World Rainforest Movement
One of the common characteristics of the advance of the direct drivers of deforestation (such as tree plantations, mining, oil extraction, hydrodams, etc.), as well as in the creation of ´protected areas´ or ´sustainable forest management´ areas, and REDD+ projects, is the violation of human rights. Globally, criminalization and assassination of community leaders and NGO activists is on the rise, related to an increase of conflicts, especially related to land issues, as result of the general tendency of increasing land and forest grabbing.
We invite organizations to sign on and support the statement, which denounces that the RSPO, since it was created 14 years ago, has been a tool that served the corporate interests of the oil palm sector
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Berta Cáceres, coordinator of the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), was murdered on March 2, 2016. Organizations around the world rose up in protest in Berta’s name. She is yet another victim...
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Dear friends, We need your urgent support. The Ekuri People’s ancestral land in Nigeria is under threat. The people of Ekuri live in Cross River State in the southeast corner of Nigeria almost on the border with Cameroon, deep in the...
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Herakles Farms is engaged in the development of a controversial 20,000 ha oil palm plantation in the South-West Region of Cameroon that faces strong opposition from affected communities. Nasako Besingi and his NGO, Struggle to Economise...
read moreThe Xe Pian Xe Namnoy Dam collapse in Lao PDR: Will the Mekong region learn from this?
Peru: forest inhabited by the indigenous Shawi to be handed over to Canadian mining firm
Nigeria: Okomu’s oil palm plantations bring misery for women living in their vicinity
Liberia: Women raising their voices in decision-making processes
Letter from the Collective of Women affected by monoculture oil palm from Gabon to FAO
Indonesia: Oil palm plantations and their trace of violence against women
Indonesia: Exploitation of women and violation of their rights in oil palm plantations
India: Plantations uproot women from their customary forests
Fires, forests and peoples: knowledge and practices under threat
Dekel Oil’s false promises lure villagers into dangerous oil palm growing contracts in Cote d’Ivoire
Covered under the shade of oil palm companies in Cameroon: A recount of the abuses that women suffer
Cameroon: Urban and Rural Activists Against Industrial Plantations’ Abuses Towards Women
Cameroon: Local women besieged by the military, guardians of the palm oil plantations of SOCAPALM
Agribusiness and environmental injustice: impacts on the health of rural women
Women in the anti-mining struggle in El Salvador: “We are that swarm of bees”
The Philippines: Defending the defenders, defending their rights
Philippines: Women call to stop the bombings in Marawi and to revoke Martial Law in Mindanao
India: BBC investigation reveals deadly toll of shoot-to-kill policy in tiger reserves
Honduras: The deadliest country in the world for environmental activism
Brazil and land rights: A historical struggle that continues and intensifies
“Consultation” as a tool of exclusion: A choreography that hides land grabbing
Mozambique: Denunciation of the partnership between WWF and ProSavana
Women’s Struggle: for Food Sovereignty; against violence and agribusiness!
Why are we in jail? A women’s fight against injustice and domination in India
The tree plantation and paper industry pollutes water: Communities in Indonesia affected by APP
Movement update of resistance against POSCO in Odisha, India
Mining, militarization and criminalization of social protests in Latin America
Máxima’s story: a peasant woman confronts a powerful mining company in Peru
Living on the run: devastation of the Ayoreos’ lives and land at the hands of livestock farmers
Ghana’s Mining Sector Regime: A Bad Deal for Affected Local Communities
Femicide and Impunity: A humanitarian crisis in Central America, and a growing problem worldwide
Brazil: Three indigenous leaders and forest defenders were murdered
Brazil: a mining-induced ecological and social disaster – How much longer?
Blood Timber: How Europe played a significant role in funding war in Central African Republic
Thailand’s New ‘Forestry Master Plan’: Same old strategy dressed up in new clothes
Social movements celebrate historic vote at the United Nations Human Rights Council
Petition to stop harassment of a defender of earth and water in Peru: Yes to Water, No to Mining!
