Liberia

Une communauté au Libéria lutte pour garder ses terres. Une entreprise anglaise d’huile de palme veut en prendre possession sans en avoir la permission.

Amigos de la Tierra Liberia advierten a los gobiernos e inversionistas que todas las inversiones deben respetar los derechos de las comunidades y su propiedad sobre las tierras.

For the affected communities, this is a story of bad rather than “best practices”, an experience in which their “aspirations” as “stakeholders” were not at all addressed.

Liberia's Jogbahn Clan and other communities are resisting the corporate takeover of their land and they are winning. All over Africa people are sending a clear message to their governments; stop selling Africa to corporations.

In Liberia, the Jogbahn Clan have been fighting against a palm oil company grabbing their land.

The recent overturning of UK company Equatorial Palm Oil’s access to customary land in Liberia is a warning to all governments and investors that they must respect communities’ rights and ownership of land.

In Indonesia alone, there are some 4,000 land conflicts between palm oil companies and local people, which can take years to be resolved in court.

As the spring meetings of the World Bank get under way, 180 organizations demand that the World Bank end its Doing Business rankings and its support of the rampant theft of land and resources from some of the world’s poorest people.

Alors que les réunions de printemps de la Banque Mondiale vont s’ouvrir, 180 groupes demandent que la Banque mette fin à ses classements Doing Business et à ses activités soutenant l’accaparement des terres et des ressources naturelles.

Des villageois ont fait reculer de puissantes multinationales, et cela se passe au Liberia.

Does a recent decision by Sirleaf signal a change of heart for a leader who has signed 30% of Liberia’s land over to foreign investors - with 1.5 million acres for palm oil companies?

Workers at the Bomi plantation, who requested anonymity, said the blaze was started by suspected arsonists and had blazed for about two weeks before being brought under control.