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Over the past five years, the UK Government has developed its approach to anti-corruption and the legislation that underpins it, as part of the realisation that the UK has historically served as a safe harbour for international corruption and kleptocracy across the globe. However, significant gaps remain. ILP’s partners, leading anti-corruption NGO Spotlight on Corruption and the UK Anti-Corruption Coalition (UKACC), required legal assistance with ensuring essential amendment

Liberia’s National Forestry Reform Law of 2006 set a target of conserving at least 30% of Liberia’s forest resources by 2020. Realising that clear conservation actions, including those of local forest-owning communities, would be needed to achieve this, the Liberian legislature entrenched communities’ interest in forest resources with the enactment of the Community Rights Law (CRL) in 2009. Under the CRL, rural communities are able to self-manage their forests or manage them

In July 2025, UN Secretary-General António Guterres declared that the ‘energy transition is unstoppable’ but noted that it is not yet ‘fair enough’. A just transition involves maximising social and economic opportunities from climate action while carefully managing challenges to countries, regions, communities, workers and consumers. This transition to a green economy should be transformative, rather than replicating the exploitative and destructive approaches of the past; it

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 [...]