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Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever

Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever is based on field research, never publicly-seen-before documents, and an in-depth investigation into Tanzania’s land laws. This report is the first to reveal the complicity between Tanzanian government officials and foreign companies as they use conservation laws to dispossess the Maasai, driving them into smaller and smaller areas and creating a stifling map of confinement. The...

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Kuipoteza Serengeti, Ardhi Ya Wamasai Iliyopaswa Kudumu Milele

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Maasai villagers, their faces are hidden for their protection. Credit: Oakland Institute

Tanzania's Withdrawal from the African Court on Human and People's Rights

Monday, December 9, 2019 Anuradha Mittal

A Wrong Move for the Country and for the Continent Maasai villagers, their faces are hidden for their protection. Credit: Oakland Institute When domestic mechanisms fail and there is no rule of law, independent regional and international mechanisms are essential to ensure accountability and human rights for all. This December 10th, recognized internationally as Human Rights Day, it is necessary to challenge Tanzanian President John Magufuli...

Entrance to a new boma built by the displaced Maasai. Credit: The Oakland Institute

This Human Rights Day, Stand Up for the Rights of the Maasai in Tanzania

Monday, December 10, 2018 Elizabeth Fraser

Basic rights – to life, security, food and housing, freedom from arbitrary arrest, and more – are also being systematically denied to the indigenous Maasai pastoralists in the Loliondo and Ngorongoro regions of northern Tanzania, and the situation is critical.

Press Releases and Public Statements

UNESCO and Tanzanian Government's Plan Threatens the Continued Survival of the Maasai

The Dangerous Legacy of Fortress Conservation

Maasai Villagers Win a Major Victory in the East African Court of Justice in Case Against Tanzanian Government

Kuipoteza Serengeti, Ardhi Ya Wamasai Iliyopaswa Kudumu Milele

Repression Intensifies against Maasai Villagers in Tanzania as They Seek Justice Against Decades of Human Rights Abuses at the East African Court of Justice

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Displacement and Dispossession in Tanzania: How "Conservation" is Destroying the Maasai

World Rainforest Movement

The Maasai Score a Legal Victory in their Struggle to Protect their Way of Life

Amandla!

Les Guerriers Massaï : une Guerre Pour la Préservation

Maze Magazine

Les « Masai » Chassés de Leur Terre

Les Echos

Maasai Evicted from their Lands to Make Space for Trophy Tourism in the Serengeti

LifeGate

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Documentation and Contracts

UNESCO Ngorongoro Conservation Area Report, Related Documents

Tanzania Government Documents

Tanzania Legal Discovery Documents

Tanzania Lawsuit - Legal Documents