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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 herders with their cattle inside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area

This Human Rights Day, Stand with the Maasai to End Fortress Conservation

Friday, December 9, 2022

The Western conservation industry is advancing plans that threaten to eliminate the basic rights of millions of Indigenous Peoples around the world.

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

URGENT ALERT: Tanzanian Government Resorts to Cattle Seizures to Further Restrict Livelihoods of Maasai Pastoralists

In the News: The Maasai Land Struggle

Tanzanian Government's Sustained Campaign Against the Maasai in Loliondo and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Tanzanian Government Continues Violent Repression of the Maasai in Loliondo Despite Worldwide Condemnation

Call to Sever Ties with Tanzanian Government Over Latest Human Rights Abuses Against the Maasai

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Media

Tanzanian Maasai Visit Europe to Urge Action over Their Eviction from Their Lands

The Canary

Tanzania Forces the Maasai From Their Land To Make Way for Trophy Hunters and Tourists

Le Monde diplomatique

Reporter’s Notebook: The Crisis Nobody Knows About on the Kenya-Tanzania Border

The Border Chronicle

This Human Rights Day, Stand With the Maasai to End Fortress Conservation

Common Dreams

Tanzania Drops Murder Charges Against 24 Maasai Land Defenders

Grist

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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