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Tanzania wants to evict Maasai for wildlife – but they’re fighting back

Al Jazeera

August 5, 2024

Community members are on a campaign to get international donors to defund their government and stop rights violations.

Facing pressure from rights groups, World Bank suspends funding for Tanzania tourism project

AP News

April 23, 2024

The World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania that caused the suffering of tens of thousands of villagers, according to a U.S.-based rights group that has long urged the global lender to take such action.

Harmful mining continues in Nicaragua despite U.S. sanctions, new investigation shows

Mongabay

February 5, 2024

U.S. sanctions imposed in 2022 against Nicaragua’s mining industry were supposed to help combat a bloody wave of human rights abuses against local communities. But several years later, some aspects of the sanctions still aren’t being enforced, allowing mining companies to continue operations and even expand into new parts of the country.

Carbon Offsets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

HBO

August 21, 2022

John Oliver explains what carbon offsets are, what they claim to do, how they might be making climate change even worse, and, of course, how Oscar Isaac is getting hotter.

Ahead of COP16, groups warn of rights abuses linked to ‘30×30’ goal

Mongabay Environmental News

Two years since global policymakers agreed on the concept of protecting 30% of the world’s land and waters by 2030, there’s still little clarity on how achieving this goal will impact Indigenous communities who safeguard some of the most biodiverse areas on Earth. In October this year, government representatives are set to meet at the […]
Grand entretien : Frédéric Mousseau, Policy Director at the Oakland Institute : Protection des populations autochtones en RDC : le double langage américain

Afrimag

Protection des populations autochtones en RDC
"Making a mockery": Ending Fortress Conservation in DRC and beyond

African Arguments

The court ruling on the rights of the expelled Batwa people in the DRC could pave the way for the conservation paradigm shift we need.
Trincomalee under siege - New report finds rapidly escalating Buddhisation of homeland

Tamil Guardian

A new report by the Oakland Institute looking at Trincomalee, a city once dubbed the capital of Tamil Eelam, has found that over the last 12 months, there has been rapidly escalating colonization of the Tamil homeland.
Trincomalee under siege - New report finds rapidly escalating

Tamil Guardian

A new report by the Oakland Institute looking at Trincomalee, a city once dubbed the capital of Tamil Eelam, has found that over the last 12 months, there has been rapidly escalating colonization of the Tamil homeland.
குச்சவெளி பிரதேசத்தில் மட்டும் 26 விகாரைகள்; 50% க்கும் அதிகமான காணி அபகரிப்பு : ஓக்லாண்ட் நிலைய அறிக்கை

Samakalam

திருகோணமலை மாவட்டத்தில் அரசு மற்றும் அதன் திணைக்களங்கள் மிக மோசமான நில அபகரிப்பில் கடந்த சில வருடங்களில் ஈடுபட்டுள்ளதாக நில ஆக்கிரமிப்பு தொடர்பில் பல்வேறு நாடுகளிலும் ஆய்வு நடத்திவரும் கலிஃபோர்னியாவை அடிப்படையாக கொண்ட ஓக்லாண்ட் நிலையம் அதிர்ச்சியளிக்கும் ஆய்வு அறிக்கை ஒன்றை வெளியிட்டுள்ளது.