We are 40 participants who have united in Mundemba, Cameroon, for an international workshop on the tactics and strategies of oil palm companies, from 28 to 31 January 2016. We have gathered to share our experiences from Cameroon, West and Central Africa, Asia and South America, and to understand the realities of the local communities in Ndian Division, Southwest Region of Cameroon.
Large-Scale Tree Plantations
Industrial tree plantations are large-scale, intensively managed, even-aged monocultures, involving vast areas of fertile land under the control of plantation companies. Management of plantations involves the use of huge amounts of water as well as agrochemicals—which harm humans, and plants and animals in the plantations and surrounding areas.
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15 April 2016
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15 April 2016
Women resist industrial palm oil (Photo: JVE-Cameroun)
Considering that the aspiration to human dignity is a common ideal for humankind, and that the United Nations Charter asserts this aspiration in its preamble and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;
Declarations
30 March 2016
Declaration by the World Rainforest Movement (WRM), March 2016
To Berta Cáceres and the Lenca People, the struggle continues!
Bulletin articles
21 March 2016
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21 March 2016
The December 2015 Raíces newsletter focuses on the problems arising around approval and regulation of the Legal Framework on Biodiversity, and the impacts of this new law. In this recent rush to privatize nature and traditional knowledge, government and business groups have teamed up to introduce the legalization of biopiracy—under new labels.
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21 March 2016
A report by Corporate Europe Observatory reveals how the biotech industry is trying to shape rules to allow the entry of new technologies for genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The industry has revived the discourse it used 20 years ago to pave the way for new genetic engineering techniques, and it has launched a European-level lobby with the goal of getting as many techniques as possible excluded from European Union regulation.
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9 March 2016
Dear sisters, friends, activists and fellow fighters,
In recent days, the world has been getting ready to celebrate the 8thof March, International Women’s Day, a date that is commemorated all over the world by unions, organisations, women’s groups, and more, many of whom are unaware of the day’s socialist origins that pay tribute to the women who died trapped in a factory fire where they were working in the United States.
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16 February 2016
On February 9th and 11th, 2016, over 200 residents of Nueva Concepción, Escuintla, Guatemala, held an action that was historic for their municipality and for many peoples; they freed the Madre Vieja River from several dams that were diverting its water toward oil palm and sugar cane plantations.
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10 February 2016
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 investments of Socfin Agricultural Company Sierra Leone Ltd (SAC)[1], a subsidiary of Socfin, linked to Bolloré.
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5 February 2016
A report by some of the Friends of the Earth groups shows how some of the fires that affected Indonesia’s forests in the last months can be traced to companies that supply or are owned by Wilmar International, a company that spurred a dramatic wave of sustainability pledges in the palm oil sector in December 2013. Despite new evidence that the company violates its own ‘no deforestation’ policies, this report sustains how major U.S.
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5 February 2016
