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Land Rights Defenders has been recognized by leading independent media outlets for our work defending Indigenous land rights.
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Land Rights Defenders has been featured by two of the world's most widely read international news platforms.
Oct 10, 2025"When communities are separated from their ancestral lands, it can feel like a thread has been pulled from the fabric of their identity and daily life. I say this not just as an observer, but as someone who's seen it unfold firsthand."
Through Land Rights Defenders Inc., founder Nana Kwesi Osei Bonsu fosters dialogue on how Indigenous wisdom can reshape modern land stewardship and tenure practices — valuing oral histories alongside formal evidence to empower communities facing dispossession.
Read Full ArticleFeb 12, 2026"There is a reason this story is emerging now. History, urgency, and personal courage have converged. The land cannot wait, and silence is no longer an option."
His work is defined by the belief that cultural survival is defended through public accountability and the willingness to speak when silence becomes precarious — positioning the memoir as a strategic intervention and a catalyst for indigenous rights advocacy.
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Oct 28, 2025Indigenous Communities Are the Frontlines of Climate Action — It's Time COP Listened
Writing for IPS ahead of COP30, Nana Kwesi Osei Bonsu argues that less than 1% of global climate finance reaches Indigenous-led initiatives — and that secure land rights are inseparable from effective climate action.
Read ArticleDec 2025U.S. Deportations Are Remaking Daily Life in Ghana
Supported by the Pulitzer Center, Capital B News profiles Nana Kwesi Osei Bonsu as a land and environmental defender seeking asylum in Ohio — a seventh-generation Ashanti descendant forced to flee Ghana after building a nonprofit to protect his community's ancestral lands.
Read ArticleAug 2024World's Indigenous Peoples Day Q&A: Nana Kwesi Osei Bonsu, Founder of Land Rights Defenders
In an in-depth Q&A marking World's Indigenous Peoples Day, Nana Kwesi Osei Bonsu describes his journey from persecution in Ghana to founding a global movement — including winning a human rights case against the Ghana Police Service.
Read ArticleAug 9, 2024A Call for Philanthropy on the International Day of the World's Indigenous People
In an op-ed for Alliance Magazine — the leading global journal for philanthropy and social investment — Nana Kwesi Osei Bonsu calls on funders to invest directly in Indigenous-led solutions, using the Benimasi-Boadi community's struggle as a defining case study.
Read ArticleNov 2025Roots of Resilience: Indigenous Guardians Protecting Benimasi-Boadi's Biodiversity
Fairplanet's solutions journalism platform features how the Benimasi-Boadi Indigenous community, supported by LRDI, is protecting one of Ghana's last intact forest ecosystems — combining ancestral knowledge with formal legal advocacy.
Read ArticleAug 2024Facing Land Grabs, Ghana's Benimasi-Boadi People Cry Out for Justice
Nana Kwesi Osei Bonsu documents how the Benimasi-Boadi community has faced systematic encroachment by KNUST and the Land Commission — and how LRDI is mobilizing international advocacy to secure justice.
Read ArticleNov 19, 2024Guardians of Heritage: The Fight for Land Rights Defenders
Resilience.org profiles LRDI as a growing global network dedicated to protecting biodiversity and ancestral lands — documenting UNEP-WCMC spatial data submissions, UN Human Rights Council complaints, and advocacy for Ghana's Land Act 2020.
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Indigenous Land Rights Are Under Attack. One Man Is Fighting To Change That.
Lazo Magazine · Aug 2024
The Climate Crisis Won't Be Solved Without Indigenous Leadership
Analyst News · 2025
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