Community Statement – On 7 March 2024, the Richtersveld community embarked on a silent protest at their ancestral gravesites at Boegoebaai to challenge the Southern African government for the return of their land, stolen centuries ago.
Across East Africa, communal land rights are under threat from land grabs and increased exploitation of natural resources found on indigenous land, often without the free, prior, and informed consent of the custodians of that land.
The Vrywillige, Vooraf en Voordurende Ingeligte Toestemming (Free, Prior and Informed Consent) or VVVT Namakwaland is a social movement in Northern Cape, South Africa that brings together activists and community members from various towns and villages across Namaqualand. These communities share a long and painful history of land dispossession, which started in the late 1800s, and the…
Government of Liberia should be accountable for massive human rights violations, pollution of water sources, land, and natural resources of indigenous communities in Liberia.
Kebetkache Women Development & Resource Centre continues to amplify women’s voices in the struggle against unjust resource extraction and degradation of the environment by multinational corporations operating in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Read more…
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