by Richard | Apr 8, 2025 | Cases/PILIWA Members, Home Slider, Sierra Leone
Members of the Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West Africa (PILIWA), a regional movement of lawyers driven by social justice to serve threatened communities, have rounded up their conference in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It was a collaborative conference for...
by Richard | Nov 11, 2024 | Case Based Legal Support, Cases/PILIWA Members, Home Slider, Sierra Leone, What We Do
Members of the Marginalized Affected Property Owners Association (MAPO), a civil society group based in Kono in the Eastern Region of Sierra Leone, say they are unperturbed about the frequent adjournments of their case pending at the Court of Appeal in Freetown and...
by Richard | Aug 15, 2024 | Community-Driven Development, Home Slider, Sierra Leone, What We Do
Several women in the Sierra Leonean town of Koidu in the Kono District of the Eastern Region, have been sharing their testimonies about how their socio-economic lives have been transformed in the last few years following the disbursement of microloans to them under...
by Richard | Jun 4, 2024 | Case Based Legal Support, Cases/PILIWA Members, Home Slider, Sierra Leone
Lawyers for the Marginalized Affected Property Owners (MAPO), a community association seeking justice for harmful mining practices in Kono, Sierra Leone, concluded their marathon of argument before the Court of Appeal in Freetown last Thursday, May 30, 2024. The Court...
by Richard | May 24, 2024 | Case Based Legal Support, Cases/PILIWA Members, Home Slider, Sierra Leone
After several adjournments, on Tuesday May 21, 2024, the Sierra Leone Court of Appeal began hearing human rights claims that will determine whether community members can legally take on Koidu Limited, a multinational diamond mining company, for causing harm to their...
by Richard | May 11, 2024 | Case Based Legal Support, Home Slider, Sierra Leone
Kono community members in Sierra Leone and their civil society partners were alarmed by the result of an Appeals Court hearing on Thursday May 9, 2024, which produced yet another delay in their case against diamond-mining company Koidu Limited. The community members...
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