Press Releases

At Least 11 Miskitu and Mayangna Community Members Killed in Massacre by Settlers ---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- September 1, 2021, 8:00 AM PT Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal, [email protected] +1 510-469-5228 Last week, Nicaraguan settlers attacked and killed at least 11 Indigenous Miskitu and Mayangna people living in the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve on the country’s Caribbean coast.

Une incroyable bataille juridique a éclaté pour déterminer la propriété de PHC, une entreprise de palmiers à huile, qui contrôle plus de 100 000 hectares de terres en RDC.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- June 22, 2021, 6:00 AM PT Media Contact:Frederic Mousseau, [email protected]; +1 510-512-5458 Jean-François Mombia Atuku, [email protected] +243-847-122-924 Devlin Kuyek, [email protected] +1-514-571-7702 A legal battle has erupted over the ownership of the Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC), an oil palm firm, which controls over 100,000 hectares of land in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Tanzanian Government Advances Resettlement Plan for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area ---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- June 10, 2021, 3:00 AM PT Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal, [email protected]; +1 510-469-5228 The Tanzanian government’s multiple land use management (MLUM) and resettlement plan will remove over 80,000 residents from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), including the vast majority of the Indigenous Maasai pastoralists — stewards of the land for generations.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- May 24, 2021 8:00 AM PT Media Contact:Frédéric Mousseau, [email protected]; +1 510-512-5458 The Oakland Institute, along with 39 organizations from 16 countries, is calling on United Nations (UN) entities, agencies, and programs to immediately cease all business relationships with the France-based Bolloré Group and its different subsidiaries. The Bolloré Group is a major supplier to the United Nations. The UN pays Bolloré over US$50 million every year for logistics and other services.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- May 13, 2021 8:00 AM PT Media Contact:Frédéric Mousseau, [email protected]; +1 510-512-5458 On May 10, 2021, Papua New Guinea’s Internal Revenue Commission (IRC) announced decisive action against logging companies. 20 companies are being audited as the IRC plans to scale up compliance activities — including criminal prosecutions. This move follows a 2019 increase on log export taxes. Over the last decade, Papua New Guinea has become the largest exporter of tropical timber.

Contact média :Frederic Mousseau, [email protected]; +1 510-530-5126 Déplacées par les autorités coloniales belges en 1911 pour établir des plantations de palmiers à huile, les communautés de Lokutu, Yaligimba et Boteka en RDC continuent de souffrir de la faim et de la pauvreté, ainsi que d’atteintes graves aux droits humains et à l'environnement.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- March 16, 2021 Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal, [email protected]; +1 510-530-5126 Forcibly displaced by Belgian colonial authorities in 1911 to establish oil palm plantations, the Lokutu, Yaligimba, and Boteka communities in the DRC remain afflicted with widespread hunger and poverty, amidst rampant human rights and environmental abuses on the plantations. Community efforts to negotiate the return of their land have been met with violent repression by plantation security forces, unlawful detentions, beatings, torture, and even murder.

On March 18, 2021, the IACHR will hold a public hearing on the impacts of the colonization of Indigenous lands on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.

Contacto de prensa: Sofía Espinal Oficial de comunicación, Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL) Correo: [email protected] Teléfono: +506 8333 3275 El 18 de marzo de 2021, la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) celebrará una audiencia pública sobre los impactos de la colonización de las tierras indígenas en la costa caribe de Nicaragua, en el marco de su 179º período de sesiones.