New step towards a Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations and Humans Rights
We share here the Declaration of the Global Campaign for the closing of this 4th session of the Working Group, which highlights some key elements for the elaboration of a meaningful instrument that allows those affected to have access to effective justice
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Court orders chilean company, Arauco, to return land to the Mapuche community
On September 28, the Chilean courts ruled in favor of the Ignacio Huilipán community, located in the Contulmo Commune, Bío Bío region.
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Letter from the Collective of Women affected by monoculture oil palm from Gabon to FAO
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 denouncing the impacts they are suffering.
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Sign on statement: “RSPO: failing to eliminate violence and destruction from the industrial palm oil sector”
Friends of the Earth International and the World Rainforest Movement have launched an international sign-on statement denouncing the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).
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Peru: forest inhabited by the indigenous Shawi to be handed over to Canadian mining firm
The indigenous Shawi people repeat their call for protests in defense of their territory in the tropical rainforest. This time the threat is in the form of the world’s leading gold mining company: Barrick Gold Corporation.
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Demand Swedish Energy Agency to suspend future payments to Green Resources and cancel the deal for purchase of carbon credits!
Demand Swedish Energy Agency to suspend future payments to Green Resources and cancel the deal for purchase of carbon credits! The...
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India: stop evictions from tiger reserves!
India: stop evictions from tiger reserves! Hundreds of Baiga people rallied on March 2018 to oppose the authorities’ attempts to evict...
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World March of Women: International Women’s Day Declaration
On the 8th of March2018, International Women’s Day, we from the World March of Women, diverse women from all peoples, races and ages,...
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Certifying oil palm company Socapalm despite evident abuses
The sixth and latest issue of the magazine “Trait d’Union“, a trimestral magazine and liaison of the associations of populations...
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Yakuchaski Warmikuna (Women Messengers of the Rivers)
An audiovisual production made in indigenous Shiwiar territory in the Ecuadorian Amazon exposes the reality and resistance of peoples...
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Marching forward: Women, resistance and counter-power:
The Transnational Institute’s State of Power 2018 report highlights three interviews with women activists who have displayed incredible...
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The Brazilian Energy Model and Violations of Women’s Rights
The Movement of Dam-Affected peoples in Brazil (MAB, by its Portuguese acronym) warns that the construction of dams affects women more...
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Women and palm oil: A day in the life of a female palm oil worker
A video from the Center for International Forestry Research shows a day of Magdalena Pandan, a 35-year-old oil palm plantation worker in...
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No to ProSavana Campaign: Peoples’ Declaration
The Third Triangular Conference of the Peoples—organized by the No to ProSavana Campaign—brought together people and organizations...
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Sengwer people cry for help in the Embobut Forest, Kenya
The Sengwer are indigenous people who live in the Embobut forest in the Cherangani Hills in Kenya. Since British colonial rule, the Sengwer...
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Brazil: Land occupation wins award for producing food free of agrochemicals while restoring the forest
Since 2003, the camp that bears the name of environmentalist, José Lutzenberger, has reconciled the production of foods free of...
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Widespread abuse and rights violations funded by big conservation organizations
A new Survival International report documents serious instances of widespread and systematic human rights abuses between 1989 and the...
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Treaty on Transnational Corporations and Human Rights
In October, the Inter-governmental Working Group of the United Nations Human Rights Council met in Geneva to develop an “an...
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Women landowners in Central Bougainville block the Panguna Mine pact
Women protesters led a blockade against the Panguna copper mine to prevent the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoA) between the...
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Harassed by palm oil company, villagers in Thailand defend land
In November 2012, two women were found dead at the edge of a palm oil plantation. The death were understood as a clear warning to the Klong...
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From REDD+ projects to ‘jurisdictional REDD+’: more bad news for the climate and communities
For many people, REDD+ is about projects that save forests. In reality, however, REDD+ has never been about protecting forests and also no...
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Save Ampasindava Peninsula in Madagascar!
A mining project threatens to forever destroy the Ampasindava Peninsula—an area that is home to some 33,000 people, primarily in...
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Stop Extractive Mining in Panama!
Mining-affected communities in Panama, environmental organizations, human rights defenders, and social and citizens’ movements in the...
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The Right to Resist Land Grabs!
Millions of traditional, peasant and indigenous peoples’ communities around the world have limited access to their land and forests...
