DARUBINI – Tanzania Briefing – December 2023
Tanzania’s rich mineral reserves and thriving extractive industries provide a promise of economic prosperity and development. However, when these industries cause harm to both surrounding communities and environments, access to remedy often remains difficult. In this briefing, IPIS and its partners address challenges facing Legal Aid Providers (LAPs) in achieving access to remedy for affected parties. Centering attention on the recent Petra Diamonds settlement over alleged human rights abuses at Williamson Diamond Mine.
“DARUBINI” is the quarterly briefing on “Justice, Human Rights, and Natural Resource Governance in Tanzania.”
This publication is part of the project ‘Empowering Tanzanian communities and civil society to foster justice and human rights in natural resource governance‘ implemented by HakiRasilimali, Business and Human Rights Tanzania (BHRT), Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) and the International Peace Information Service (IPIS) and supported by the Belgian Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid (DGD).
This publication has been produced with the financial assistance of the Belgian Directorate-General for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid (DGD). The contents of this document can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the Belgian Development Cooperation.