Public Statements

Depuis des décennies, les communautés riveraines des plantations du groupe Socfin dans le monde entier dénoncent les pratiques abusives de l'entreprise, qui vont de l'accaparement des terres à la violence sexuelle. Aujourd'hui, leurs plaintes ont été validées par une source surprenante : les propres consultants rémunérés de Socfin, qui ont conclu que la plupart des plaintes sont au moins partiellement fondées et que la grande majorité des abus sont de la responsabilité de l'entreprise., Footnotes View allCloseLes rapports de la Fondation Earthworm sont dispersés sur son site web

For decades, communities neighbouring the Socfin group's plantations worldwide have railed against the company's abusive practices, which range from land grabs to sexual violence. Now their complaints have been vindicated by a surprising source: Socfin's own paid consultants, who have concluded that most of the complaints are at least partially founded, and that the vast majority of the abuses are the responsibility of the corporation., Footnotes View allCloseThe Earthworm Foundation reports are scattered around its website:

As the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk prepares to visit Sri Lanka from June 23-26, 2025, the Oakland Institute calls on the United Nations to address Sri Lanka government’s past and ongoing land grabs and human rights violations targeting Tamils in the country. Sixteen years since the end of the civil war, the Tamil population – marginalized and persecuted since the country’s independence in 1948 – still awaits justice.

Les rebelles du M23 soutenus par le Rwanda ont récemment pris Goma, la capitale provinciale du Nord-Kivu en République démocratique du Congo (RDC). Il s’agit de la dernière escalade en trois décennies de conflit armé dans l’est de la RDC, qui a fait plus de 6 millions de morts depuis 1996.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have recently captured Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This is the latest escalation in the three decades of armed conflict in Eastern DRC, which has caused over 6 million deaths since 1996.

We are deeply alarmed by President Trump’s recent statements that appear to endorse and plan for forced Palestinian displacement leading to the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip.

Nous écrivons ce jour pour exprimer notre profonde inquiétude concernant le décret provincial publié le 13 novembre 2024, par les autorités provinciales du Sud-Kivu. Ce décret, tout en s'attaquant à d'importantes menaces environnementales, risque d’avoir aussi pour conséquence une résurgence des violences à l'encontre des peuples autochtones Batwa dans et autour du parc national du Kahuzi-Biega (PNKB), en République démocratique du Congo.

We write to express our concern regarding the Provincial Decree issued on November 13th, 2024, by the Government of South Kivu. This decree, while addressing important environmental threats, risks facilitating a resurgence of violence towards the Batwa Indigenous Peoples in and around the Kahuzi-Biega National Park (PNKB), in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We fear that this order’s indiscriminate prohibition of all individuals including the Batwa Indigenous Peoples, will be used to legitimate violence against their communities in and around the PNKB.

As civil society organizations that have supported communities around the world to use dispute resolution processes at Independent Accountability Mechanisms (IAMs), we welcome the External Review Team’s recommendations for strengthening the World Bank’s Accountability Mechanism - the Inspection Panel and the Dispute Resolution Service (DRS). This statement focuses primarily on the implementation of dispute resolution since the reforms to accountability at the World Bank added the DRS.

In recent weeks, the Tanzanian government has undertaken a concerted media campaign to discredit the Oakland Institute’s findings about egregious human rights abuses and forced displacement, carried out to expand Ruaha National Park (RUNAPA) as a “tourism asset.” Not surprisingly, the Tanzanian Association of Tourism Operators (TATO), whose lifeline is safari tourism and hunting, joined the chorus of blatantly false claims in defense of the government’s actions.