Africa: The World Cup and reality
Every four years millions of people throughout the world suddenly become football fans. Many of us know that the organizer –FIFA- is a huge and corrupt money-making machine. We also (Read More)
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COMMUNITIES AND FORESTS
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Brazil: Juma REDD test case in the Amazon
At present, the initiative for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is rather a collection of proposals and some pilot schemes. However, it is being strongly pushed and (Read More)
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Bolivia: Hydroelectric dams on the Madera River denounced at the People’s Permanent Tribunal
On 14 and 15 March, the Third Session of the People’s Permanent Tribunal was held in Madrid (Spain). This is an activity promoted by the Bi-regional Europe-Latin America and Caribbean (Read More)
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Posco: Bad for India, bad for Uruguay and bad for the climate
As we reported in October 2009, the Korean steel company POSCO has been granted the opportunity both in India and in Uruguay to occupy territory that is valued by the (Read More)
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Paraguay: Report on the Ayoreo People by IWGIA
The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) has issued a report on the indigenous Ayoreo people in Paraguay and the injustices they have been experiencing due to the expansion (Read More)
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Papua New Guinea: Indigenous peoples lose their rights to investors
We are witnessing a global process of agribusiness expansion and land grabbing in the South. Through lease, concession, even purchase, corporations or foreign states take over large areas of farmland (Read More)
COMMUNITIES AND TREE MONOCULTURES
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French economic group Bolloré attempts to intimidate journalists who expose abusive practices on its plantations in Cameroon
Targeting the media This past May 6, journalist Benoît Collombat and two Radio France Inter directors were convicted of defamation in a lawsuit filed by Vincent Bolloré, CEO of the (Read More)
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Cameroon: Refuting ten lies about SOCAPALM plantations
After French industrialist Vincent Bolloré filed two lawsuits against Radio France Inter, both for alleged defamation regarding plantations operated by SOCAPALM (Société Camerounaise de Palmeraies), photographer Isabelle Alexandra Ricq and (Read More)
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Uruguay: A new opportunity for much-needed debate on the pulp-plantation model
Over the last few years, Uruguay has gained international attention as a result of the drawn-out conflict with Argentina over plans for the installation of two “mega” pulp mills in (Read More)
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Chile: Professional foresters denounce violations by company certified by CERTFOR and FSC
Tree plantations owned and operated by Forestal Valdivia S.A., a subsidiary of the Arauco group, have not only been granted certification by the Chilean sustainable forest management system CERTFOR (backed (Read More)
GLOBAL EUROPE: IN THE QUEST FOR SOUTHERN MARKETS
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Free Trade Agreements with the European Union in Latin America: A path to the loss of sovereignty and territories
A group of Latin American social organizations (1) met in Montevideo to examine the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) that the European Union (EU) signed last May with Central America, Colombia (Read More)
CARBON TRADING
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What is carbon trading for?
Patrick Birley, the Chief Executive of the European Climate Exchange, knows a thing or two about carbon trading. He should do. He claims that about 95 per cent of all (Read More)