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18/04/2024
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World Heritage Day: MISA calls on UNESCO to protect Maasai rights
On World Heritage Day, 18 April 2024, a group of organisations from Tanzania, the USA and Europe, including MISA (Maasai International Solidarity Alliance) to which CELEP belongs, called on UNESCO to end its complicity in human rights violations. UNESCO must remove sites from its list where human rights violations occur and listen to the local […]
07/03/2024
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International Women’s Day 8 March 2024
20/02/2024
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MISA condemns UNESCO mission to Ngorongoro, Tanzania
On 3–9 February 2024, a UNESCO mission investigated allegations of human rights violations against Maasai pastoralists in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), a World Heritage Site in northern Tanzania. The Tanzanian civil society and international organisations in MISA (Maasai International Solidarity Alliance), which includes CELEP, expressed serious concerns that the mission was not publicly announced […]
16/12/2023
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Maasai lawyer Joseph Oleshangay awarded Weimar Human Rights Prize
On 10 December 2023 – Human Rights Day – the Maasai lawyer Joseph Moses Oleshangay was awarded the Weimar Human Rights Prize at a ceremony in Weimar, Germany. He was part of the Maasai delegation that made an advocacy tour in Europe in May–June 2023 (see Maasai advocacy tour in Europe generates solidarity). Oleshangay has […]
15/12/2023
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EP calls on Tanzanian Government to halt evictions of Maasai
European Parliament calls on Tanzanian Government to halt its forcible evictions of Maasai communities On 14 December 2023, the European Parliament adopted an emergency resolution urging the Tanzanian Government to immediately halt ongoing forcible evictions of Maasai communities in the country’s Ngorongoro District. The Parliament calls on the Tanzanian Government to recognise and protect their […]