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Community members are on a campaign to get international donors to defund their government and stop rights violations.
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.
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.
Maasai pastoralists in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area are engaging in peaceful protest against the Tanzanian government’s latest ruthless attempt to forcibly evict them from their ancestral lands.
RDC : le pillage des peuples autochtones
Western nations are propping up a perfect storm of human rights violations in the DRC through fortress conservation and military aid.
An investment arm of the largest private company in the U.S. — Koch, Inc. — is investing in an agricultural business venture that will provide corporations with carbon offsets while pulling local natural resources from almost 7.2 million acres of land in three West African countries.
Rural communities face evictions and abuse in the name of conservation, but a Tanzanian local group is helping them to secure ancestral lands.