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 Jonathan Kaufman | Jan 29, 2021 | Côte d'Ivoire, Home Slider
Similimi in Abuja, 29 January 2021 – Frustrated by years of land loss, environmental destruction and stalled promises of relocation, the people of Similimi Community in northeastern Côte d’Ivoire have filed suit against their own government at the ECOWAS Court...
by Jonathan Kaufman | Apr 11, 2019 | Côte d'Ivoire
The Université Alassane Ouattara in Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire, has launched the first ever university legal clinic in the country – and one of the first in Francophone Africa. In partnership with ACA, the Groupe de recherce et de plaidoyer sur les industries...
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