One of capitalism’s false solutions to its crisis: strengthening patriarchy
Nigeria: Okomu Oil Palm Company – destroying communities for oil palm expansion
International Day in Defense of Peasants’ and Farmers’ Seeds
Demand Justice for the Amazon Indigenous leaders murdered by loggers
Brazil: Sexual exploitation of women and mega-dam construction in the Amazon
A step further on the path to an international declaration on the rights of peasants
Solidarity with the community of Cumbe, Ceará, Brazil against their criminalization
Sierra Leone farmers reject land grab for oil palm plantation
Remembering Laotian community activist Sombath Somphone one year after his disappearance
Philippines: Indigenous women impacted by militarization for large-scale mining
Opposition to mining in Guatemala leads to repression and death
Nigeria: Environmentalist threatened for his denounces against Wilmar’s oil palm plantations
Modern-day slavery in oil palm plantations: The outstanding cases of Malaysia and Indonesia
Mapuche conflict in Chile: The need for dialogue to address historic demands
Ecuador: Ancestral peoples of the mangrove forests attacked and evicted
Corporations respecting human rights: An impossible combination
Climate activists released from lawsuit by energy company EDF
Attac France urges EDF to abandon its lawsuits against climate justice activists in the UK
Women oil palm plantation workers in Asia: Gender inequity and exploitation
Sierra Leone: Socfin´s oil palm plantations violating human rights
Phillipines: Oil palm company A. Brown grabs Higaonon indigenous people’s lands
Open letter against the “green economy” and in favour of life
Oil palm plantation workers in Central America: The experience of Rel-UITA
Malaysia: Industrial acacia plantations violate and threaten the rights of Indigenous Peoples
Indonesia: Police Brutality in support of the Bima Gold Mine Project
India: Michelin factory menaces forest of the “untouchables”
In confronting the climate crisis, what rights should hold precedence?
Impacts of oil prospecting and exploration in Virunga National Park
Honduras: Women fighting for land against a backdrop of violence and murders
Environmental Human Rights Advocates Challenge REDD+ in Chiapas and in California
Chile: Mapuche communities reclaim ancestral lands stolen by tree plantation companies
Chile: Forest fires and repression, the legacy of the industrial tree plantation model
Brazil: Belo Monte, an illegal and immoral hydroelectric dam project that violates numerous rights
Mexico: REDD+ in Chiapas finances disease, death and intercommunity conflicts
Mega-projects and the criminalization of struggles to defend people’s rights in India and Honduras
APP and Cartiere Pigna try to intimidate social denounces in Italy of deforestation in Indonesia
Panama: Land dispute and violation of the Naso people’s Human Rights
México: Violent evictions in Chiapas for establishing oil palm monocultures
Honduras: empapada en sangre también por la palma de aceite – 3 nuevas víctimas
Brazil: Aracruz sows violence and destruction in Espirito Santo
Uganda: The Batwa issue declaration calling for their rights to be recognized
Uganda: Carbon sink plantation – where trees are more important than people
Peru: The silent genocide of the last uncontacted indigenous groups
Paraguay: Deforestation violates human rights of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation
Paraguay: Action to protect Indigenous Peoples in voluntary isolation cannot be delayed
Mexico: Opposition to Blackfire mining operations ends in murder
Kenya: Ogiek’s rights violated by climate change and by measures to stop it
Indonesia: Criminalization of social leader for the benefit of oil palm corporation
Human rights violated by climate change … and by the UN Climate Change Convention in Copenhagen!
Guatemala: Social and environmental impacts of oil palm plantations
“12 Replies to 12 Lies about Oil Palm Monoculture Plantations” has been updated. The publication now includes a chapter about how oil palm companies lie when they say they respect women’s rights.
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This publication is the result of a joint effort -carried out by the Forest Peoples Programme, Rainforest Foundation UK, Environmental Defense, Global Witness, SinksWatch, CDM Watch, Samata, Down to Earth and World Rainforest Movement- to...
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On November 9th, the Northern Peasant Federation of Thailand (NPF) will be leading a walk to ask for the cessation of the arrests and evictions of forest community members since the issuance of the National Council for Peace and Order...
