Dans plusieurs localités du Cameroun, les femmes sont fouillées jusqu’à leur intimité, violentées, torturées et trainées en justice parce qu’elles détiennent quelques noix de palme, dénoncent les riveraines.
Les communautés rurales des villages impactés par les plantations de palmiers à huile du singapourien Olam ont marché à Mouila pour dénoncer les abus faits aux femmes
Les populations rurales craignent l’accaparement par Olam Palm Mouila des terres cultivables et appellent au respect de l’usage de leurs droits coutumiers.
24 pays d'Amérique latine et des Caraïbes vient de voter un accord juridiquement contraignant qui protège les droits d'accès à l'information, à la participation publique et à la justice en matière de questions environnementales
On 8 March, International Women’s Day, hundreds of organizations and individuals demand an end to the violence against women living in and around large-scale oil palm plantations expansion.
The PRI’s webinar Planting the seeds of change: managing social issues in land investing explores why investors should consider land issues and learn about the Reference Guide for Risk Assessment in relation to land.
Authorities in Cambodia’s Kratie province on Thursday opened fire on a group of people protesting over a long-running land dispute with a rubber plantation, killing as many as eight people and injuring dozens of others.
La loi sur les ZES privera les Malgaches de l’accès à des milliers d’hectares de terres pour une période de longue durée sinon indéterminée
Officials from 24 Latin American and Caribbean states have signed a legally binding treaty containing measures to protect land defenders, almost two years to the day since environmental leader Berta Cáceres was killed in her home in Honduras.
Contamination of water sources, deplorable working conditions, and sexual blackmail in exchange for work, are some of the kinds of violence against women living in and around oil palm plantations in Guatemala and Colombia.
The expansion of oil palm plantations in Indonesia has turned women into landless food buyers and cheap labour, with no adequate safety and health protection, for the plantation companies.
India’s programme to compensate for the destruction of forests for development projects is routinely setting up monoculture tree plantations on community commons. Women, who are mostly affected, are at the centre of its resistance.
