Bruno Fernandes Gomes joined Natural Justice as a Senior Programme Officer for the Affirming Rights Programme in December 2024. A Jurist, Photographer, Environmental and Climate Activist, Bruno was born in the Moamba district, Mozambique. In recent years, he has been associated with the Environmental Education Cooperative Repensar, initially as Legal Advisor and later as Programme Director.
He is a member of the Resilient 40 African Youth Network, established by Wilton Park, the Executive Agency of the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. Additionally, he serves as Mozambique’s delegate to the Youth for Climate platform, created by the Italian Government in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
He is a founding member of the Association for the Promotion of Social Inclusion of Youth and Diversities in Mozambique — INCLUSÃO, and a founding member of the Youth Advisory Council of Mozambique (CCJM) — France, also known as the Solution Generation.
He has participated in several international summits focusing on the environment and climate change. Among the most notable are the Pre-Cop26 Conference held in Milan, Italy, in 2021; the African Climate Weeks held in Libreville, Gabon, in 2022, and in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2023; as well as the first African Climate Summit, also held in Nairobi in 2023. He is a legal consultant with over five years of practice in labor, commercial, administrative, and environmental law.
Through photographic art, he has focused on social, political, environmental and cultural issues. In recent years, he has documented major political events in the country, with particular emphasis on peaceful marches, campaigns, and violent electoral demonstrations.
In February 2024, he held his first physical photography exhibition at the 16 Neto cultural space, supported by Swiss Cooperation. Titled “Symbiosis”, this exhibition presented a visual protest against the greenwashing strategies of major industrial corporations, exploring the intersection of human activity with environmental degradation and climate change.
