Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu
Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu is a senior researcher on women and land with the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. Her work focuses on the impacts of large-scale commercial land deals on women and communities in Africa and Asia.
Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Juliana taught at Iowa State University and the University of Buea (Cameroon). She also co-founded a girls’ school in Cameroon focused on science, technology, and mathematics.
Juliana has a PhD in sociology and sustainable agriculture from Iowa State University, and a Master’s Degree in public policy. She speaks French and Bafaw.
Articles Authored
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March 27, 2018
Zambia Should Protect Customary Land Rights
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November 15, 2017
How Commercial Farms Are Ripping Apart Zambian Communities
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October 20, 2017
“We slept out in the open air like wild animals”
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October 14, 2016
African Women Scale Heights in Land Rights Protest
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August 17, 2016
Why Liberia Needs to Protect Land Rights
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August 9, 2016
Dispatches: Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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April 19, 2016
Dispatches: Year after Landmark Case, Widows Still Waiting
Reports Authored
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“We Must Ask for What Is Already Ours”
Afro-descendant Women and Access to Land in Alto Mira y Frontera, Colombia
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Tanzania: Maasai Forcibly Displaced for Game Reserve
Provide Redress; Adopt New Conservation Model After Consultations
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“When We Lost the Forest, We Lost Everything”
Oil Palm Plantations and Rights Violations in Indonesia
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