Press release. March 7, 2019.
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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)
International Press release. March 7, 2018.
Women demand that oil palm companies stop violence and give back community land
Support African women! Sign the petition included on this article by filling the form enclosed below. Organized women who live around industrial oil palm plantations denounce different forms of violence.
Attempt at Sabotage in New York: the European Union aims to Eliminate the Financing of the United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group Entrusted with Drafting a Legally Binding Treaty on TNCs and Human Rights
Tuesday 19th December 2017
A research about Berta Cáceres case, done by International Advisory Group of Experts (GAIPE) has been launched on October 31st in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Berta was Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones Populares e Indígenas de Honduras (COPINH) coordinator. She was killed on March 2nd 2016 due to her and COPINH’s struggle in defense of water and life and against the Agua Zarca hydroelectric project. The research "Dam Violence.
Available only in English and Spanish
Global Campaign mobilized towards a UN Binding Treaty for Transnational Corporations on Human Rights
The need to confront the Architecture of Impunity
Social organisations and movements, communities affected by the operations of transnational corporations and others fighting for social and environmental justice around the world, will march to Geneva in October 2017 (23rd to 26th).
Hereby we share a number of activities, new materials and media coverages from different countries to commemorate the International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations 2017.
- Women organizations from several countries from West and Central Africa launched the petition: “Stop all forms of abuse against women in large-scale monoculture tree plantations”.
Indigenous Peoples from Acre in Brazil declare their rejection of REDD policies and their support for the work carried out by the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI). Feijó, State of Acre, Brazil, September 28th, 2017.
LETTER OF REJECTION AND REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATION
Only available in Portuguese