Liberia

Many rural communities affected by agricultural concessions in Liberia have seen their ancestral gravesites leveled in some of the worst land-grabs in human history.

Une revue de 15 projets dans 11 pays tire la sonnette d'alarme sur l'accaparement de l'eau et appelle à une action urgente pour protéger le droit à l'eau en Afrique.

A review of 15 large-scale agriculture projects across 11 African countries, exposes how these projects lead to the loss of streams and swamps and pollute water sources.

Researchers say that cross-border campaigning and resistance by community land rights organizations is a major reason why the industry has faltered in Africa.

The handful of companies that control industrial palm oil production in West and Central Africa have been linked to numerous social and environmental impacts, violating their buyers’ NDPE commitments.

Death threats and exile: Local environmental defenders are the front line of the climate crisis - protecting the land they live on when it’s threatened by powerful business interests.

Dutch Banks ING Group, ABN AMRO, and Rabobank have provided 3.1 billion Euros (nearly US$3.5 billion) to agriculture projects that have led to deforestation, land grab and human rights violations around the world in the last five years, a new report has found.

The uncertain conditions left behind by Sime Darby and the apparent failure of the government to intervene has revived the activism instinct of a selfless champion of community rights.

Aim is to defend human rights within rubber concessions, including Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC) and the Liberia Agricultural Company (LAC).

16 former workers of Golden Veroleum Liberia received their severance benefits following a settlement with the company, one year and eight months after they filed a complaint with the labor Office over their illegal dismissals.

Un nouveau rapport sur la stratégie fiscale du groupe agroalimentaire Socfin révèle comment les multinationales peuvent transférer leurs bénéfices des pays d’Afrique et d’Asie où sont produites les matières premières vers des paradis fiscaux tels que la Suisse.

Le groupe Socfin (détenu à 40% par le groupe Bolloré) transfère des bénéfices issus de la production de matières premières vers Fribourg, un canton suisse à faible fiscalité, selon un nouveau rapport de Pain pour le prochain, Alliance Sud et le Réseau allemand pour la justice fiscale