Indonesia: The World Bank's Failed East Asian Miracle
Indonesia: The World Bank's Failed East Asian Miracle details how Bank-backed policy reforms have led to the displacement, criminalization, and even murder of smallholder farmers and indigenous defenders to make way for mega-agricultural projects. While Indonesia's rapidly expanding palm oil sector has been heralded as a boon for the economy, its price tag includes massive deforestation, widespread loss of indigenous land, rapidly increasing...
The Great Ventriloquist Act: The World Bank's Bad Business in India
The Great Ventriloquist Act: The World Bank's Bad Business in India exposes how India's one-track focus on improving its DBR has allowed massive environmental, labor, and human rights abuses to take place. Most appalling is the case of Vedanta Resources Plc, a company that benefitted from the removal of environmental safeguards and was able to operate a damaging copper smelter within the city limits of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu--a mere 8.4 miles...
The Great Timber Heist - Continued: Tax Evasion and Illegal Logging in Papua New Guinea
The Great Timber Heist-Continued: Tax Evasion and Illegal Logging in Papua New Guinea makes public new evidence of financial misreporting and tax evasion in the logging industry in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Following the Oakland Institute's 2016 report , which alleged that financial misreporting by foreign firms resulted in nonpayment of hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes, the new report reveals drastic worsening of this pattern in recent...
Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever
Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever is based on field research, never publicly-seen-before documents, and an in-depth investigation into Tanzania's land laws. This report is the first to reveal the complicity between Tanzanian government officials and foreign companies as they use conservation laws to dispossess the Maasai, driving them into smaller and smaller areas and creating a stifling map of confinement. The...
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Kuipoteza Serengeti, Ardhi Ya Wamasai Iliyopaswa Kudumu Milele
Carbon Colonialism: Failure of Green Resources' Carbon Offset Project in Uganda
Carbon Colonialism: Failure of Green Resources' Carbon Offset Project in Uganda exposes the continued and relentless attacks of Green Resources on the rights of local people and the environment in Kachung, Uganda. Following the Institute's exposé in 2014 , revealing the mistreatment and violence perpetrated by the company in Uganda, Green Resources' only carbon credit buyer, the Swedish Energy Agency, suspended funding...
Remembrance and Resilience: The Ongoing Plight of Sri Lanka's Survivors
May 18th is the Mullivaikkal Day for Tamils in Sri Lanka – a day of mourning and remembrance for the more than 40,000 civilians brutally killed in the final stages of the country's civil war nine years ago.
Two Blows in a Row: The New Alliance for Food Security Loses Ground
Thursday, April 12, 2018 Flora Sonkin
Buzzwords like 'business-enabling environment,' which underlie NAFSN discourse and practice, merely support the expansion of large-scale and export-oriented agribusinesses, at the cost of local farmers and biodiversity.
'Rights, Not Favors': Citizenship Lessons from India's Forests
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 Janhavi Mittal
Cries of Maharbani Nakko, hakk havet (keep your favors, we want our rights) rend the early-morning sky as 40,000 farmers and forest dwellers from Maharashtra arrived in Mumbai a little before midnight on March 11, 2018. Commencing from Nashik, and covering 180 kilometers in less than six days, the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) led rally offered not only spectacular images of blistered, bloodied feet but a new unrelenting solidarity between the...
Development Gone Wrong
Saturday, March 31, 2018 Anuradha Mittal
"I am not afraid of being arrested. I am afraid of being tortured." These words from Pastor Omot Agwa , an Anuak land rights defender, are a poignant reminder of "development" gone wrong in Ethiopia. The agricultural sector, seen as the driver for development by the Ethiopian government, has been used to lure foreign investments for agribusiness ventures — large industrial plantations as those set up by Saudi Star...
The Release of Ethiopian Political Prisoners: Stifled Voices amidst False Promises
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 Elizabeth Fraser, Frederic Mousseau
For years, the Ethiopian government has denied that there are political prisoners in the country. This is despite its consistent use of the draconian Anti-Terrorism Proclamation to stifle dissent and detain thousands of politicians, journalists, religious and indigenous leaders, and students.
Worldwide Condemnation Over Violence against the Maasai by Tanzania Security Forces
Des communautés locales du Sénégal exigent la restitution de leurs terres acquises par une société américaine
Local Communities in Senegal Demand the Return of their Land Acquired by US Firm
URGENT ALERT – Heavy Police Presence in Loliondo as Threats of Mass Evictions of the Maasai Intensify
The Oakland Institute's Response to Sham "Due Diligence Report" Commissioned by The Nature Conservancy and Other Donors into Northern Rangelands Trust in Kenya
'Shocking Blow to Indigenous Land Rights' as Court Dismisses Maasai Herder Claim
Maasai Villages Lose Important Court Case as Wildlife Game Reserve Trudges On
Brazil's Election Will Be Decisive for Indigenous People, the Environment, and the Climate Crisis
The push to protect Africa's land displaces its greatest guardians: Indigenous people
Political Economy of the Russia Ukraine Conflict