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Forcibly displaced Cambodians file historic lawsuit against Asia’s largest sugar producer
- IDI
- 04 April 2018
Displaced farmers from Cambodia have filed a landmark class-action lawsuit against the Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol.
Free at last: charges against indigenous land rights defender & former World Bank inspection panel translator dropped
- ASO
- 04 April 2018
Charges against Pastor Omot Agwa, an indigenous land rights defender from the Gambella region of Ethiopia are finally dropped by an Ethiopian court.
Reunião sobre o Ponto de Situação do ProSavana
- 03 April 2018
"Reiteramos a nossa posição contra o Programa ProSavana nos pressupostos em que foi desenhado e a forma como este tem sido imposto aos moçambicanos e moçambicanas, sendo que o convite para a referida reunião reforça esta imposição."
Liberia's new president must lead on land rights or risk conflict
- Reuters
- 03 April 2018
Research shows that the plantation model of development has failed to deliver promised benefits to Liberia’s rural people and that they benefit far more from retaining their traditional lands.
Harvard envolvida com grilagem de terras no Brasil
- Projeto Colabora
- 03 April 2018
Fraudes cartoriais, expulsão de trabalhadores rurais e desmatamento ilegal marcam a história da área de 140 mil hectares do Oeste na Bahia comprada por fundo da universidade americana.
Socfin : « Accaparement de terres » = diffamation
- Socfin
- 03 April 2018
Selon le Groupe Socfin, le Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris a décidé qu’accuser le Socfin et la Socapalm d' « accaparements de terres » constitue autant de diffamations à l’encontre desdites sociétés.
Cambodian farmers sue Thai sugar group Mitr Phol over alleged land grab
- Reuters
- 02 April 2018
Farmers from Cambodia have filed a lawsuit in a Thai civil court against Asia’s largest sugar producer, accusing it of rights abuses after it allegedly kicked farmers off their land.
Brasil: Projeto propõe liberação da venda de terras a estrangeiros
- Correio do Estado
- 02 April 2018
Medida destravaria investimentos na área que esbarram em restrições
Documents forged with cricket poop used to legalize land claims in Brazil as World Bank project opens doors to land grabber
- ActionAid
- 02 April 2018
During the World Bank's annual land conference. Actionaid joined with 70 organizations in Brazil and across the globe to reveal how one of the Bank's own projects is a “license for land grabbing.”
The Bunong, SOCFIN, and the French billionaire
- IWGIA
- 01 April 2018
In December 2008, the Indigenous Bunong Peoples of Bousra Commune in Cambodia awoke one morning to find that some 10,000 hectares of their forest and lands had been conceded by the government to the SOCFIN group
Bolloré contre France Télévisions : le paysan camerounais, ce témoin gênant
- TeleObs
- 01 April 2018
Venu tout exprès du Cameroun, il sera présent, le 3 avril prochain, au Tribunal de Grande Instance de Nanterre qui examinera la plainte pour diffamation déposée par l’homme d’affaires, furieux contre le documentaire que lui avait consacré France 2, en 2016
AAF ESG Annual Report 2017
- Phatisa
- 31 Mar 2018
African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual Report 2017