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Pension and Endowment Funds Linked to Conflict-Plagued Oil Palm in DRC

Mongabay
March 22, 2021
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A new report from the Oakland Institute, a policy think tank, reveals that several well-known pension funds, trusts and endowments are invested in a group of oil palm plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo accused of environmental and human rights abuses.

In Nicaragua, Supplying Beef to the U.S. Comes at a High Human Cost

PBS NewsHour
October 20, 2020
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“When outbreaks of COVID-19 at meat processing plants in the U.S. slowed production, American wholesalers and grocery chains turned to foreign beef suppliers. Producers in the small country of Nicaragua were happy to fulfill U.S. demand — but doing so has come at a high cost for local communities. Nate Halverson of the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal has the story.”

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    Bobby Jordan
    Senior reporter

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    Connecticut Post

    MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s Indigenous groups complained Thursday to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights about land takeovers and killings that have hit the Miskito and Mayangna communities on the country’s Caribbean coast.

    The commission, which is part of the Organization of American States, held the hearing by...

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