Dans un échange de lettres, la Synergie nationale des paysans et riverains du Cameroun défend la liberté des riverains de la Socapalm, filiale du groupe Socfin, de circuler sur les routes mises à disposition des habitants de la zone
Des organisations accusent la société Socfin, dont le groupe Bolloré est le deuxième actionnaire, de violer les principes des Nations unies.
Civil society groups working with communities affected by the rubber and oil palm plantations of the Socfin group use today's Annual General Meeting of the company to speak out about ongoing problems.
Bienvenue aux « Terres de Socapalm » : six palmeraies sont réparties sur ce territoire de 58 000 hectares au sud-ouest du Cameroun – ce qui représente un tiers de la superficie de la province d’Utrecht.
- De Volkskrant
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25 May 2021
Des organisations de la société civile interpellent sur les abus entourant les agro-industries à l'occasion de l'Assemblée Générale des actionnaires du Groupe Socfin.
The Bolloré Group is a major supplier to the United Nations. The UN pays Bolloré over US$50 million every year for logistics and other services. While Bolloré Group through SOCFIN has been accused of land grabbing and widespread human rights violations for years.
- Oakland Institute
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24 May 2021
European companies, including oil and rubber giant Socfin, have long profited from human rights abuses, environmental destruction and climate breakdown. This briefing from Global Witness sets out proposals on how to change that under EU law,
- Global Witness
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30 April 2021
Il est scandaleux qu’un groupe comme Socfin puisse laver son image en arborant le bourgeon de Bio Suisse
- Pain pour le prochain
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12 Mar 2021
Grassroots organisations and community leaders from across the region have been organizing, mobilizing, raising their voices, and networking among each other to stop this destructive and violent occupation of their land.
If the plantation model in itself is understood as a violent, destructive, structurally racist and patriarchal one, can corporate gender-specific policies do more than cover up this violence and destruction?
Green Scenery applauds the visit by President Maada Bio to the People of Sahn Malen Chiefdom and his promise to resolve the dispute between the aggrieved land owners and SOCFIN Agriculture Company as soon as possible.
- Green Scenery
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01 Mar 2021
Les entreprises agro-industrielles du groupe Socfin prévoient des extensions de leurs plantations au Cameroun avec un risque élevé sur la réduction du couvert forestier et de potentiels conflits sociaux
The violence inherent in the colonial plantation model does not spare systems of collective organization, food sovereignty, community care, cultural and language diversity, and ancestral knowledge.
Au Cameroun, les populations rurales accusent la Socapalm, une entreprise de plantation de palmiers à huile, de les déposséder de leurs terres. Elisabeth Asen Somo a mené sa petite enquête.
There are 22 impoverished villages of over 2,000 inhabitants surrounding the Salala Rubber Corporation, and all are contending that the company turns over their land of inheritance, which it claimed without their consent years ago.
- Daily Observer
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05 January 2021
Le multinazionali dell’agri-business - si apprende dal sito Africa Rivista, che rilancia un dossier sul Land Grabbing di FOCSIV - sono le prime a cui si pensa quando si tratta di accaparramento delle terre
- La Repubblica
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14 December 2020
Those accused were all members of the Malen Affected Land Owners and Users Association (MALOA), advocating for the land rights of their members in the face of the operations of the palm oil company SOCFIN.
- Green Scenery
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11 December 2020
Aminata Fabba, Chairlady of the Malen Land Owners Association, spoke out at the First Peoples’ Hearing of Mano River CSO Platform in Liberia about the abuses here community in Sierra Leone is facing at the hands of SOCFIN.
- Liberian Observer
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11 December 2020
Entre 2000 y 2020, el área de las plantaciones de palma aceitera en Kalimantan aumentó más del doble, de 2 millones 400 mil hectáreas a 5 millones 800 mil hectáreas. Kalimantan Occidental es la tercera área más grande de producción de palma aceitera de Indonesia, con plantaciones que cubren cerca de un millón y medio de hectáreas a lo largo de sus once distritos.
Le Luxembourg abrite-t-il des entreprises dont l’action est condamnable? On trouve, dans le collimateur de l’initiative, Socfin (société du groupe Bolloré, côté au Luxembourg) et Ferrero.
- PaperJam
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07 December 2020
Lonjakan permintaan minyak sawit datang dengan konsekuensi yang mahal, mulai dari perusakan hutan hujan, eksploitasi tenaga kerja, dan perampasan tanah serta perampasan air yang brutal. Tekanan dari perkebunan kelapa sawit telah memaksa komunitas di Kalimantan Barat berjuang demi akses air bersih dan memproduksi makanan.
- ECOTON, GEMAWAN, GRAIN, KRUHA
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07 December 2020
The industry boom in the demand for palm oil has come at the high price of rainforest destruction, labour exploitation, and brutal land and water grabbing. The pressure from oil palm plantations has pushed communities in West Borneo on a common struggle to access clean water and continue producing food.
- ECOTON, GEMAWAN, GRAIN, KRUHA
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04 December 2020
The African Peoples Tribunal demands that African governments ensure that the human rights of freedom of speech, expression, and association of citizens and persons who brought cases of abuses before the tribunal are respected and protected
«Un groupe de militants liés à XR a coloré les bâtiments du McDonald’s, de H&M, de Burger King, de Nespresso, du Crédit Agricole, de Starbucks, de Crédit Suisse, d’UBS et de Socfin afin de dénoncer leurs agissements écocides, meurtriers, esclavagistes et immoraux»
- La Liberté
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27 November 2020
In Liberia, human rights have allegedly been violated on rubber plantations managed from Switzerland. Instead of taking up mediation offers, the Socfin group prefers to act against its critics.
- Bread for all
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26 November 2020
El 20 de mayo de 2020, la comunidad Ijaw-Gbene, al sur de Nigeria, se quemó complentamente. Testigos oculares acusan a las fuerzas de seguridad de la empresa Okomu Oil Palm Plantation Plc (OOPC) de tener responsabilidad en el incendio, junto con miembros del ejército.
- Salva la Selva
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20 November 2020
A search through the World Bank's archives shines a light on why Africa's post-colonial governments failed to dismantle the plantation model and return lands to their people.
- WRM/GRAIN
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15 November 2020
Malen Affected Land Owners Association (MALOA) say they are dissatisfied with the process of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to certify Socfin Agricultural Company's operation in Malen Chiefdom.
- Concord Times
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13 November 2020
Broadcast with Joseph Rahall, Shiaka Sama and Frédéric Mousseau that looks at the struggle over land around Socfin's 18,500 ha oil palm concession in Sierra Leone.
- A Growing Culture
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24 October 2020
SOCFIN's operations in Sierra Leone is one of 5 cases documented by Friend of the Earth Europe to highlight the lack of accountability of European multinationals