Golden Agri Resources

“GVL came here and told our people to give it land so it can provide citizens with jobs and development. Now, we have given GVL land and the jobs have been taken away from us"

The company is also found to have violated the land and cultural rights of local communities, including the right to free prior and informed consent and social requirements on basic needs and grievance and remedy.

The African Peoples Tribunal demands that African governments ensure that the human rights of freedom of speech, expression, and association of citizens and persons who brought cases of abuses before the tribunal are respected and protected

Quatre reportages sur les expériences autour de Sud Cameroun Hevea (filiale de Halcyon Agri, Singapour) et SOSUCAM (filiale du groupe SOMDIAA, France)

GVL, le premier producteur d’huile de palme au Libéria disposant de 350 000 hectares, a réduit de 10 % (443 emplois) son effectif dans le pays à cause de la pandémie mondiale du coronavirus.

One year after palm oil company Golden-Agri Resources (GAR) and its subsidiary Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL) were called out for illegal deforestation, land grabbing, and the destruction of critical wildlife habitats, and many ongoing abuses later things on the ground don’t look much better.

Community representatives, impacted by palm oil companies in Liberia and Indonesia have traveled to the Netherlands to convey their grievances with ABN Amro, the financier of those companies.

Alfred Brownell had to flee Liberia after challenging the powerful palm oil and other extractive industries that were clearing its forests.

Au Liberia, l’essor des plantations de palmier à huile n’a pas permis d’améliorer les conditions de vie des populations locales, selon Alfred Brownell, récipiendaire du Prix Goldman pour l’environnement 2019.

Palm oil plantations in Liberia are billed as bringing jobs and development but actually leave locals poorer, said a Liberian lawyer who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday.

Two years ago Alfred Brownell was forced to flee Liberia after a successful campaign against a foreign palm oil plantation led to death threats and intimidation

Locked within the legislation is a flaw for those living on the quarter of the country’s land set aside for concessions: it is not retroactive. A difficult truth that is only just beginning to permeate thousands of villages in Liberia.