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Biblioteca Land rights and investments: why business standards are not enough

Land rights and investments: why business standards are not enough

Land rights and investments: why business standards are not enough

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Date of publication
Febrero 2020
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ISBN / Resource ID
MOKORO-54

Notes that a record 212 land and environmental defenders were reported killed in 2019 but believes that the real number was certainly higher. Mining;logging and agribusiness were the main drivers of this. States that ‘verifying cases from Africa continues to be difficult. Limited monitoring of the issue by civil society;media repression and localised conflict mean attacks are probably underreported in some regions.Seven were reported killed in DR Congo;Burkina Faso;Uganda;Ghana and Kenya. Makes recommendations to governments;companies and investors.

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