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Our Executive Director, Lucy Claridge, has written a guest blog for Human Rights in Context [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Africa is one of the regions least responsible for global greenhouse gas emissions, yet it faces some of the harshest impacts of climate change. The continent is warming faster than the global average [...]

Every year, governments around the world lose between USD 100 and 240 billion in revenue to tax avoidance, amounting to as much as ten percent of global corporate tax revenues. This loss of revenue hits Global South countries especially hard [...] .