On 10 August 2020 indigenous communities from Busra commune in Cambodia signed an agreement with the rubber company Socfin Cambodia to settle a long-lasting dispute about their communal and spiritual lands.
Reportage de Mongabay sur le conflit autour de la Socaplam au Cameroun
A new wave of alleged environmental and human rights abuses by Wilmar, Socfin and others sees renewed calls for action
La Soguipah - entreprise d'Etat qui détient 9 000 ha de plantations d'hévéa en Guyinée - fait appel à Bolloré pour continuer à tourner
- Mosaiqueguinee.com
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15 July 2020
The massive Socfin oil palm plantation operation is one of post-war Sierra Leone’s biggest investments and one of its most controversial.
Update fropm the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, accountability mechanism for the World Bank's International Finance Corporation, on the complaint from Liberian communities regarding IFC’s investment in Salala Rubber Corporation of the Socfin group.
Socfin, a Belgian holding company that operates palm oil and rubber plantations through dozens of subsidiaries across Africa and Southeast Asia, has been rebuked for alleged human rights violations at its plantations.
Mbonjo sits in the heart of Cameroon’s country’s largest oil palm and rubber-producing region and owned by the Belgian holding company Socfin.
On 20 May 2020 villagers from Ijaw-Gbene in Okomu Kingdom had their homes burnt down by agents of the Nigerian subsidiary of the Luxembourg-based SOCFIN plantations company.
- Galaxy Television
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16 June 2020
Le 20 mai 2020, un autre village du royaume d'Okomu, Ijaw-Gbene, a été complètement incendié par la direction d'OOPC, filiale nigériane de la société de plantations SOCFIN.
La SRC accuse l'équipe d'évaluation du CAO - mécanisme indépendant de surveillance et de redevabilité de la Société financière internationale de la Banque mondiale - de partialité
- Front Page Africa
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28 May 2020
The complaint to the independent watchdog and accountability mechanism of the Wolrd Bank relates to a series of gross human rights abuses perpetrated against the indigenous people in SRC’s concession areas.
- FrontPageAfrica
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28 May 2020