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UN human rights mechanisms urge Guatemala to end forced evictions, protect land rights defenders - ISHR
From 14 to 25 July, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, conducted an official visit to Guatemala - only theUlises Quero (ISHR)
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Cuts to a Little-Known U.S. Agency Undermine the Global Fight Against Forced Labor
For several decades, the United States has strengthened its efforts to stringently enforce anti-trafficking statutes at home with practical partnerships to prevent forced labor abroad.foleyhoag.com
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An Opportunity to Address Mining Abuses Globally
When 29-year-old Norbert Amoya went to fetch water from a river in northern Zambia earlier this year, he found large numbers of dead fish and the water had a strange smell. The cause was a major mining disaster.Human Rights Watch
Culture and spirit belong at the center of wildlife conservation (commentary)
Conservation is often framed as a scientific or technical challenge — a matter of policies, protected areas and enforcement. But that lens has led conservation astray. Around the world, biodiversity continues to decline.Erik Hoffner (Mongabay)
Unmasking Socfin’s Destructive Palm Oil Empire in Africa
An investigation reveals Socfin’s exploitation of rubber and palm oil in West Africa, leading to deforestation, landgrabbing, and shocking human rights abuses.Palm Oil Detectives
Global Consumer Brands Continue to Fall Short on Deforestation and Human Rights - The Understory - Rainforest Action Network
Our 2025 Keep Forests Standing Scorecard shows that corporate action on deforestation and human rights remains slow.Rainforest Action Network
Papua’s ‘Empty Lands’: A Dangerous Myth Displacing Indigenous Peoples
Challenge a dangerous colonial myth that West Papua is an ’empty land’. This only serves the colonial domination of Indonesia not ancient tribes living there!Palm Oil Detectives
Palm Oil Practices Resemble Colonial Exploitation
Indonesian palm oil workers expose industry practices that mirror colonial exploitation: land grabbing, bad conditions, ecocide. Systemic change is needed!Palm Oil Detectives
Only 3% of international climate aid going to transitioning communities, says NGO report
New report on funding to slash carbon emissions finds startlingly low engagement with the people affectedDharna Noor (The Guardian)
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Palm Oil Threatens Ancient Noken Weaving in West Papua
Colonial palm oil and sugarcane causing the loss of West Papuans’ cultural identity. Land grabs force communities from forests, threatening Noken weavingPalm Oil Detectives
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How ‘conservation’ became a cover for land grabbing from Cebu’s Cantipla farmers
By Salome Lapiten The land knows no master. Yet it recognizes a farmer’s calloused hands, worn with the same cracks that run through the barren land. ItAninaw Productions (Altermidya - People's Alternative Media Network)
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Karen community fighting corn and coal for clean air in northern Thailand
MAE CHAM/OMKOI, Thailand — Rain lashed down in the northern Thai village of Nong Krating as Sawattiphon Wongkasettakon described the worsening air pollution that sweeps in through the mountains here each year.Philip Jacobson (Mongabay)
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Violence for Palm Oil Against Peasant Communities in Honduras Meets Resistance
In the Aguán Valley of northern Honduras, peasant communities reclaiming ancestral lands face increasing violence and intimidation from armed groups linked to organised crime. The Dinant Corporatio…Palm Oil Detectives
Papua’s ‘Empty Lands’: A Dangerous Myth Displacing Indigenous Peoples
Challenge a dangerous colonial myth that West Papua is an ’empty land’. This only serves the colonial domination of Indonesia not ancient tribes living there!Palm Oil Detectives
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Int’l mission urges cancellation of HAPI Inc’s IFMA, links palm oil expansion to climate injustice and militarization in Candoni, Negros
The Negros Island contingent of the International Learning and Solidarity Mission (ILSM) has urged the government to revoke the Integrated ForestPaghimutad (Altermidya - People's Alternative Media Network)
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In the Shadow of COP30, Brazil is Stripping Rainforest of Protections
While the city of Belém steps up to host the COP30 global climate summit in November, in another corner of Pará state, a federal government agency is planning to hand over a large area of the Amazon rainforest to illegal cattle ranches.Human Rights Watch
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What is the government afraid of? - Amazon Frontlines
What is the government afraid of? Ecuador’s government is freezing the bank accounts of Indigenous...Amazon Frontlines
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UN Special Rapporteur documents complaints and regional threats against environmental defenders under the Aarhus convention - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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L’Oreal
‘Our goal is by 2020 to have none of our products linked to deforestation.’ L’Oreal’s website statement on palm oil This target has been and gone. Still, enormous environmen…Palm Oil Detectives
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Brazil: Illegal Ranches Devastate Rainforest, Livelihoods
Illegal cattle ranching has devastated the territories of small farmers and Indigenous peoples in Pará, the state that will hold the COP30 climate summit this year.Human Rights Watch
Nestlé
Nestlé is destroying rainforests, releasing mega-tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, and killing hundreds of endangered species. Once these animals are gone – they are gone for good. See Ne…Palm Oil Detectives
Mondelēz
Despite the virtue-signalling of the palm oil certification body the RSPO, Mondelez’s so-called “sustainable” palm oil is linked to 37.000ha of palm oil deforestation since 2016 (…Palm Oil Detectives
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Int’l mission urges cancellation of HAPI Inc’s IFMA, links palm oil expansion to climate injustice and militarization in Candoni, Negros
The Negros Island contingent of the International Learning and Solidarity Mission (ILSM) has urged the government to revoke the Integrated ForestPaghimutad (Altermidya - People's Alternative Media Network)
“Sustainable” Palm Oil No Different in Land Conflicts
Research reveals no significant difference between RSPO-certified “sustainable” palm oil and non-certified palm in Indonesian land conflicts. Boycott palm oil!Palm Oil Detectives
Brazil: Illegal Ranches Devastate Rainforest, Livelihoods
Illegal cattle ranching has devastated the territories of small farmers and Indigenous peoples in Pará, the state that will hold the COP30 climate summit this year.Human Rights Watch
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The alleged British links to mass deforestation and displacement in a conflict few have even heard of
New report alleges British links to human rights and environmental crises in West Papua, Indonesia.The Conversation
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil must halt Liberian palm oil company’s abuses (commentary)
In the forests of southeastern Liberia, fear is resounding over what the future may hold. For more than a decade, communities in Sinoe county have struggled against palm oil company Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), which has razed more than 1,000 hecta…Erik Hoffner (Conservation news)
Indonesian island’s traditional residents face relocation for ‘sustainable’ project | Dialogue Earth
With government-mandated relocation looming, a Riau Islands community has been fighting to prevent their ancestral villages and coast from being harmedMohammad Yunus (对话地球)