by Richard | Apr 22, 2024 | Home Slider, Nigeria
The College of Law, Caleb University, Lagos, is collaborating with the Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West Africa (PILIWA) to groom its students in the act of public interest lawyering. As part of the grooming process PILIWA will facilitate the process to...
by Emyloia | Feb 27, 2024 | Guinea
The Board of Directors of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is exposing Guinean communities and the company’s shareholders to grave risks by approving a $6.2 billion investment in the Simandou iron project without adequately studying and mitigating environmental...
by Richard | Jan 30, 2024 | Cases/PILIWA Members, Côte d'Ivoire
What happened? The inhabitants of Similimi, a village in the sub-prefecture of Bondoukou, about 430 km from Abidjan in the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, mainly grew cashew nuts, planted other fruit trees, legumes and vegetables on plots of land before manganese...
by Richard | Dec 7, 2023 | Côte d'Ivoire
Residents of Similimi, a village in northeastern Côte d’Ivoire, are celebrating a decision of the ECOWAS Court of Justice finding the Ivorian government culpable of human rights violations in connection with destructive manganese mining on their traditional...
by Richard | Dec 7, 2023 | Nigeria
With the help of Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA), Nigerian lawyers are building new institutions that champion the fundamental human rights of West Africa’s poor and marginalized communities, especially those that are threatened by the destructive impacts...
by Richard | Dec 7, 2023 | Cases/PILIWA Members
Aggrieved community members of the Nigerian town of Aggah have taken Italian energy giant, Eni S.p.A., and its subsidiary, Nigerian Agip Oil Company Ltd. (NAOC), to court in Italy for relief from floods that have caused damage to the people’s lives and property for...
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