Tanzania wants to evict Maasai for wildlife – but they’re fighting back
Community members are on a campaign to get international donors to defund their government and stop rights violations.
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Community members are on a campaign to get international donors to defund their government and stop rights violations.
The World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania that caused the suffering of tens of thousands of villagers, according to a U.S.-based rights group that has long urged the global lender to take such action.
U.S. sanctions imposed in 2022 against Nicaragua’s mining industry were supposed to help combat a bloody wave of human rights abuses against local communities. But several years later, some aspects of the sanctions still aren’t being enforced, allowing mining companies to continue operations and even expand into new parts of the country.
Tanzania’s government through its Minister of State in the Office of the Vice President (Union and Environment), Selemani Jafo said that the country is on track to raise USD 1 Billion through carbon trading.
At a time of increasingly adverse weather conditions related to climate change, there is growing urgency of adopting protective policies towards small farmers and pastoralists. Unfortunately, it is in these difficult conditions that the Tanzanian government has been adopting policies which are further increasing the difficulties of small...
U.S. sanctions imposed in 2022 against Nicaragua’s mining industry were supposed to help combat a bloody wave of human rights abuses against local communities. But several years later, some aspects of the sanctions still aren’t being enforced, allowing mining companies to continue operations and even expand into new parts of the country.
Papua New Guinea (henceforth as PNG) is resources rich and this ecological diversity could lead to actuating the Resource Curse Theory. Land as a component of nature and a pivot of economic centrism in case of PNG is worth evaluation. The Land Reforms in PNG entail a long story of upheavals and downplays especially against a highly mercurial...
In a new report, Nicaragua’s Gold Rush, the Oakland Institute exposes how, despite US sanctions on Nicaragua’s gold mining sector, the industry has boomed, fueled by foreign business interests. The US is the primary destination, accounting for a staggering 79 percent of total...