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The following provides information on some of ILP’s projects around the globe.
The nature of some of our work is confidential so we are only able to share details which would not put others at risk. If you would like to know more about our work or request assistance, please contact us.


The African Court’s Ogiek Compliance Decision: A Turning Point for Indigenous Land Rights in Africa?
Our Executive Director, Lucy Claridge, has written a guest blog for Human Rights in Context [...]
International Lawyers Project
Dec 19, 20251 min read


Why Tax Justice is Crucial to Achieving Climate Goals
In November, as the world gathered in Belém for the 30th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 30), attention centred on accelerating climate ambition, responding to intensifying climate impacts, and rebuilding trust between developed and developing countries [...]
International Lawyers Project
Dec 16, 20254 min read


Holding Power to Account: How the EU Can Use Magnitsky Sanctions to Undermine Kleptocracy in Equatorial Guinea
For decades, the people of Equatorial Guinea have endured one of the most repressive regimes in the world. The country’s leaders have enriched themselves at the expense of their citizens and overseen egregious human rights abuses.
International Lawyers Project
Dec 10, 20254 min read


Protecting Indigenous Land Rights: Capacity Building for Maasai Leaders on Carbon Markets
Across East Africa, Indigenous communities are increasingly being approached by carbon market actors, who are seeking to develop carbon offset projects on their ancestral lands [...]
International Lawyers Project
Dec 4, 20255 min read


How We Developed the World’s First Wildlife Trade Integrity Index: A New Tool to Tackle Corruption in Wildlife Trade
In July, Yunhua Lin, one of Malawi’s most notorious wildlife traffickers, was unexplicably pardoned by the President. Lin had been sentenced for smuggling ivory [...]
International Lawyers Project
Nov 11, 20254 min read


Not Backing Down: Activists Can Push Back Against SLAPPs
As a child, Korieh Duodu watched his father, a Ghanaian journalist, targeted by the military for his reporting and forced into exile in the UK during the 1980s. That early lesson in the cost of speaking [...]
International Lawyers Project
Nov 4, 20255 min read
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