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Palm oil in Brazil: in Brazil: Sign the petition to return the lands to indigenous and quilombola communities

Oil palm plantations are spreading like wildfire across the eastern Brazilian Amazon. But local communities are standing up to the palm oil industry’s brutality and sweeping land grabs, demanding the return of their ancestral lands and calling on the authorities to protect them from encroachment and violence.
6 May 2024
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Sign the petition to stop Industria Chiquibul's violence against communities in Guatemala!

We call on organizations to sign this petition in support of the Mayan Q’eqchi community Santa Elena in the northern region of Guatemala. The community is asking for international and national support in the face of recent threats and growing criminalization by Industria Chiquibul, a palm company that supplies palm oil to transnational corporations such as Nestle and Unilever. Read and sign the letter below.
28 February 2024
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Your support is needed! Sign this petition by women in Cameroon resisting industrial oil palm plantations

Sign this petition against the replanting of oil palm by Socapalm (Socfin/ Bolloré) in the vicinity of the homes and tombs of the neighbouring village Apouh à Ngog, in Edea-Cameroon.
28 November 2023
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PHC Congo: European development banks must be held accountable for broken mediation process

Collective statement, 20 November 2023
20 November 2023
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Brazil BioFuels (BBF) carries out armed attack against communities in Pará, Brazil

28 April 2023
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DR Congo: Undermined by violence, a development bank mediation process requires immediate government action

24 February 2023
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République Démocratique du Congo: Polices et militaires tirent à balles réelles sur des ouvriers de PHC en grève

(Only available in French) Polices et militaires tirent à balles réelles sur des ouvriers de la Société FERONIA/PHC en grève à la plantation de Boteka.

11 January 2022
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RDC: Entretien avec Mme Augin Nolofana, la maman d'un jeune villageois de Mwingi, qui aurait été tué par les agents de la société PHC/KKM

Available only in French.

11 May 2021
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DR Congo palm oil company bankrolled by development banks unleashes wave of violence against villagers after peaceful protests

A young man was killed and other people are still in prison. It was after a protest against the failure of the PHC company to provide local communities with any benefits after 100 years of illegally occupying their land.

10 March 2021
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DR Congo: Call for the immediate release of people arrested after a protest against the palm oil company PHC

RIAO-RDC and international NGOs calls for the immediate release of community leaders and villagers from the communities of Mwingi, Bolesa and Yanongo who were arrested after a peaceful protest against the palm oil company PHC. An urgent action alert is open to sign-ons.

18 February 2021
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DR Congo: Communities take back control over land stolen from them and urge the oil palm company Feronia to confirm their announcement to “abandon” the land

More than 100 years ago, lands were stolen from communities in DR Congo for industrial oil palm production. Since 2009, those lands are under control of the company FERONIA.

16 June 2020
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Action Alert! Immediate release of villagers in the DR Congo imprisoned on false charges related to a land conflict with Feronia Inc.

Groups call for the immediate release of villagers in the DR Congo imprisoned for over 5 months on false charges related to a land conflict with the Canadian oil palm plantation company Feronia Inc. Sign the letter!!!

11 February 2020