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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.
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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.
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Chris Lang
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“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.
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Chris Lang
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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.
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Chris Lang
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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”.
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Chris Lang
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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…
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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.
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Chris Lang
Urgent call for international support to stop the Tanzanian government’s human rights violations against the Maasai:
“You can either be silent and complicit, or take a stand for justice, dignity and human rights.”
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Chris Lang
Fortress conservation threatens Maasai pastoralists in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area: “The Government is systematically starving us”
Maasai pastoralists have lived in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area bordering the Serengeti National Park for generations.
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Chris Lang
A new threat to the Maasai in Ngorongoro District of Tanzania
Over the past decade, Indigenous Maasai communities living in Ngorongoro District in Tanzania have faced a series of violent evictions. The government…
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Chris Lang
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