Tanzania wants to evict Maasai for wildlife – but they’re fighting back
Community members are on a campaign to get international donors to defund their government and stop rights violations.
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Facing pressure from rights groups, World Bank suspends funding for Tanzania tourism project
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
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)
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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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Afrimag
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Geographical
Rural communities face evictions and abuse in the name of conservation, but a Tanzanian local group is helping them to secure ancestral lands.
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Center for Media and Democracy (CMD)
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.
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MongabayCommunities living close to oil palm plantations run by PHC in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo are laying claim to just over 58,000 hectares (143,000 acres) of land, and are demanding access to the company’s land titles to determine the boundaries of its concessions.
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teleSUR
Según un informe de una organización de derechos humanos, el gobierno de Tanzania está reubicando por la fuerza a los residentes indígenas masai de sus
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The Chanzo
It is not the legitimacy of the Oakland Institute that needs to be questioned, but the abdication of responsibility by the Tanzanian government to ensure democratic and human rights of all its citizens.
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