The privatisation Uzbekistan’s cotton sector is seeing huge tracts of land being transferred to private operators for cotton cultivation, with farmers coerced into “voluntarily” giving up their land leases, with devastating effects on rural livelihoods.
- Apparel Insider
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19 February 2021
La problématique du foncier refait surface au niveau du département de Dagana, au Sénégal, où le Collectif des habitants des 37 villages du Ndiaél veut à tout prix récupérer ses terres.
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.
Land conflicts in Indonesia escalated in 2020, with palm oil and pulpwood companies taking advantage of movement restrictions to expand aggressively, according to a new report.
- Mongabay
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17 February 2021
Le président de la société civile Basoko (rive Lokutu) dénonce les récentes arrestations et violences policières suite aux protestations pacifiques contre la société de plantation de palmiers à huile PHC.
- RIAO-RDC
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16 February 2021
La société civile alerte sur l'accaparement d'au moins 100.000 ha des terres coutumières par le Projet Parc Agro industriel de N'kundi dans la vallée de Luala au Kongo Central (RDC) à la frontière avec la République du Congo.
- Actualité.cd
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15 February 2021
President of the Civil Society of Basoko (Lokutu side) denounces the recent arrests and police violence following peaceful protests against the oil palm plantation company PHC.
- RIAO-RDC
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15 February 2021
The Kenya Human Rights Commission wants the Murang’a County Assembly to block any plans to renew the land leases held by Kakuzi until claims on historical land injustices are resolved.
- The Standard
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15 February 2021
El 5 de febrero, unidades armadas de la Policía Nacional de Honduras desalojaron por la fuerza a los grupos campesinos Unidos al Campo y Mujeres y Hombres de Fe de las tierras que los campesinos recuperaron y comenzaron a trabajar hace más de 12 años.
- CNTC Honduras
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15 February 2021
British colonial plantation company producing food for UK supermarkets settles claims with victims of horrific abuses in Kenya - rape, murder and beatings - but refuses to address the issue of land.
On February 5th, armed Honduran National Police forcibly evicted the campesino groups, Unidos al Campo and Mujeres y Hombres de Fe from land they recuperated and began working over 12 years ago.
- CNTC Honduras
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14 February 2021
The oil palm plantation company PHC is funded by European and US development banks and companies.
- RIAO-RDC
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14 February 2021
