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Liberia: Failure to Pass Land Law Could Plunge Nation Back Into Conflict - Activists
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 14 July 2016
Liberia's failure to pass a long-awaited law recognising the rights of rural communities to their ancestral lands could plunge the West African nation back into civil war, a… Read more »
Failure to Pass Liberia's Land Law Threatens Peace - Activists
The draft Land Rights Act, which would acknowledge customary rights to land, was submitted to the Senate in 2014.
More than half of Liberia's 4.3 million people live on land held under customary tenure, which provides traditional rights to land but is not secured or recognised by legal title, said the United States Agency for International Development.
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Liberia: Failure to Pass Land Rights Act Threatens Peace - Civil Society
CSO Working Group, 14 July 2016
Eighteen influential Liberian civil society organizations warned today that efforts to forge a lasting peace are in jeopardy, threatened by the failure of Liberia's… Read more »
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CSO Working Group, 14 July 2016
We, the Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Working Group on Land Rights in Liberia, call on the legislature to immediately pass the 2014 version of the Land Rights Act (LRA) to… Read more »
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