par Richard | Août 28, 2024 | Assistance juridique et judiciaire, 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...
par Richard | Juil 17, 2024 | Assistance juridique et judiciaire, 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...
par Richard | Juin 4, 2024 | Assistance juridique et judiciaire, 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...
par Richard | Juin 4, 2024 | Assistance juridique et judiciaire, 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...
par Richard | Mai 24, 2024 | Assistance juridique et judiciaire, 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...
par Richard | Mai 11, 2024 | Assistance juridique et judiciaire, 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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