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As cocoa prices surge, two new studies reveal that the new frontiers of cocoa production in Central Africa are seeing women’s rights trampled and rising deforestation. Tyala Ifwanga argues that the EU’s much delayed...
10/03/2026
Harms linked to cocoa production – deforestation, child labour, farmers not paid a living wage – have long been documented, especially in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, the world’s two leading cocoa producers. Recent studies by Fern...
04/03/2026
The EUDR will enter into force at the end of 2025, following a one-year delay, but there is evidence that it has already triggered political efforts to better protect forests in tropical and EU forested countries.
This...
23/06/2025
NGOs are denouncing the Republic of Congo’s (RoC) decision to violate international and domestic obligations concerning the Congolese national park of Conkouati-Douli by allowing oil exploration in its fragile ecosystem....
11/06/2024
In 2013, the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) between the government of the Republic of Congo and the European Union (EU) entered into force, with the aim of addressing problems related to forest governance and illegal...
20/11/2023
FLEGT’s achievements must be saved at all costs, says Christian Mounzéo of Rencontre pour la paix et les droits de l’homme (RPDH), Republic of Congo.
21/11/2022
In the Republic of the Congo (RoC), the forestry sector continues to face governance challenges. Authorities often struggle to enforce laws and sanction illegal logging practices, and corruption remains omnipresent. Civil society...
25/10/2021
Under discussion since 2011, the new Forest Code aims to strengthen forest management and the forest timber sector, whilst improving governance and transparency, fighting deforestation, and advancing local communities’ rights in...
10/02/2021
23 September 2020: four hundred kilometres from the capital, Brazzaville, sits Ingolo 1, a village of around 1,200 people. The village committee have come together to meet a delegation of civil society organisations (CSOs) to...
18/11/2020
Peoples’ and the planet’s resilience can be enhanced by integrating the COVID-19 response with European Green Deal initiatives and prioritising the most vulnerable.
12/05/2020
