Public Statements

Le jour de l’ouverture de la Conférence sur la terre 2024 de la Banque mondiale, des organisations de productrices et producteurs alimentaires à petite échelle, de Peuples autochtones, de travailleurs et travailleuses, de communautés de base et de la société civile dénoncent la Banque mondiale comme un acteur majeur de l’accaparement des terres et de la destruction des écosystèmes. Elles exigent des mesures efficaces pour réaliser le droit à la terre et aux territoires, y compris une réforme agraire.

Destinataires : M. Niels Annen, BMZ State Secretary, Germany Mme. Bruins Slot, Ministre des affaires étrangères, Pays-Bas Mme. Caroline Gennez, Ministre de la coopération au développement, Belgique Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, Ministre de l'état, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Royaume-Uni Copie à : M. Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, Président de la République démocratique du Congo Mme. Christiane Rudolph, Chief Sustainability Officer, DEG M. Michael Jongeneel, Chief Executive Officer, FMO M. Joris Totté, Chief Executive Officer, BIO M.

We, the undersigned non-governmental organisations, are writing to bring to your attention critical concerns with the ongoing mediation process of the Independent Complaints Mechanism (ICM) of the German and Dutch development banks (DEG and FMO) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), pertaining specifically to the operations of the company Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC) and its impact on local communities. We request that you take urgent actions to pause the mediation process while these concerns are being addressed.

Five years have passed since nine communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo filed a complaint with the International Complaint Mechanism.

We are horrified by the violence that has been perpetrated against civilians in Gaza, Israel, and the occupied West Bank.

I am writing to share urgent information about the human rights crisis faced by the Maasai communities in Loliondo and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA)

As you plan your visit to Tanzania later this month, we would like to share with you two major issues that are causing irreparable harm to our community.

Nine communities from the Democratic Republic of the Congo filed a complaint with the Independent Complaints Mechanism of three European development banks financing PHC.

Swift international action is needed to pressure the Sri Lankan government to take steps towards demilitarization and the return of stolen land in the North and East of the country

This year's general assembly of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which begins on 1 December 2022 in Malaysia, marks the alliance’s 19th anniversary. For nearly two decades now, the RSPO has failed in its mission to make the industrial palm oil sector “sustainable”. Instead, it has been used by the palm oil industry to greenwash environmental destruction, labour and human rights abuses and land grabbing.