by WebMaster | Sep 20, 2022 | Cases/PILIWA Members, Guinea, Home Slider
Survivors of an August 2012 attack against the village of Zoghota, Guinea by state security forces organized a press conference last month on the 10-year anniversary of the attack to demand that the Republic of Guinea comply with an order issued by the ECOWAS Court...
by Communications | Sep 1, 2022 | Cases/PILIWA Members, Home Slider
Published by the Daily Times Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA), a non-profit making organisation, is spearheading the implementation of Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP) in all the 34 key towns in the Fanteakwa South district as part of efforts to...
by WebMaster | Apr 5, 2022 | Cases/PILIWA Members, Home Slider
The Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West Africa (PILIWA) is a professional network of West African lawyers, legal practitioners, and other advocates who use law to promote social justice. We share a commitment to using the law to protect the rights of...
by WebMaster | Jul 2, 2021 | Home Slider, Sierra Leone
In March 2021, members of the Marginalized Affected Property Owners (MAPO), a community-based association in Kono District, Sierra Leone, finally learned what a decibel is. Of course, as residents of communities that abuts the giant Koidu Kimberlite Mine, whose...
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 | Nov 10, 2020 | Guinea, Home Slider
ABUJA, NIGERIA – 10 NOVEMBER 2020 – For over eight years, the people of Zoghota in southern Guinea have been seeking justice for the massacre that devastated their village. Today, they can finally celebrate a ruling from the regional ECOWAS Court of Justice declaring...
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