Africom Commodities a saisi la Cour internationale d'arbitrage de la Chambre de commerce internationale à Paris pour demander un remboursement de près de 20 millions de dollars par Kinshasa.
Human rights groups are calling on the International Criminal Court to open formal investigation into killings of land defenders in Colombia, saying the Colombian government is failing to investigate the crimes properly.
Report finds that the PNG government distributed over 5 million ha of customary land to private companies for large-scale agricultural development, without the free, prior and informed consent of all affected landowners.
Since 2000, governments, financial investors, and corporations have been involved in land deals covering over 38.9 million ha of land in developing countries, with many of these constituting illegal “land grabs” in violation of international law.
There were dramatic scenes outside Phnom Penh court this week as one of Cambodia’s most iconic activists, Tep Vanny lost an appeal to overturn her two and a half year jail sentence.
La cour pénale internationale va procéder aux enquêtes à l’encontre des personnes qui s’approprient illégalement les terres appartenant à des tiers dans la province du Nord-Kivu en RDC
Les mouvements sociaux d’Afrique et d’Europe s’organisent pour une meilleure gouvernance en Afrique et un nouveau cadre de partenariat avec la France qui excluent l'accaparement des terres agricoles.
An ASEAN criminal court, like the ICC in The Hague, could criminally prosecute land grabbing in southeast Asia, some argue
The case is significant as it could change the way community displacement in the wake of large-scale land deals is tested and prosecuted
While the ICC has no jurisdiction to prosecute companies, individual company executives can in principle be investigated in connection with corporate complicity in land-grabbing.
In a world fraught with major human rights violations, and significant constraints facing the ICC, what are the prospects of a prosecution for land grabbing or environmental destruction?
With land grabbing fast becoming one of the most pressing human rights issues of our time, the International Criminal Court has started to recognize that the guise of economic development can mask many crimes against humanity.
