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 | Sep 1, 2024 | Case Based Legal Support, Cases/PILIWA Members, Guinea
The Tribunal Judiciaire in Paris, France has begun hearing the case brought before it by the survivors of the 2012 massacre by state security forces in the village of Zogota in the West African country of Guinea. The hearing was inconclusive as the government of...
by Richard | Aug 28, 2024 | Case Based Legal Support, Cases/PILIWA Members, Guinea, Home Slider
Survivors of the 2012 massacre by state security forces in the village of Zogota in the West African country of Guinea are keeping their fingers crossed as hearing of their Exequatur suit begins today at the Tribunal Judiciaire in Paris, France. The stakes in this...
by Richard | Jul 17, 2024 | Case Based Legal Support, Cases/PILIWA Members, Home Slider, Nigeria
A member of ACA’s Public Interest Lawyering Initiative for West Africa (PILIWA), Courage Nsirimovu, has initiated pro bono legal steps to retrieve a car for a Nigerian widow, Pleasure Amadi, whose husband passed away on August 28, 2022, after a short illness. Madam...
by Richard | Jun 4, 2024 | Case Based Legal Support, Cases/PILIWA Members, Home Slider, Liberia
OPEN LETTER ON SOCFIN’S PROPOSED DIVESTMENT FROM SRC IN LIBERIA We, the undersigned, are Liberian, West African, and international civil society organizations, communities, and individuals concerned with the legacy of harm that the operations of the Salala Rubber...
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...
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