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Final statement from the Global Campaign Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity regarding the Week of Mobilization to Stop Corporate Crimes and Impunity. July 2014 – The ongoing and past violations of human rights by...
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On November 12, with the endorsement of organizations from five continents, Friends of the Earth International and World Rainforest Movement publish an open statement denouncing the failure of the RSPO to eliminate the violence and destruction that oil palm plantations.
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Nine communities from the DR Congo took a historic step this week by filing a complaint with the complaints mechanism of the German development bank (Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft – DEG)
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International Press release. March 7, 2018. Women demand that oil palm companies stop violence and give back community land On 8 March, International Women’s Day, hundreds of organizations and individuals demand an end to the violence...
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Within the framework of September 21, International day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations, women affected by OLAM’s oil palm plantations, during a meeting in the village of Fera, in Gabon, decided to send a letter to FAO...
read more We invite organizations to sign on and support the statement, which denounces that the RSPO, since it was created 14 years ago, has been a tool that served the corporate interests of the oil palm sector
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We said it in Mundemba, Cameroon, we reiterated it in Port Loko, Sierra Leone, we re-affirm this in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire: the abuse against women in and around industrial oil palm plantations must STOP!
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Bila anda melakukan perjalanan dari kota Palangkaraya sampai ke kota Nangabulik, ibukota kabupaten Lamandau, Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah, anda akan melihat lanskap tunggal berupa perkebunan sawit.
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Only available in Spanish. Convocatoria del COPINH (Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras): El 2 de marzo de 2016 asesinaron a nuestra hermana Berta Caceres. Creían de esta forma acabar no solo con la...
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Only available in Spanish América Latina, 02 de marzo de 2017 A un año del asesinato de Berta Cáceres A un año del intento de asesinato de nuestro compañero Gustavo Castro La Red Latinoamericana contra los Monocultivos de Árboles...
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Voices from the Global Convergence of Land and Water Struggles. Small-scale food producers and consumers – the frontline communities – are increasingly confronted by the grabbing of land and systematic violations of human rights....
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We share below the letter sent by Acción Ecológica thanking all the support received from the international level. We emphasize that, even though Acción Ecológica is still open, the legislation that allowed two Ministries to ask for...
read more América Latina, 26 de diciembre de 2016 La Red Latinoamericana contra los Monocultivos de Árboles (RECOMA) expresa su apoyo y solidaridad con nuestra organización hermana Acción Ecológica (AE) ante la amenaza de clausura que recibiera...
read more Letter to be sent to: Dr Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador rafael.correa@presidencia.gob.ec Ministro de Ambiente walter.garcia@ambiente.gob.ec, wgarcia@ambiente.gob.ec, Ministro Interior fuentesd@outlook.com C/C...
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Acción Ecológica denounces the request made by Diego Torres Saldaña, Deputy Minister of Internal Security, to the Minister of Environment to set in motion an administrative procedure that would dissolve our organization on the ground...
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The Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, 6 months after the assassination of COPINH’s General Coordinator, hereby states that: The assassination of the woman who served as COPINH’s General Coordinator and...
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The recently released Newsletter from Focus on the Global South draws attention to the alarming escalation of violence against communities, criminalization of dissent, and the systemic impunity that allows this to happen. Ten articles...
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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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Only abvailable in Spanish. Por Giorgio Trucchi El Ministerio Público hondureño dio a conocer la detención de cuatro sospechosos del asesinato de Berta Cáceres, un teniente retirado del ejército y subjefe de seguridad de DESA, un...
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The Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) of Brazil released its Notebook on Field Conflicts 2015 last April 15. The research data reveal a terrible reality. Last year there were 50 murders. And impunity reigns. Worsening the situation: 59...
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Please, click here to sign-on: https://secure.avaaz.org/po/petition/cepedescepedesorgbr_ Liberdade_para_o_Cacique_Babau_e_seu_irmao_Jose_Aelson/ We inform that on April 11, the arbitrary imprisonment of Cacique Babau and his brother...
