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LWF’s work in Angola

Angola is a country rich in natural resources, such as diamonds and oil. When the oil price dropped, the government decreed a diversification of the economy, encouraging investment in agriculture from foreign as well as local companies. A new land law was passed to protect small-scale farmers and rural communities. But often the legal procedure is not respected and farmers lose the land on which their livelihood depends.

The video shows how LWF is working with rural communities, village chiefs, local and national administration to raise awareness and to support people in claiming their legal rights.

An LWF production. Funded by Bread for the World/ Brot für die Welt, Germany.

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Angola

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The workshop will introduce participants to LWF’s local to global (L2G) Rights-based Approach (RBA) programme more generally and human rights mechanisms of Human Rights Council (HRC), and Universal Periodic Review (UPR) more specifically. It will also explain how to engage with the UPR to bring priority human rights issues from the perspective of CSOs in Angola to bear to effect positive social change through advocacy.

The workshop will equally train participants on methodology regarding how to form a coalition of CSOs on the UPR, and organize into cluster groups that will embark on data collection in each of their thematic human rights area of expertise.

The data collected will be compiled into a report that will be submitted to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) as a CSOs shadow report documenting priority

Language: English

Department: Department for Theology and Public Witness

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