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[29/11/2012] Why a Stand-Alone Indigenous Peoples Policy within the African Development Bank's Integrated Safeguards System - An Assessment by the CSO Coalition on the AfDB
Samuel Nnah Ndobe and Halleson Nzene Durrell 29 June, 2012 The African Development Bank is in the process of developing a new Integrated Safeguards ...
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[28/11/2012] Liberia: Sime Darby Agrees to Pay U.S. One Million
Following the efforts of RRI Collaborator Green Advocates, Malaysian Palm Oil firm Sime Darby has agreed to pay compensation to local communities in Liberia for bulldozing their sacred sites....
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[27/11/2012] Nigerian CSOs challenge Wilmar's palm oil expansion plans in Cross River State
27 November, 2012 Nigerian NGOs and community leaders have filed a formal complaint with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil challenging the proposals of the palm oil transnational...
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[27/11/2012] Nigerian CSOs challenge Wilmar's palm oil expansion plans in Cross River State
27 November, 2012 Nigerian NGOs and community leaders have filed a formal complaint with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil challenging the proposals of the palm oil transnational...
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[26/11/2012] New publication: Securing rights through commodity roundtables? A comparative review
Sophie Chao, Marcus Colchester and Norman Jiwan 26 November, 2012 This paper is a comparative review of rights across a number of existing voluntary...
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[23/11/2012] REDD+ and Indigenous Peoples: Analysis of the upcoming UNFCCC negotiations in Doha, and identification of possible policy options
Francesco Martone, Forest Peoples Programme 23 November, 2012 The purpose of this background note is to identify some key issues and opportunities in the...
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[22/11/2012] A study on the right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent in PT REA Kaltim Plantations, East Kalimantan
Sophie Chao, Emil Kleden, Agustinus Karlo Lumban Raja, Isal Wardhana and Intan Cinditiara 22 November, 2012 Pre-Publication Text for Public Release...
Events
[21/11/2012] International Conference on Forest Tenure Reform
Hosted by the State Forest Administration, China Forest Tenure Project (supported by UN-FAO and EU), Rights and Resources Initiative and the Peking University. Background It is now widely...
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[21/11/2012] Oakland Institute: Action Alert: Stop Palm Oil Plantations from Destroying Africa's Ancient Rainforests and Local Livelihoods in Cameroon
As seen on www.oaklandinstitute.org Dear friends, The Oakland Institute is very relieved after the release on Friday, November 16, 2012, of 4 members of SEFE, one of our NGO partners in...
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[21/11/2012] Survival International Press Release: Brazilian Indians' water 'poisoned' in bitter land dispute
21 November 2012 Guarani Indians of Ypo'icommunity in Brazil.© MPF A community of Brazilian Indians say their main source of water has been poisoned by one of the...
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[21/11/2012] New York Times: Opinonator: What a Little Land Can Do
As seen on the New York Times By Tina Rosenberg The poorest people in the world are those who don’t have land. In India, landlessness is a better predictor of poverty than...
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[20/11/2012] President Obama calls the right to own title to land on which you live, work "the most fundamental"
President Obama in his remarks today at the University of Yangon, Myanmar, called ordinary people's right to own the title of the land they work on and live, as "the most fundamental of...
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[20/11/2012] Free, Prior and Informed Consent in the Palm Oil Sector - Sime Darby oil palm and rubber plantation in Grand Cape Mount county, Liberia
Tom Lomax and Justin Kenrick with Alfred Brownell 26 November, 2012 Pre-Publication Text for Public Release, November 2012 Sime Darby’s oil palm and...
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[20/11/2012] Conference paper: Free, Prior and Informed Consent and Oil Palm Expansion in Southeast Asia - From Principles to Practice
Sophie Marie Hélène Chao, Forest Peoples Programme 20 November, 2012 Click here to read this conference paper, which was produced for the Medan...
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[19/11/2012] Joint Statement of the participants of the ‘South East Asia Consultation on Land Grabbing and Palm Oil Plantations: CSO and Academic Responses’
19 November, 2012 This Joint Statement is the outcome of a conference held in Medan on 5 - 10 November 2012, organised by Darma Agung University and grassroots organisation Lentera...
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[19/11/2012] Joint Statement of the participants of the ‘South East Asia Consultation on Land Grabbing and Palm Oil Plantations: CSO and Academic Responses’
19 November, 2012 This Joint Statement is the outcome of a conference held in Medan on 5 - 10 November 2012, organised by Darma Agung University and grassroots organisation Lentera...
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[16/11/2012] CED Press Release: Director of an NGO opposed to the HERAKLES Farms project in Cameroon arrested with 3 of his colleagues
RRI Partner Centre for Environment and Development (CED) has reported that Nasako Besingi, the director of the NGO Struggle to Economize the Future (SEFE) based in Mundemba (Southwest Cameroon), was...
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[16/11/2012] CED: Afrique Centrale - Un document cadre pour les réformes foncières (in French)
Comme on le voit sur CED Trois Organisations ont produit un document de propositions pour un traitement juridique plus adéquat des cessions de terres à grande é...
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[16/11/2012] New mechanisms to protect defenders of land rights
Every year, human rights defenders working on land issues throughout the developing world are threatened, harassed and even killed because of their peaceful actions for more just, inclusive and...
Documents
[16/11/2012] The Financial Risks of Insecure Land Tenure:
- The Munden ProjectThis paper, prepared for RRI by The Munden Project, investigates the real financial consequences of investing in land with disputed tenure rights. It demonstrates that companies...
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