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The international peasant movement La Via Campesina denounces to the national and international public that on this day, 3 March 2016 in the early hours of dawn, our dear sister in struggle, BERTHA CÁCERES, General Coordinator of the...
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10 February 2016 | Press release – A day before the start of yet another trial brought on the Bolloré Group against French journalists, organisations denounce the imprisonment of six local community leaders affected by the...
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An article from the “Food and Environment Reporting Network” highlights an investigation into the hidden toll of World Bank–financed development projects, which shows how evictions, loss of family income and other hardships...
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November 9, 2015 Oakland, CA—Cameroonian authorities must stop the harassment of Nasako Besingi, environmental human rights defender, according to an international coalition of civil society organizations including the Oakland Institute,...
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Peasant seeds – the pillar of food production – are under attack everywhere. Under corporate pressure, laws in many countries increasingly limit what farmers can do with their seeds. Seed saving, which has been the basis of farming for...
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An article in the newspaper “El País” shows the intense violence experienced by the people of the valley of Bajo Aguán, in Honduras, who are struggling to regain land that was captured long ago by Dinant Corporation for its...
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Malaysian palm oil industry, which produces 40 per cent of the world’s palm oil supply, is growing but, according to labourers and activists interviewed by a Wall Street Journal report, also surrounded with abuses. Migrant workers,...
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In 2013, the Rapporteur on human rights to the environment (RDHMA, for its Portuguese acronym), from the DhESCA Platform, conducted a Research and Advocacy Mission in the state of Acre on the green economy problematic and its political and...
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Hundreds of people are detained in Indonesia for having claimed their rights on their land, forests and other resources while resisting eviction and land grabs. The reality is that Indonesia’s Forest Law on Prevention and Eradication of...
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An investigation focused on the river port of Pucallpa, Ucayali, in the Peruvian Amazon, reveals that women serving in the bars around the harbor and those dedicated to the work in logging camp kitchens (legal and illegal) have been...
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Aklu Chero, a tribal leader protesting the construction of the dam, was shot at by the police on April 15. (Vipin Kumar/ HT Photos) Since April 14, 2015, the oustees of Kanhar Dam Project in the Sonbhadra distrct of the northern Indian...
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Press Release July 10, 2015, Geneva – Dozens of organizations and social movements mobilized this week in Geneva to send a strong message to the United Nations Human Rights Council, to urge them to take action against corporate...
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A recently released documentary exposing the world’s largest iron ore mining project shows the life of the communities impacted by the “Programa Grande Carajás” (Great Carajás Programme), located in the Brazilian states of...
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Press Release, Geneva, JULY 6, 2015 United Nations Human Rights Council: Social Movements support a binding treaty that will create obligations for transnational corporations to respect human rights The Global Campaign to Dismantle...
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Global Voices online, 12 June 2015. Friends of Jopi Peranginangin, an Indonesian environmentalist who was stabbed and killed in a bar in south Jakarta, are asking the government to lead a quick and transparent murder investigation....
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Water justice movements in Asia gathered in Daegu, Korea, for the Alternative Forum “Water for all” on April 13-14 in a common struggle to defend and realize our human right to water and keep water as part of the commons. The Forum...
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Food cannot be grown without water. In Africa, one in three people endure water scarcity and climate change makes things worse. Africa’s sophisticated indigenous water systems are being destroyed by large-scale land grabs amidst claims...
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The report is authored by GRAIN and RIAO-RDC in collaboration with Fundación Mundubat, War on Want, Association Française d’Amitié et de Solidarité avec les Peuples d’Afrique, World Rainforest Movement, Food First,...
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The opinion article from the Jakarta Post by Abetnego Tarigan, of the Indonesian NGO Walhi, and Iwan Nurdin, of the Agrarian Reform Consortium, warns on how the international focus on the impacts of plantation companies has been on their...
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JAMBI-INDONESIA: A farmer and environmental defenders activist murdered by Security Force of PT. WKS (Wirakarya Sakti), a subsidiary of APP (Asia Pulp and Paper – Sinar Mas Group). Indonesian Forum for Environment (WALHI) – Friends of...
