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In 2009, the global food corporation Unilever sold its palm oil subsidiary Plantations et huileries du Congo (PHC) to Feronia, a company listed on the Toronto stock exchange. European development banks are major funders and shareholders of...
read moreWWF in the DRC’s Salonga National Park: Torture, Murder and Gang-Rape
Violent altercations at the Kahuzi Biega National Park, DRC, must stop!
(Swahili) Tafakari kutoka Afrika: Ishinde hofu ya kujenga vuguvugu imara la mabadiliko
Peasant communities and those dependent on the forests united in struggle
Democratic Republic of Congo: Turning peasant lands once more into oil palm monocultures
Widespread abuse and rights violations funded by big conservation organizations
Ibi Bateke tree planting project in DRC: Sold as the success it never was
FERONIA in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Harassment, violence and oppression
Protected Areas in the Congo Basin: Failing both people and biodiversity
Infrastructure, development and natural resources in Africa: A few examples from Cameroon
DRC: Communities mobilise to free themselves from a hundred years of colonial oil palm plantations
Congo Basin Rainforest Project: Communities leery of “Conservation Revolution”
The expansion of industrial oil palm plantations in Africa: A call for greater solidarity and action
DRC: handing lands for industrial oil palm plantations, REDD and foreign investors
Uganda: The Batwa issue declaration calling for their rights to be recognized
Congo, D.R: Inga dams mean big business for corporations and no benefit for local communities
Democratic Republic of the Congo: The search for consensus on the Itombwe forests
Congo, DR: Doing away with forests, people and climate through logging
Pillage in the Democratic Republic of Congo certified in Uganda?
Congo, D.R: The case of the Twa of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park
Congo, D.R.: Will Zimbabwe become a member of the logging club?
Congo, D.R.: Millions of acres of forest under unsustainable logging
The report details abuses faced by communities affected by industrial oil palm plantations managed by the Congolese company Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC).
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A new report on the state of industrial oil palm plantations in Africa shows how communities are turning the tide on a massive land grab in the region.
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Only available in French.
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SWAHILI. Ripoti hii iliandaliwa na umoja wa shirika za kiraia za DRC na Ulaya. Ni muendelezo wa ripoti ya mwezi wa Juni mwaka 2015 ambayo ilitoa tahadhari kwa jumuiya ya kimataifa juu ya ukiukwaji wa haki za binadamu, umaskini,unyonyaji...
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GERMAN. Der Bericht wurde von einer Gruppe von Nicht-Regierungs-Organisationen aus der DR Kongo und Europa erarbeitet. Er vervollständigt bereits im Juni 2015 von den Organisationen RIAO-RDC und GRAIN veröffentlichte Informationen zur...
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LINGALA. Lapolo oyo esalemi na lisanga ya balobeli (société Civile) ya RDC mpe baye ba Europe. Ekomami na bolandaka lapolo mwa sanza ya motoba na mobu mwa 2015 oyo ezali kolakisa na lisanga mikili lolenge bosomi ya bomoto, ya mobola ya...
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The report is also available in German, in Lingala and Swahili.
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Report about how several prominent development finance institutions (DFIs) are funding Feronia Inc., a Canadian agribusiness company accused of land grabbing and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies presents summaries of reports from 24 REDD projects or programmes with a common characteristic: they all show a number of structural characteristics that undermine forest...
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Original version by Ricardo Carrere – updated by the WRM in 2013. Oil palm is a traditional native crop for West and Central African communities, who are used to either plant them on their lands or to collect fruits, leaves or sap...
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By Belmond Tchoumba This report is based on the fi ndings of research conducted by WRM on the REDD pilot project being undertaken by Conservation International and the Walt Disney Company in the province of North Kivu in the Democratic...
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The forest of the Congo Basin expands over an area of continuous tropical rainforest cover only second to that of the Amazon forest. The region’s forests are found in Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gabon,...
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Oil palm and rubber plantations are very similar in many respects, but there is something that clearly differentiates them: oil palm is a native species in many West African countries –and part of the culture of local peoples- while...
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A young man was killed and other people are still in prison. It was after a protest against the failure of the PHC company to provide local communities with any benefits after 100 years of illegally occupying their land.
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RIAO-RDC and international NGOs calls for the immediate release of community leaders and villagers from the communities of Mwingi, Bolesa and Yanongo who were arrested after a peaceful protest against the palm oil company PHC. An urgent action alert is open to sign-ons.
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More than 100 years ago, lands were stolen from communities in DR Congo for industrial oil palm production. Since 2009, those lands are under control of the company FERONIA.
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Community leaders and traditional chiefs in areas affected by the plantations of Canadian company PHC-Feronia in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continue to suffer all kinds of massive human rights violations.
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In a statement released on 14 August 2019, RIAO-RDC and support organisations call on DRC authorities to immediately find and arrest the murder suspect. Weeks have passed since the killing of Joël Imbangola Lunea without an arrest of the murder suspect.
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A member of the Congolese environmental and human rights organisation RIAO-RDC was brutally killed by a security guard of the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc. on Sunday, July 21, 2019, near the company’s Boteka plantations in Bempumba, Eqauteur Province, DRC.
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Where does all the gold processed in Switzerland come from? Switzerland is a country poor in raw materials and yet, every year, 70 per cent of the gold extracted in the world is refined there. Switzerland is home to four of the largest...
read more 2 November 2016. European and US development funds are bankrolling palm oil company Feronia Inc despite land and labour conflicts at its plantations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). New information now raises questions as to...
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This report aims to draw attention to violations and threats that environmental justice defenders in Central Africa are facing, specifically in the Congo Basin. The report is based on two studies. The first concerns the legal framework for...
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A video produced by GRAIN shows how rural women in West Africa are working to protect traditional palm oil production in the face of the destructive expansion of industrial oil palm plantations. See the video...
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A short film from the Rainforest Foundation UK about forest communities affected by the Tumba Lediima Reserve in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) shows how the communities living in the area established for the Reserved were, and...
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A report from the Rainforest Foundation UK, shows how attempts of community based forest management in the Congo Basin thus far have not been able to transfer meaningful rights or benefits to local communities. Only around 1% of the total...
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Several prominent development finance institutions (DFIs) are funding Feronia Inc., a Canadian agribusiness company accused of land grabbing and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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This video shows the struggle of communities that depend on the forests in the Republic of Congo, and that of their defenders, to reduce the impacts of deforestation and to guarantee their rights to manage and control their own...
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We have produced an interactive map that sumarizes some of the information gathered in the publication “Oil palm in Africa: past, present and future scenarios“. The publication contains a general introduction to the issue of oil...
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By Forests Monitor, 2001 Sold Down the River – The Need to Control Transnational Forestry Corporations: A European Case Study
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The video “NO to violence against women and girls living in and around oil palm plantations” denounces the violence against women in West and Central Africa whose lands have been invaded by industrial oil palm plantations.
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Industrial oil palm plantations are rapidly expanding, not only in Liberia. In many African countries expansion projects are happening and plans are announced. Everywhere they go, the companies promise jobs and development. Produced by the...
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