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Building Legal Capacity to Protect Forests and Forest Communities’ Rights

RFUK is developing special training programmes for teams of young African lawyers to work with forest communities and local organisations, helping them defend community rights to lands and resources and basic rights, stop illegal forest destruction, confront abuse…

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RFUK is developing special training programmes for teams of young African lawyers to work with forest communities and local organisations, helping them defend community rights to lands and resources and basic rights, stop illegal forest destruction, confront abuse of forest peoples’ rights, obtain essential legal documents, and establish legally-designated community forest areas.

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