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Philippines bans new open-pit metal mines
The powerful evidence of massive injury to communities and water supplies in the Philippines, and findings of rampant violations of...
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Rio Tinto’s biodiversity offset project in Madagascar imposes severe restrictions on local communities
QMM, the Malagasy branch of Rio Tinto, a British-Australian mining company, is extracting ilmenite in Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, to export...
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Norway: divest from eucalyptus plantations!
The Norwegian Solidarity Committee for Latin America raises debates about the ethical principles behind Norwegian investments. They...
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Honduras: The deadliest country in the world for environmental activism
More than 120 people have been killed in Honduras since 2009 for standing up to companies that grab land and destroy forests, a January...
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French Guyana: The French government is quietly promoting the industrialization of gold mining in French Guyana
If the project goes ahead, the Montagne d’Or project, scheduled to start mining in 2018, would become the largest gold mine on French...
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India: BBC investigation reveals deadly toll of shoot-to-kill policy in tiger reserves
Across the world, indigenous peoples face arrests, harassment, torture and death in the name of nature conservation. The Kaziranga National...
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Malaysia: Stop recognising plantations as forests, FAO is told
On 21 March 2017, Malaysian NGOs The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) and Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) joined worldwide action...
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Indonesia: Protests on Java against forest destruction by the expanding cement industry
In Indonesia, resistance against the cement production complex of the Indonesian company Semen Indonesia which willl destroy the Kendeng...
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Belgium: Field Liberation Movement Takes Action Against GE Trees
At the end of the climate summit in Marrakesh in December 2016, 20 activists from the Field Liberation Movement in Belgium planted a...
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Brazil: Land for food production, not pulp for export
In the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, the Landless Peasant Movement MST is occupying some 400 hectares of land appropriated by pulp...
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Chile: New wave of forest fires
Organizations in Chile demand an end to the national policy and instruments that have been created to favor the development of tree...
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Sign-on letter to the FAO
The UN has declared the 21st of March ‘International Day of Forests’. We will use the occasion to remind the FAO that it must...
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Madagascar: Citizens’ protests put Soamahamanina mining project on hold
Five villagers arbitrarily arrested in September 2016 during protests against a Jiuxing Mines gold mining project located 70km west of the...
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USA: National Meeting Makes Plans to Stop Genetically Engineered Trees
Indigenous peoples, scientists, lawyers and environmental experts met October 12-18 to discuss impacts of and strategies to halt...
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Cameroon: Peasant association calls on Socfin to act on promises
The National Association of Peasant and River Populations of Cameroon, Synaparcam, called for peaceful marches on 14 November on roads...
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REDD+ in Central America: it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission
This text is an initial attempt to understand the dynamics of development and implementation of REDD+ projects in Central America...
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Protect Liberia’s unique forest heritage!
Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), a palm oil company, holds hundreds of thousands hectares of land as an agricultural concession. GVL is now...
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India: The Parliament violates forest people’s rights and promotes further plantations
The Indian Parliament approved this July a passage from the Compensatory Afforestation Fund, better known as CAMPA Bill, which seeks to...
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Strategies and tactics companies use to promote the expansion of oil palm plantations in the face of resistance from surrounding communities
From January 28-31, 2016, in Mundemba in southwest Cameroon, two international meetings took place on the expansion of oil palm...
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Rio Tinto’s biodiversity offset in Madagascar: How culture and religion are used to enforce restrictions
In September 2015, Re:Common and WRM investigated one of the most widely advertised biodiversity compensation initiatives in the mining...
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“Consultation” as a tool of exclusion: A choreography that hides land grabbing
There is much talk today about the importance of the consultation process with local communities before the arrival of mega projects that...
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Congo Basin Rainforest Project: Communities leery of “Conservation Revolution”
. The Mai N’dombe REDD project in the Democratic Republic of Congo features regularly in promotional material on REDD+. The...
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Keep fossil fuels in the ground: a declaration for the health of Mother Earth
A declaration to be launched during the UN climate negotiations aims to draw attention to the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground and...
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Brazil: a mining-induced ecological and social disaster – How much longer?
On November 5th, one of the largest environmental disasters in the history of Brazil occurred. Two dams operated by mining company...
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Philippines: Resisting Land Grabbing and Corporate Oil Palm Plantations
In early November, a gathering of peasants and indigenous peoples from Mindanao, Bohol and Palawan, denounced the government’s plan to...
