Communities in Cross River State have kicked against the exclusion of women in community land rights and the continuous marginalisation by multinational companies.
Activists have called for a financial probe into the Korindo Group, a conglomerate that paid a $22 million “consultancy fee” for the permits to expand its oil palm operations in Indonesia’s Papua province.
Civil Society Organzation from various regions in Indonesia and International letter contains urgent concern for the safety of land and human rights defenders impacted by the Korindo Group and POSCO International, Indonesia.
The forceful evictions are being carried out by three (3) multinational companies namely; Agilis Partners, Great Season and Kiryandongo Sugar Limited without court actions.
With the COVID-19 pandemic still expanding across the globe, ACT NOW is urging the PNG government to drop its plans to put customary land into the hands of commercial banks. The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated once again that customary land is a vital and irreplaceable resource for families and communities.
The massive Socfin oil palm plantation operation is one of post-war Sierra Leone’s biggest investments and one of its most controversial.
Nationalists want land issues to be handled independently by Sri Lanka because of fears that the MCC will be used to grab land for foreign investments, as has happened in Africa.
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.
People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty, GRAIN, and Ponlok Khmer urged the government of Cambodia to return disputed land from Chinese company Hengfu Group Sugar Industry to the Khmer and Indigenous Kuy communities. The groups expressed solidarity with the Indigenous Kuy people who continue to assert their legitimate land rights even amid the global health crisis.
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.
A video investigation on allegations of fraud and human rights abuses in billion-dollar land deals in West Papua, Indonesia to develop oil palm plantation.
