Note: The time and location of this event have changed.  It will now take place online at 9:00 AM. 

In recognition of her advocacy, Promise Mabilo was selected as the 2026 recipient of the Bright Award for Environmental Sustainability. Join the online event for panel discussion highlighting Promise’s work.

In 2019, South African communities and NGOs brought the landmark “Deadly Air” case, arguing that decades of unchecked industrial pollution in the Highveld region violated the constitutional right to an environment not harmful to health and well-being — a claim that was upheld by the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2025. Join Stanford experts and two of the case’s key architects — Promise Mabilo, 2026 Bright Award winner and founder of the Vukani Environmental Justice Movement in Action, and Palesa Madi, Deputy Director at the Centre for Environmental Rights — to discuss how grassroots organizing and legal strategy combined to secure this historic ruling, what’s happening on the ground now, and what this all means for environmental justice movements worldwide.