram . She said: “Boko Haram guarantees local people to survive where the government cannot. Climate change is creating more inequality, but at the same time it is becoming an international security problem here in Chad. "

Ibrahim published numerous articles in newspapers around the world. In 2019 she was also represented with a chapter in the manual When If Not We ( This Is Not A Drill ) of the climate activists of Extinction Rebellion .

In 2018 she was featured on the BBC series 100 Women . The US American Time magazine listed her in the article “Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change” in 2019 as one of 15 women who lead the fight against climate change.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chad: My community is disappearing . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , September 19, 2019. Accessed October 5, 2019.
  2. ↑ https://www.oxfam.de/ueber-uns/aktuelles/leben-ueberleben-klimazeugen-berichten
  3. ↑ https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2017/05/29/national-geographic-emerging-explorer-hindou-oumarou-ibrahim-raising-the-voice-of-indigenous-climate-knowledge/
  4. ↑ Climate change favors Boko Haram: Between ecological disaster and terror . In: taz , May 20, 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  5. ↑ Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change. Time, September 12, 2019, accessed January 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ibrahim, Hindou Oumarou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chadian civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century