them of their right to property guaranteed by article 14 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.103 Refusal to Pay Rent Many Guérés in western Côte d’Ivoire have historically entered into rent agreements with non-natives, a practice commonly referred to as “travail partagé.” This roughly translates as “shared work,” though the system might be more accurately described as the “shared fruits of the non-native’s work.” Some Guérés interviewed by Human Rights Watch said that, after the crisis, non-natives who work for them no longer abide by the former rent agreement. Human Rights Watch primarily documented these cases in villages around Duékoué, a region where most land was already in use prior to the crisis. There are two predominant kinds of travail partagé arrangements. In both, the Guéré tuteur provides a parcel of land to a migrant, who works the land. In the first type of arrangement, the landowner and renter split the crop for the entire area ceded to the renter—with each party then responsible for selling his portion. In the second type of arrangement, the landowner and renter split the money from the sold crop. A Guéré man from Diahouin, a village north of Duékoué, described how a Burkinabé who had worked on his land for more than 15 years no longer followed their agreement: I fled in 2011 when the [FRCI] were coming toward Duékoué and didn’t come back until after [the July 2012 Nahibly IDP camp attack]. Before the crisis, we shared the cocoa revenue. I gave him two hectares on which to plant, and we agreed to do travail partagé. It happened every year, until the crisis. Now, he shares it with himself. After this harvest, he went and sold the cocoa without even calling me, and when I confronted him about it, he said there was no money for me. Before, if we sold 100,000 CFA ($200) of cocoa, he took 50,000 CFA, I took 40,000 CFA, and 10,000 CFA went to treat the fields. Now, I get nothing…. Since the crisis, they are the bosses.104 103 African [Banjul] Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), adopted June 27, 1981, OAU Doc. CAB/LEG/67/3 rev. 5, 21 I.L.M. 58 (1982), entered into force October 21, 1986, acceded to by Côte d’Ivoire on January 6, 1992, art. 14. 104 Human Rights Watch interview with alleged victim of breach of rent agreement, Diahouin, February 10, 2013. “THAT LAND IS MY FAMILY’S WEALTH” 38