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Fact-finding and advocacy mission preliminary report, by Cristiane Faustino y Fabrina Furtado Download the preliminary report as pdf...
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Herrn Minister Gerd Müller Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) Stresemannstraße 94 10963 Berlin Frau Ministerin Dr. Barbara Hendricks Bundesministerium für Umwelt,...
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Also available in Deutch Minister Dr. Gerd Müller Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (BMZ) Stresemannstraße 94 10963 Berlin Minister Dr. Barbara Hendricks Bundesministerium für Umwelt,...
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Only available in Portuguese. Download the full letter as pdf Montevideo, 30 de setembro de 2014 À Secretaria de Segurança Pública do estado do Acre A/C Sr. Ildor Reni Graebner Avenida Getulio Vargas, nº. 232 – Subsolo do Palácio...
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Women from all corners of the Southern African region descended on Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, to participate in the People’s Summit. They aimed to share their experiences on how they have been affected either by decisions made by governments...
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Acción Ecológica (in Spanish, with English subtitles) Neither free, nor prior, nor informed. An independently produced video exposes the so-called prior consultation of indigenous peoples conducted during the 11th Oil Round (an auction...
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Press release by GRAIN | Oakland Institute | World Rainforest Movement Contacts: Nasako Besingi, Struggle to Economize Future Environment (SEFE) +23775136000 nasako.bondoko@gmail.com Frederic Mousseau, Oakland Institute (FR, EN) +1510...
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Environmental Justice Atlas, by EJOLT, a large EU project bringing science and society together to catalogue ecological distribution conflicts and resistance struggles. The interactive map describes in detail 900+ cases of environmental...
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First-hand testimony of Andaman tribe reveals sexual exploitation – In an audio recording obtained by Survival International, a young Jarawa man reports that poachers regularly enter his tribe’s protected reserve and lure young...
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Around the world ‘development’ is robbing tribal people of their land, self-sufficiency and pride and leaving them with nothing. “There you go” is a short, satirical film, from Survival International, that tells the story of how...
read more By Joseph Rahall and Milton Kainyande – Green Scenery On the 9th of December 2013, in the early morning hours, Green Scenery office in Freetown received a call from Malen chiefdom stating that a squad of Operations Special...
read more Herakles Farms is engaged in the development of a controversial 20,000 ha oil palm plantation in the South-West Region of Cameroon that faces strong opposition from affected communities. Nasako Besingi and his NGO, Struggle to Economise...
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The documentary video “Bajo Aguán: Cry for the Land” presented in Spanish in Honduras on December 10 during a Human Rights Forum organized by the Committee of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared (see Bulletin 185), has been...
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ACTION ALERT – THE PHILIPPINES The indigenous peoples (Higaonons) and peasants of Opol in Misamis Oriental in Southern Philippines are currently struggling against land grabbing resulting from a monoculture oil palm plantation,...
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“The dark side of investment agreements” is a new video by TNI that explains how such agreements bind governments to the power of Transnational corporations leaving them no room for defensive measures against human rights...
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Land owners in Cote d’Ivoire are trapped in contracts with Dekel Oil, a company that made false promises arguing villagers would become rich by signing contracts to let oil palm monocultures on their land.
read more Honduras, que fue uno de los principales productores de granos básicos de Centroamérica, ha pasado a producir la mitad de sus necesidades. 2,8 millones de hondureños del área rural viven con un nivel de ingreso inferior a la línea de...
read more In a study published recently in Germany on Climate and Development, we find the following statements: “Poverty affects many, too many people – and it affects men and women differently and in different numbers. Most of the poor are...
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Lower Aguan river valley, the clamor for land from ALBASUD on Vimeo. Produced by Alba Sud and Rel-UITA, with the collaboration of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), FIAN International and the Coordinating Committee of Popular...
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By the World Rainforest Movement and Forest and Biodiversity Program of Friends of the Earth International Screenplay: Flavio Pazos Script: WRM International Secretariat Team Voices: Cecilia Carrère, Ana Filippini, Raquel Nuñez, Teresa...
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