Action Alerts

Issues

Country

Action alerts

Your support is urgently needed! Land defender violently killed by a security guard of Canadian palm oil company Feronia in the DRC

We ask for your urgent support. Please sign on to the Action Alert. It is important to send the letter as soon as possible.

24 July 2019
Action alerts

Land defender violently killed by a security guard of a Canadian palm oil company in the DR Congo

A member of the Congolese environmental and human rights organisation RIAO-RDC was brutally killed by a security guard of the Canadian palm oil company Feronia Inc. on Sunday, July 21, 2019, near the company’s Boteka plantations in Bempumba, Eqauteur Province, DRC.

23 July 2019
Action alerts

DRC communities file complaint with German development bank to resolve century-old land conflict with palm oil company

Nine communities from the DR Congo took a historic step this week by filing a complaint with the complaints mechanism of the German development bank (Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft – DEG)

6 November 2018
Action alerts

Development finance institutions are funding Feronia Inc., a company accused of land grabbing and human rights abuses in DRC

Several prominent development finance institutions (DFIs) are funding Feronia Inc., a Canadian agribusiness company accused of land grabbing and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

1 June 2015