Date: 2 mai 2019  Source: Agence Ecofin Par: Espoir Olodo (Agence Ecofin) - Au Liberia, l’essor des plantations de palmier à huile n’a pas permis d’améliorer les conditions de vie des populations locales. C’est ce qu’a confié à Thomson Reuters, Alfred Brownell (photo), avocat libérien récipiendaire…

Date: 2 mai 2019  Source: Agence Ecofin Par: Espoir Olodo (Agence Ecofin) - Au Liberia, l’essor des plantations de palmier à huile n’a pas permis d’améliorer les conditions de vie des populations locales. C’est ce qu’a confié à Thomson Reuters, Alfred Brownell (photo), avocat libérien récipiendaire…

MONROVIA – Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI), a global non-governmental organization and its local partner, the National Housing Authority (NHA) have completed the first step in developing Voluntary Gender Responsive Relocation Policy Guidelines (VGRRPG) to provide a framework for planned…

Monrovia – A civil society organization, the Foundation for Community Initiatives (FCI), has begun a project to assist rural communities in Liberia to legalize their customary ownership of their lands. The Protection of Customary Collective Community Land Rights (P3CL) project, which began since…

Liberia is in the throes of finalising one of Africa’s most progressive land rights laws but its potential will be thwarted if women are excluded In the 42-year history of International Women’s Day, there have been huge advances in women’s rights across the world. But despite these strides, many…

A two-day meeting of the Transboundary Law Enforcement Technical Committee for the Tai-Grebo-Krahn-Sapo forest landscape from March 26-27, 2019, sponsored by USAID through the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation (WCF) and the West Africa Biodiversity and Climate Change ( WABiCC), has successfully ended in…

Areas allocated to rubber, oil palm and logging concessions cover around a quarter of Liberia’s total land mass. Liberian activists and the international community have warned that land disputes on oil palm concessions were becoming a time bomb for conflict in the country, and urging lawmakers to…

Monrovia – The Land Rights Law (LRL) is a milestone legal instrument, but if “gaps” within the law are not bridged and its “contradictions” to the Community Rights Law (CRL) of 2009 with Respect to Forest Lands not addressed, the law could undermine Liberia’s land reform process.  This is according…

  These are dark days if you care about justice. New estimates reveal that over 5 billion people live outside the protection of the law. These are people who can be driven from their land, intimidated by violence, and excluded from society. Against the backdrop of this staggering figure, community…

Liberia is in the throes of finalising one of Africa’s most progressive land rights laws but its potential will be thwarted if women are excluded   In the 42-year history of International Women’s Day, there have been huge advances in women’s rights across the world. But despite these strides,…

Monrovia – A three-day Experience and Lessons sharing workshop on a range of land tenure topics, including Land Administration Reforms, Customary Land Rights, Land Administration Systems, and Spatial Planning is being convened at a local hotel in Monrovia. Jointly organized by the Liberia Land…

A report released by Global Witness late last year alleges that Liberia’s forestry laws are being “hijacked” by logging companies. These logging companies can potentially put vast areas of Liberia’s remaining rainforests at risk of large-scale deforestation. There’s historical precedent for the…