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Liberia: New Program Tackles Deforestation, Human Rights Abuses
Liberia: New Program Tackles Deforestation, Human Rights Abuses
Participants following the launch of the project on Tuesday. FrontPage Africa/Sustainable Development Institute
MONROVIA – Green Livelihood Alliance (GLA) 2.0, a program tackling deforestation, human rights abuses and activists’ safety and the lack of policies that drive smallholder farming, has been launched.
Campaigners at the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), who are implementing the five-year project, say GLA 2.0 will be implemented in Sinoe, Grand Kru, Maryland, Gbarpolu, Grand Cape Mount and Bomi. These counties host the largest oil palm concessions and are hubs for illegal logging, infamous for elite land-grab and attacks on local activists.
Overview and purpose
The European Union (EU) Roadmap for engagement with Civil Society is a joint initiative between the EU and its Member States to strengthen partnership with civil society around the world and providing support in these endeavors. In 2017 the EU Delegation in Liberia, together with Member States, developed the EU Roadmap (RM) for engagement with Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) covering the period 2017-2020. The EU Delegation in Liberia now seeks to update the Roadmap beyond 2020, partially considering new developments in the context and partially in view of the new EU priorities set for the programming period 2021-2027 in line with the new Neighborhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI). Out of the five priority areas set in the new NDICI, the following two priorities; i) Green Deal and ii) Jobs and Growth, have been identified in EUs programming with Liberia 2021-2027. These two priority areas are interlinked with the identified Team
Mar 26, 2021
This latest decision of the Press Union of Liberia is in response to the incomplete works of Laurence K. Bropleh Committee constituted by President George Weah to probe brutalities against journalists. No report of the Bropleh Committee has ever been seen in public or communicated with the journalism community.
West African Journalists Association (WAJA), Peter Quaqua and Loretta Pope Kai, National Civil Society Council of Liberia named member to the committee called Dr. Bropleh out for his dreary handling of the inquest commissioned by the President of Liberia and the pair subsequently resigned.
Top of the attacks were the whipping of revered journalist Zenu Miller by agents of the Executive Protection Service (EPS). Miller was admitted to the hospital shortly after the incident. His family said Miller died of hypertension and stroke quoting medical staff. Another journalist, Salam Kaloko of Maggie Online TV was attacked by an agent of the EPS while covering a p
Charles Coffey, PUL President
To mark one year of Liberian journalists rally in Monrovia to detest the brutalization of media practitioners, the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) says litigation is the best reprimand for security forcesâ heavy-handedness.
On Thursday, March 11, 2020, Liberian journalists under the leadership of the Press Union of Liberia paraded the principal streets of Monrovia to draw national government, civil society, and the international community attention to security forces brutality against the Media in Liberia.
The PUL asserts that going forward all attacks on journalists will be analyzed to determine its merit for a possible court action on a case-by-case basis.