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Corridors of Resistance: Stopping oil and gas pipelines
The Unist’ot’en camp in North-Western British Colombia, Canada, has since 2011 been maintaining a check-point to control access through...
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India: Appeal to the government and the UN on indigenous forest communities’ rights
The Indian government is producing many proposals to make more profit from the country’s forests. These include wider application of...
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Leave fossil fuels in the ground! A call for an “Annex 0” group, supported up by the Shuar Nationality of Pastaza in Ecuador
The Oilwatch network has issued an international call for creating an “Annex 0” group at the UN climate negotiations. This would mean a...
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Together, we can cool the planet!
A new video by La Vía Campesina and GRAIN is part of a campaign to highlight the key role of the industrialized food system to the climate...
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Civil Society says NO to “Climate Smart Agriculture”
An international statement signed by over 250 organizations and movements from around the world expresses deep concerns about the growing...
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La Via Campesina: Call to Action for UN climate talks in Paris
Climate disruptions cause widespread hunger, migration and the worsening of living conditions for millions of rural families, especially...
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Brazil: Stop eucalyptus monoculture plantations!
On September 21, about 300 indigenous peoples occupied the Nedila property in the municipality of Prado Bahia, Brazil, where the Suzano...
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Moratorium on the Baram Dam in Sarawak, Malaysia, approved!
After two years of blocking all work on the proposed Baram Dam in Sarawak, Malaysia, the indigenous peoples have scored a major victory:...
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Stop privatizing India’s Forests!
A Press Release by All India Forum of Forest Movements (AIFFM) denounces the Government of India allowing “forest concessions” to...
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The Durban Declaration against REDD
The Global Coalition Against REDD in alliance with the No REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) and supported by many international organizations...
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Brazil: Rising profits do not prevent layoffs: Fibria Celulosa in Mato Grosso do Sul
On August 25, 2015, employees of the Fibria Company in Tres Lagunas, Mato Grosso do Sul, made public the recent layoffs made by the company...
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Save the Mekong Rivers!
Rivers Coalition in Cambodia (RCC) together with national and international organizations, insist to immediately stop all activities...
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Plantations are not forests!
In September 2015, the UN Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO) will held the World Forestry Congress in Durban, South Africa, on the...
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Blood Timber: How Europe played a significant role in funding war in Central African Republic
In 2013, the Central African Republic was plunged into a conflict that has cost over 5,000 lives and displaced more than a million people....
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Large-scale logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo
A video from the NGO Global Witness, who visited many communities in DRC directly impacted by the logging industry, shows the reality of...
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Movement update of resistance against POSCO in Odisha, India
The protests against the establishment of POSCO’s steel plant in the Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha, India, are determined to continue...
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Manifesto for the International Day for the defense of the mangrove forests
Since 2004, through the International ‘Redmanglar’ (Mangrove Network) – which brings together communities, organizations,...
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Broken Promises in Malaysia: Displaced by Dams
The construction of three mega dams in Malaysia has displaced tens of thousands of people and forced them into resettlement areas. A...
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Honduras’ Garifuna communities resist eviction and theft of land
Along the Atlantic coast of Honduras, Afro-Caribbean Garifuna communities are being threatened and forced from their land by proposals for...
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African women say No to coal
Coal kills people. Coal destroys health and communities’ well being. Coal devastates land, water and ecosystems and Coal is destroying...
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India: Slavery and child labour in granite quarries
India is the second largest exporter of granite, much of which ends up on the European market. The main buyers of granite are the...
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Furthering mining in Africa in a Summit held at the centre of mining finance
Members of African and UK civil society and communities sent a letter to the “Mining on Top Africa: London Summit” – a decisive...
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Yes to Life, No to Mining!
Conceived in 2012 by a group of individuals, organisations and networks, the “Yes to Life, No to Mining” movement is committed to take...
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Oilwatch Africa: “We Will Not Eat Crude Oil”
Members of Oilwatch Africa network met in Lome, Togo, on 9 June 2015, to discuss the implications of the world’s dependence on fossil...
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Maputo Declaration of African Civil Society on Climate Justice
Climate justice advocates and community and movements’ representatives met in Maputo, Mozambique from 21-23...
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Dakar to Tunis: Declaration against water and land grabbing
The Africa Social Forum that took place in Dakar in October 2014 released the Declaration against Water and Land grabbing, which affirms...
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Brazil: Three indigenous leaders and forest defenders were murdered
Three indigenous leaders were ambushed by gunmen hired by loggers and landowners, as reported by the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI)....
