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An aerial shot of a palm oil plantation on Sumatra Island
Monday 12 July 2010
JAKARTA, 6 July 2010 (IRIN) - Communities throughout Indonesia are losing land to companies seeking to profit from the booming palm oil industry. > continue
Secretary of CPT’s National Coordination Office.
Violation of Rights and Violence Persist in the Countryside
Antonio Canuto
Sunday 11 July 2010
What can be concluded from this rapid journey through the last ten years is that the Brazilian State has always walked hand-in-hand with large landowners. It has always protected their interests and, at the same time, repressed workers who organize to defend their (...) > continue
Contemporary Slavery in Brazil: 1985 to 2009
Ricardo Resende Figueira
Sunday 11 July 2010
President of the Board of Directors of the Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, priest and anthropologist, professor in the School of Social Service of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and Coordinator of the Contemporary Slave Labor Research Group of the Center for Public (...) > continue
Poverty according to the World Bank
Francisco Adjacy Farias e Mônica Dias Martins
Sunday 11 July 2010
Francisco Adjacy Farias is a sociologist and member of the research group Observatório das Nacionalidades (Nationality Watch). Mônica Dias Martins is a professor at the State University of Ceará coordinator of Observatório das Nacionalidades, and editor of the journal Tensões Mundiais (World (...) > continue
Agrarian reform policy in Brazil
Ariovaldo Umbelino de Oliveira
Sunday 11 July 2010
Ariovaldo Umbelino de Oliveira is Tenured Professor of Agrarian Geography at University of Sao Paulo – FFLCH – USP. > continue
Monocropping of Sugarcane and Counter-Agrarian Reform
Maria Luisa Mendonça
Sunday 11 July 2010
Maria Luisa Mendonça is a journalist and director of the Network for Social Justice and Human Rights, and is currently pursuing a PHD in Geography at the University of São Paulo (USP).
This article was translated into English by Sheila Rutz, with the support of Global (...) > continue
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia March 24-26, 2010
Final Report
Civil Society Consultation on FAO’s Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Land and Natural Resources Tenure
Thursday 8 July 2010
Background
The Asian Regional Civil Society Consultation provided an opportunity for different constituencies to contribute in the FAO’s process of coming up with Voluntary Guidelines that provides a framework for governments and other interest groups on responsible land and resource (...) > continue
Responsibly Destroying the World’s Peasantry
Olivier De Schutter
Wednesday 9 June 2010
Red Sugar, Green Deserts
Report on monocultures and human rights
Wednesday 9 June 2010
The Spanish version of the report "Red Sugar, Green Deserts. Latin American report on monocultures and violations of the Human Rights to adequate food and housing, to water, to land and to territory" which was launched in Copenhagen in December 2009 by the organizations FIAN (FoodFirst (...) > continue
Inter-American Development Bank Megaprojects: Displacement and Forced Migration
Tuesday 1 June 2010
For the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (the English acronym is NALAAC), an organization of communities of Latin American migrants who live in the Diaspora of globalization, displacement of communities and forced migration comprise the central issue. We in Latin (...) > continue
