International Land and Forest Tenure Facility (TF) and Liberian partners officially launched a three-year project in Liberia on Tuesday, March 21, 2023. The project is phase II of the TF support to Liberia and is titled: Keeping the Promise, expanding and strengthening community land and forest governance for a sustainable future. It was launched at a local hotel in Monrovia.
Amsterdam, Duazon, Washington, February 23, 2023: Golden Agri-Resources (GAR), one of the world’s largest palm oil producers, has withdrawn from the High Carbon Stock Approach Group, (HCSA Group).
Amsterdam and Duazon: Sustainable Development Institute (SDI) Liberia and Milieudefensie expose the ongoing social and environmental harms in Maryland Oil Palm Plantation (MOPP) in Liberia.
ACCA and its partners commended the African Union and its partners on the successful convening of the first African Business and Human Rights Forum held in Accra, Ghana from 11 to 13 October 2022.
They appreciated that the Forum gathered participants from the continent and beyond, who have an interest in the attainment of human rights in the context of business operations.
SDI takes interns and volunteers to support specific projects. Interns have held both short and long-term positions and have provided assistance across a broad range of programme activities such as carrying out research, community outreach and mobilisation, policy development and advocacy campaigns.