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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 [...] .

On 23 July, The International Court of Justice (ICJ) released an advisory opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change. This unanimous judgment had the international human rights legal community waiting with bated breath after a multi-year campaign in the United Nations General Assembly [...]

Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) is a procedural safeguard recognised by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and [...]

The UK government's 2024 sanctions designation against Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola's former president, and two of her associates, carries significant implications for Angola's political and economic landscape.

African countries are currently facing a deepening debt crisis that is threatening to derail development and undermine basic human rights.

In support of London Climate Action Week, the International Lawyers Project (ILP) emphasises its commitment to environmental justice, including just transition principles, in the face of climate action.