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Why is the World Heritage Committee failing to uphold Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area?
The Tanzanian government has been kicking the Maasai off their land, while claiming that these are “voluntary relocations”.
 • Chris Lang
Why the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania “cannot be a World Heritage Site and an eviction zone”
Open letter from the Oakland Institute to the World Heritage Committee.
 • Chris Lang
The World Heritage Committee must oppose the eviction of Indigenous Maasai from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The World Heritage Committee meets in South Korea next week and the fate of the Maasai of Ngorongoro hangs in the balance.
 • Chris Lang
UN experts urge Tanzania’s government to stop evictions of Maasai Indigenous communities from Ngorongoro Conservation Area
“Conservation efforts must not come at the expense of human rights.”
 • Chris Lang
Sham Presidential Commissions in Tanzania recommend mass evictions of Indigenous Maasai from Ngorongoro Conservation Area
“If these extremely biased and reckless recommendations are implemented, it will be the end of our people in Ngorongoro.”
 • Chris Lang
Tanzania must respect the rights of Maasai Indigenous People living in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The Oakland Institute calls on the Tanzanian government to recognise Maasai human rights and land rights.
 • Chris Lang
“Like Apartheid.” Maasai in Ngorongoro Conservation Area protest against forced evictions and loss of basic rights
The government has removed the Ngorongoro division from the voters’ register, denying the Maasai the right to vote.
 • Chris Lang
“This will finish us”. Conservation, trophy hunting, and tourism is destroying Maasai livelihoods and culture in northern Tanzania
A superb article in The Atlantic reveals the impact of government policies on the Maasai.
 • Chris Lang
In the name of conservation: The Tanzanian government is escalating its campaign of violence and evictions against Indigenous People
The Oakland Institute has a new Urgent Alert about the situation in Tanzania.
 • Chris Lang
Three Members of European Parliament denied entry to Tanzania to investigate continued human rights abuses against the Maasai
One day before the mission, Tanzania said it had decided to “defer this visit to a later date”.
 • Chris Lang
Charges against Maasai in Loliondo, Tanzania dropped; “Their only ‘crime’ was exercising their right to protest while security forces tried…
The Maasai living in Loliondo and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania continue to face threats of evictions from their land and serious human…
 • Chris Lang
This is what 30×30 will look like: “The government is happy for injustices done to our people”. The East African Court of Justice turns a…
Human rights abuses are taking place against the Maasai in the name of conservation and elite trophy hunting.
 • Chris Lang
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