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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.

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How German government funds are used to dispossess Tanzania’s Maasai in Serengeti land grab

Mongabay Environmental News

A Tanzanian journalist contributed to this report, but has requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the story. OLOLOSOKWAN, Tanzania — Just days after rangers from Serengeti National Park confiscated Lankenua Sainguran’s cattle and pushed her family into poverty, the German ambassador to Tanzania ceremonially handed over the keys to...
Nicaragua’s Gold Rush: A New Frontier of Corporate Extraction

El Faro

A modern-day gold rush is poisoning ecosystems and terrorizing Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Nicaragua, as corporations and settlers invade autonomous territories and nature reserves, stealing land and extracting profits in a lucrative business environment enforced through state and paramilitary violence.
IMF support for poor countries comes at cost of faster deforestation

Sustainable Views

Research shows that between 2000 and 2020, IMF programmes were associated with an increase in annual tree cover loss of 9.2% At a glanceA group of experts, the Task Force on Climate, Development and the IMF, has shown that spending by governments of poor countries to protect forests can easily be cut when financial distress creates a need for...
‘Historic’ decision for the Batwa & DRC gorilla park faces hurdles — and hope

Mongabay

In a historic 2022 ruling, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights found that the forced eviction of the Indigenous Batwa community from the Kahuzi-Biega National Park was a violation of their rights. With this communication, made public in June 2024, came a list of 19 recommendations for the DRC government to implement to…
What does Sri Lankan President's promise to return state-occupied land mean for the Tamils?

The New Indian Express

As Sri Lankans headed to the polls on Thursday to make a crucial decision about cementing the 'new era of politics' ushered in by President Anura Kumara Dissana
Tanzania: i maasai di Loliondo hanno perso la causa per la loro terra

Nigrizia

Secondo la Corte suprema non potranno tornare nel loro territorio di origine, destinato alla riserva di caccia di Pooleti