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Guatemala: neighborhood action against dams that deprive communities of water
Communities of the middle and lower basins of Madre Vieja River on the Pacific side of Guatemala are being deprived of water because of...
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ProSavana Plan in Mozambique is out and threatening peasants’ land
Peasants in northern Mozambique are struggling to keep their lands and water sources, as governments and foreign companies move...
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Bolloré and Socfin count their profits in Luxemburg while conflicts persist in their African and Asian plantations
While the shareholders of Socfin hold their annual general meeting at the Bel-Air Hotel in Luxembourg on 27 May, 300 people from six...
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Stop the corporate fire in Chile! Forest fires and their causes
Forest fires in the south of Chile have been very aggressive this year, affecting thousands of hectares of forests from three protected...
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Wilmar International: Destroying lives for profit
The radio program Growing Voices, from Radio Mundo Real, discusses the impacts of the highly criticized Wilmar International, one of the...
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African resistance to land grabs by plantation companies Bolloré and Socfin
Peasant farmers deprived of their lands launch a series of occupations on Socfin’s plantations in Cameroon, Liberia, Cambodia and Côte...
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Honduras: 2015 Goldman Prize awarded to Berta Caceres
In a country with growing socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations, Berta Cáceres played a key role in the struggle of the...
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Women peasants preventing GM trees release in Brazil!
In the morning of 5 March 2015, 1,000 women from the Landless Rural Workers Movement in Brazil (MST) occupied the area of field trials...
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US Greenlights First GE Tree for commercialization
In an unprecedented and alarming move, the United States Department of Agriculture has given GE tree company ArborGen permission to pursue...
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Activate Resistance against Monocultures
A video produced by Radio Mundo Real, in collaboration with the Alliance for Biodiversity, Friends of the Earth Latin America and the...
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International Women’s Day: Until we are all free!
March 8, International Women’s Day, is also the launch date of the World March of Women’s (WMW) Fourth International Action. The World...
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Women’s Struggle: for Food Sovereignty; against violence and agribusiness!
The international network of peasants, La Via Campesina, calls for the coordination of actions during the International Women’s Day to...
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A grandmother standing up to mining and logging companies in the Solomon Islands
When mining and logging companies come to villages asking for resource rights, how can communities make an informed decision without truly...
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Máxima’s story: a peasant woman confronts a powerful mining company in Peru
Máxima Acuña, a mother of four in the northern Andes of Peru who was never able to learn to read or write, won a lawsuit against the...
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Femicide and Impunity: A humanitarian crisis in Central America, and a growing problem worldwide
El Salvador has the highest rate of femicide in the world, Guatemala the third and Honduras the seventh. In Guatemala and Honduras only 2%...
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In defence of life in the Amazon, humanity and the planet
Leaders of indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon participating in the World Social Forum on Biodiversity held in Manaus, Brazil in...
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Nigeria: Tales of Grabland
A documentary from “Land Justice for West Africa” shows how Ogoni communities, already affected severely by the oil industry in the...
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Papua-Wide meeting calls for 10 year Moratorium on Plantation and Forestry Industries
Representatives of indigenous communities, environmentalists and human rights defenders from all over West Papua met in Jayapura (4th-7th...
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“This Land is for All of We”: A Rama community in Bangkukuk, Nicaragua, speaks out about the Grand Canal Project
For centuries, the Rama people have lived on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. In June of 2013, the Nicaraguan government signed an...
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Ecuador: Chevron-Texaco to pay for the devastation it caused in the Amazon
The Union for Those Affected by Texaco Operations (UDAPT) has been fighting for more than 20 years to force Chevron-Texaco to pay for the...
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Declaration of the People’s Summit on Climate Change, Lima, Peru
The People’s Summit on Climate Change was held December 8-11 in opposition to the false solutions being discussed at the UN climate...
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Legal action in defence of the rights of nature of the Tangabana páramo
The Ecuadorian environmental defence organization YASunidos has joined with Acción Ecológica and the indigenous pastorate of Chimborazo...
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Women fighting against extractive industries
During the UN climate negotiations in Lima, the World March of Women expressed its active solidarity with Máxima Acuña, who is facing...
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How the industrial food system contributes to the climate crisis
The non-profit organization GRAIN has released an educational pamphlet that clearly demonstrates the fundamental role of the industrial...
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