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
RIAO-RDC exige que les institutions financières de développement occidentales qui financent la société PHC agissent pour mettre fin à ces genres d'atrocités.
- RIAO-RDC
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14 February 2021
Birdwood, based in Asunción and managed by JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs alum, has hand-picked a 140,000-hectare, contiguous, world-class beef and grains aggregation in a zone of the Paraguayan Chaco.
Since evictions started in 2017, communities have faced acts of violence meted against them by multinational companies from sexual violence against women, torture, beating, kidnap to illegal arrest and detention.
- Witness Radio
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11 February 2021
Marcial Acosta, uno de los líderes de la comunidad, informó que se dirigirán hasta Asunción para seguir con sus reclamos ya que en vez de proveerles de tierras, funcionarios realizan la venta de propiedades públicas a extranjeros.
- Última Hora
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10 February 2021
Le soutien apporté depuis 2012 par la France à Feronia PHC, une société d’huile de palme opérant en République démocratique du Congo, est un cas d’école en matière d’opacité et d’intermédiation financière sur fonds de paradis fiscaux, d’accaparement des terres et de violation des droits des travailleurs.
- Le Monde
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09 February 2021