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7 Août 2018
In a letter dated July 20, 2018, GVL withdrew from the RSPO based on what the company termed as ‘time and space’ to implement its sustainable plan other than the RSPO recommendation.
Earlier this year, the RSPO complaint committee found GVL in non-compliance with several elements to the RSPO…
3 Août 2018
Liberians displaced by the civil war are gradually returning home, filled with dreams of rebuilding their shattered country. Many have invested their savings in land, upon which they plan to construct new homes and businesses, only to discover that rampant corruption has been allowed to fester…
20 Juin 2018
Date: 18 juin 2018
Source: Farmlandgrab, Commodafrica
Traiter la déforestation via les chaines d’approvisionnement des commodités c’est l’ambition du Partenariat pour une croissance saine (Good Growth Partnership “Taking Deforestation out of Commodity Supply Chains”) lancé la semaine dernière…
20 Juin 2018
"Laws on marriage, divorces, property rights, child custody and land ownership all contain powerful clauses that marginalise our women in favour of men"
NAIROBI, June 20 - A promise by Liberian President George Weah to change laws that discriminate against women is spurring campaigners to push…
31 Mai 2018
The Liberia Law Society has been conducting series of training workshops in Nimba County on the newly adopted Land Rights Act and the Inheritance Law.
Since the enactment of the law, most citizens are yet to know the details, because there has been no interpretation or consultation from lawmakers,…
7 Mai 2018
NAIROBI - Chiefs across Liberia are petitioning lawmakers while activists prepare for a sit-in protest in the nation's capital as they push to secure ancestral land rights, regarded as key to averting renewed bloodshed in the resource-rich country.
About 100 women marched on the presidential…
4 Mai 2018
By Mary Hodgett (TIMBY)
In Liberia, two small communities are fighting to protect their homes, and land rights against a powerful wave of environmentally destructive industries.
Recognising the role that corruption plays in facilitating land grabbing and conflict, Transparency International (…
17 Avril 2018
Monrovia - Catholic Bishops Conference of Liberia (CABICOL) has said that the Land Rights Bill is crucial and should properly be reviewed before it is passed into law.
CABICOL said the bill must protect the rights of women and youth to own, manage and transfer land; contain accountable safeguard…
27 Février 2018
Monrovia – The race for land ownership is one of big issues in Liberia that has been engulfed with multiplicity of problems ranging from insecure land tenure forms and rights; lack of land use database for state, private, and customary lands; weak land administration and management; inadequate…
22 Février 2018
Date: 21 février 2018
Source: Farmlandgrab
Au Liberia, les réformes en cours devraient enfin permettre à la population de jouir de ses terres. Mais, pas si facile en raison de beaucoup de pesanteurs
Morris Kidir montre les frondaisons vertes de jeunes palmiers à huile : si les habitants de son…
21 Février 2018
Morris Kidir gestures at a wide expanse of dark-green land he says was earmarked for a school or clinic in his northern Liberian village, now covered in young oil palm trees.
In October last year, he recalls, workers from Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby arrived at the plot and began filling in…
19 Septembre 2017
Monrovia – The Civil Society Organization (CSO) working group on Land Rights in Liberia, in collaboration with the National Civil Society Council of Liberia has alarmed that the current Land Rights Act passed by the House of Representatives and currently before the Senate is not in the interest of…