World Heritage Day: MISA calls on UNESCO to protect Maasai rights

On World Heritage Day, 18 April 2024, a group of organisations from Tanzania, the USA and Europe, including MISA (Maasai International Solidarity Alliance) to which CELEP belongs, called on UNESCO to end its complicity in human rights violations. UNESCO must remove sites from its list where human rights violations occur and listen to the local people, such as the pastoralists in the Ngorongoro area of northern Tanzania, the best guardians of nature. The group has also made this demand directly to UNESCO after it failed to speak to Maasai representatives who spoke out against resettlement or to representatives of critical civil society during a recent official mission to Tanzania.

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Posted on 18 April 2024 in CELEP Documents, News, Pastoralism & Natural Resources, Pastoralism, Policy & Power

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