Public Statements

We are writing to urge TPG Rise Climate to withdraw its investments from Summit Carbon Solutions’ carbon capture and storage (CCS) project

We are writing to urge Tiger Infrastructure Partners to withdraw its investments from Summit Carbon Solutions' carbon capture and storage (CCS) project

We call for a halt to IFC’s financing of industrial agriculture as it undermines the diversified, agroecological food systems that support food sovereignty

Given the prominent financial support provided by the IMF, we urge you to take the necessary steps to stop a human rights and an environmental catastrophe in Loliondo and the NCA.

We are writing in light of the latest violence unleashed on the Maasai communities living in the Loliondo division of Ngorongoro district by the Tanzanian security forces

If UNESCO WHC willingly operates a World Heritage Site in a country that does not respect rights of Indigenous, they are complicit in any violation of rights that occur.

The data and policy assumptions in FAO’s June 2021 publication Which farms feed the world and has farmland become more concentrated? requires clarification

Before publication of the report Stealth Game, the Oakland Institute shared the major findings of its research with NRT, to provide it an opportunity to respond. What followed was a correspondence in which NRT denies our findings and deflects blame. Here we address NRT’s contention points with the report. NRT asserts that the findings of Stealth Game are “unfounded and long discredited allegations” that are the result of not “having seen firsthand the situation on the ground.” NRT maintains visiting the communities in person would dispel these allegations.

Over 450 Public Development Banks (PDBs) from around the world are gathering in Rome from 19 to 20 October 2021 for a second international summit, dubbed Finance in Common. During the first summit in Paris in 2020, over 80 civil-society organizations published a joint statement demanding that the PDBs stop funding agribusiness companies and projects that take land and natural resources away from local communities. This year, however, PDBs have made agriculture and agribusiness the priority of their second summit.

Honorable Michele Bachelet UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Geneva Re: Oakland Institute’s response to the August 27, 2021 statement from the Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the progress made on peace and reconciliation Honorable Michele Bachelet, On August 27, 2021, the Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a statement on the progress made by the government of Sri Lanka on peace and reconciliation in advance of the forthcoming UN Human Rights Council session.