From left to right: Marcos Filardi, People’s Health Movement, Argentina; Paula Gioi, La Via Campesina, Germany; Mariann Bassey, Friends of the Earth International, Nigeria; Jana Nakhal, World March of Women, Lebanon; Herman Kumara, World Forum of Fisher People’s, Sri Lanka; and Chintaka Rajpakse, La Via Campesina, Sri Lanka
From May 5 to 9, delegates from Nigeria, Gambia, Panama, Peru, Mongolia, Turkey, Uruguay, India, Brazil, Germany, Australia, Lebanon, Colombia, the United States, Croatia, Italy, Argentina, France, UK, and Sri Lanka, representing more than 50 organizations came together to set the stage for political debates and convergence processes ahead of the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum.
This international forum connected with the urgent struggles in Sri Lanka, opposing debt and an economic model that perpetuates inequality, while advocating for people’s power and dignity.
In Negombo, the Forum also provided grassroots actors the opportunity to lay the groundwork for September’s global forum on Systemic Transformation
This third edition of the forum, which will gather more than 500 participants from around the world, will be hosted at the National Institute for Co-operative Development (NICD) in September 2025.
Rooted in food sovereignty, the defense of the commons, the right to health, climate justice, feminism, social and solidarity economies, agroecology, and Indigenous knowledge, Nyéléni aims to spark a global paradigm shift in response to today’s economic, political, social, and environmental crises.
Sri Lanka, shaped by the violence of debt and the strength of popular resistance, is no random choice. After ousting a neoliberal regime, movements here are building alternatives and we’re here to build them together.
