With the COVID-19 pandemic still expanding across the globe, ACT NOW is urging the PNG government to drop its plans to put customary land into the hands of commercial banks. The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated once again that customary land is a vital and irreplaceable resource for families and communities.

Le différend entre Babacar Ngom de Sedima Group et les populations de Ndingler n’est qu’une dernière affaire d’une longue liste de révoltes de populations privées de leurs terres au Sénégal

The massive Socfin oil palm plantation operation is one of post-war Sierra Leone’s biggest investments and one of its most controversial.

Nationalists want land issues to be handled independently by Sri Lanka because of fears that the MCC will be used to grab land for foreign investments, as has happened in Africa.

Update fropm the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, accountability mechanism for the World Bank's International Finance Corporation, on the complaint from Liberian communities regarding IFC’s investment in Salala Rubber Corporation of the Socfin group.

People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty, GRAIN, and Ponlok Khmer urged the government of Cambodia to return disputed land from Chinese company Hengfu Group Sugar Industry to the Khmer and Indigenous Kuy communities. The groups expressed solidarity with the Indigenous Kuy people who continue to assert their legitimate land rights even amid the global health crisis.

El informe, titulado “Acaparamiento de Tierras en Guatemala: una mirada desde los derechos humanos y los feminismos críticos de América Latina” fue presentado ayer, viernes, en una mesa redonda online y en el marco del Fórum Social Mundial de las Economías Transformadoras.

Dos 49,8 milhões de hectares de florestas sob responsabilidade estadual e federal, 11,6 milhões de hectares foram declarados irregularmente como imóveis rurais, de uso particular, no Sistema Nacional de Cadastro Ambiental Rural.

Socfin, a Belgian holding company that operates palm oil and rubber plantations through dozens of subsidiaries across Africa and Southeast Asia, has been rebuked for alleged human rights violations at its plantations.

Mbonjo sits in the heart of Cameroon’s country’s largest oil palm and rubber-producing region and owned by the Belgian holding company Socfin.

Selon la Convergence malienne contre les accaparements de terres cette agression au domicile de son porte-parole visait soit de «l’enlever ou de l’assassiner ».

Le RIAO-RDC est très préoccupé de la vente/transfert de la majorité des actifs de Feronia-PHC par la banque de développement de la Grande-Bretagne à une entité à l’Île de Maurice gérer par une société de capital-investissement.

Les terres des paysans ne sont pas protégées contre l’accaparement par les grandes entreprises de l’agro-business selon les organisations membres du Programme de souveraineté alimentaire et droits citoyens des unités familiales au Nord et au Centre-Nord du Burkina Faso

A video investigation on allegations of fraud and human rights abuses in billion-dollar land deals in West Papua, Indonesia to develop oil palm plantation.

Aquisições de terras em larga escala — que cobrem pelo menos 200 hectares — contribuem para a destruição das florestas tropicais.