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Record-breaking temperatures, deadly floods, worsening drought and intensifying hurricanes are placing millions of people across Latin America and the Caribbean at growing risk of hunger, displacement and water shortages, according to a new report fr…UN News
A 5-month investigation by Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Kevin Woke of Sahara Reporters reveals how RSPO member SIAT Nigeria Limited is involved in human rights abuses and land-grabbing on host communities' lands.Palm Oil Detectives
Oil has harmed the nature and people of the Niger Delta; human rights may save it news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026…
#NigerDelta #nature #environment #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #oil #HumanRights
On this week’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast, I speak with travel writer Noo Saro-Wiwa. She has documented the violence and natural destruction that the presence of oil companies have brought to the people of the Niger Delta in her latest book, Th…mikedigirolamo (Mongabay Environmental News)
JAKARTA — More than a decade after the palm oil industry embraced a pledge to not deforest, clear tropical peatlands, or use exploitative practices, policies to that end now cover most of the global palm oil trade, as major traders, refiners and cons…Alexandra Popescu (Mongabay Environmental News)
Brands and businesses may be tempted to exploit "green" certifications to garner a larger market share at the expense of integrity.Palm Oil Detectives
The Indonesian political system has enabled deforestation through weak oversight, opaque licensing, and regulations designed to favor extractive industries.Brice Böhmer (The Diplomat)
Commodifying forests as merely an investment for 'carbon credits' has many dangerous loopholes that human rights to indigenous peoples, take action!Palm Oil Detectives
A catastrophic storm in #Uganda’s Kalangala district left nearly 1,000 households homeless. The real culprit? Rampant #deforestation for #palmoil.Palm Oil Detectives
Mondelēz International who make Oreos keep sourcing palm oil from suppliers linked to violence and deforestation. Their RSPO certification is pure greenwash!Palm Oil Detectives
There are renewed calls for Australia to sign a treaty ensuring nuclear weapons can't ever be facilitated, stored or manufactured in Australia.Kyle Evans (ABC News)
Nesrine Malik
'As fading Palestinian prisoners in dungeons appear before the eyes of the world, their deaths foretold, I think back to Abu Ghraib, and how much those pictures moved and scandalised and came to define an entire era of unbridled power, racism and cruelty. For that to happen, there needed to be a media and political class that pushed for investigation and accountability'
#gaza #palestine #israel #middleEast #humanRights
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The suffering of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is no isolated case. The abuse of Palestinian detainees is happening in plain sight, yet nothing changes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine MalikNesrine Malik (the Guardian)
At least three expected natural phenomena — the El Niño, the start of the southwest monsoon season and a positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) — are expected to bring hot and dry weather to Malaysia from June to October, potentially resulting in more he…The Edge Malaysia
Environmental activists lock themselves to pesticide barrels in protest outside Syngenta headquartersGuardian staff reporter (the Guardian)
New data reveals surge in human rights abuses linked to transition minerals mining news.mongabay.com/short-articl…
#HumanRights #environment #mining
New data released by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) finds that, worldwide, South America has the most abuse allegations associated with large-scale mining for transition minerals over the past 15 years.bobbybascomb (Mongabay Environmental News)
'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,Palm Oil Detectives
Commodifying forests as merely an investment for 'carbon credits' has many dangerous loopholes that human rights to indigenous peoples, take action!Palm Oil Detectives
Australia's coal and gas exports violate our human rights, group says in new UN case bbc.com/news/articles/cn8q5nx6…
#Australia #environment #HumanRights #energy #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #coal #gas
The group says that it is unlawful for Australia to continue approving fossil fuel exports without protecting its citizens.Lana Lam (BBC News)
Mondelez destroys rainforests, sending animals extinct and release mega-tonnes of carbon into air for so-called "sustainable" palm oil. Boycott them!Palm Oil Detectives
If you care about particular issues – from climate change to weapons of war – it’s worth looking more closely at where your money is really going.The Conversation
Brands and businesses may be tempted to exploit “green” certifications to garner a larger market share at the expense of integrity.Palm Oil Detectives
Indonesian palm oil workers expose industry practices that mirror colonial exploitation: land grabbing, bad conditions, ecocide. Systemic change is needed!Palm Oil Detectives
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
A 5-month investigation by Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi and Kevin Woke of Sahara Reporters reveals how RSPO member SIAT Nigeria Limited is involved in human rights abuses and land-grabbing on host communities' lands.Palm Oil Detectives
For decades, the palm oil industry, backed by the RSPO, has misled consumers with the false promise of "sustainable" palm oil.Palm Oil Detectives
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 Environmental News)
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.Palm Oil Detectives
🛑☠️ #News: 20 #palmoil workers incl. 5 children killed in church in #Rigores #Honduras. The workers killed by gunmen were in a land dispute with #RSPO palm oil co's. The #union demands justice!✊🏽🌴 #HumanRights #BoycottPalmOil
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Learn how the Honduras church massacre exposes palm oil violence. 20 peasant workers were murdered by paramilitaries for defending their landPalm Oil Detectives
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.Palm Oil Detectives
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Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto should immediately issue a presidential decree setting up a fact-finding team independent of the military to fully investigate the acid attack against a prominent human rights activist who has criticized the mili…Human Rights Watch
71 rights groups warn that certification schemes like RSPO and FSC fail to stop deforestation and abuses. Learn why they are called tools of greenwashing.Palm Oil Detectives
(Corrects paragraph 10 to say a dead chicken was found outside a Greenpeace campaigner's house, not Greenpeace country director's) JAKARTA, Jan 2 (Reuters) - A Molotov cocktail was thrown at the home of an Indonesian government critic, while others h…Thomson Reuters (1330 & 101.5 WHBL)
