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Gabon : Les femmes rurales indexent Olam
- Mandji Infos
- 08 Mar 2018
Les populations rurales craignent l’accaparement par Olam Palm Mouila des terres cultivables et appellent au respect de l’usage de leurs droits coutumiers.
Amérique Latine : un accord pour protéger les défenseurs de l’environnement
- Amnesty Int'l
- 08 Mar 2018
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
Women demand that oil palm companies stop violence and give back community land
- WRM, RADD
- 08 Mar 2018
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.
Planting the seeds of change - managing social issues in land investing
- PRI
- 08 Mar 2018
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.
Cambodia security forces shoot protesters dead in land dispute
- Radio Free Asia
- 08 Mar 2018
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 le ZES, une porte ouverte à l'accaparement des terres à Madagascar
- TANY
- 08 Mar 2018
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
Latin American countries sign legally binding pact to protect land defenders
- Guardian
- 07 Mar 2018
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.
Guatemala and Colombia: Women facing oil palm plantations
- WRM
- 07 Mar 2018
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.
Indonesia: Exploitation of women and violation of their rights in oil palm plantations
- WRM
- 07 Mar 2018
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: Plantations uproot women from their customary forests
- WRM
- 07 Mar 2018
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.
Cameroon: Urban and Rural Activists Against Industrial Plantations’ Abuses Towards Women
- WRM
- 07 Mar 2018
From rapes, forced body searches and searches of private spaces, to the risk of losing their lives: this article calls on us not to be accomplices to the violence women living around industrial tree plantations in Cameroon suffer.
Papua New Guinea rice-planting deal expected this week
- Business World
- 07 Mar 2018
The Philippines will sign this week a government-to-government agreement with Papua New Guinea allowing Filipino companies to produce rice on an area of about 1 million hectares within five years.