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All Africa: Liberia President Sirleaf Receives Draft Land Rights Policy At National Validation Conference

24 .05. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

All Africa: Liberia President Sirleaf Receives Draft Land Rights Policy At National Validation Conference

As seen on AllAfrica 21 May 2013 Monrovia” Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says the draft Land Rights Policy” presented to her at the conclusion…

CED, Cameroun : SGSOC/Herakles Farms – Dévoilée

23 .05. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

CED, Cameroun : SGSOC/Herakles Farms – Dévoilée

CED” Cameroun : SGSOC/Herakles Farms – Dévoilée

The Southern Times: How land grabs hurt Africa

20 .05. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

The Southern Times: How land grabs hurt Africa

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Forest Peoples Programme: FPP and partners launch pioneering book on Indigenous Peoples and Free” Prior and Informed Consent in the Democratic Republic of Congo

17 .05. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Forest Peoples Programme: FPP and partners launch pioneering book on Indigenous Peoples and Free” Prior and Informed Consent in the Democratic Republic of Congo

As part of its project: “REDD financing” Human Rights and Economic Development for Sustainable Poverty Reduction of forest communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo…

Reuters: Cameroon hopes EU timber labelling can protect forests

14 .05. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Reuters: Cameroon hopes EU timber labelling can protect forests

Photo by: Ministry of Forests (MINFOF)   As seen on Reuters   YAOUNDE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Cameroon’s government has introduced a new timber mark…

CED: Lettre ouverte au Président de la République au sujet de la nomination de représentants des peuples autochtones au Sénat

08 .05. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

CED: Lettre ouverte au Président de la République au sujet de la nomination de représentants des peuples autochtones au Sénat

CED: Lettre ouverte au Président de la République au sujet de la nomination de représentants des peuples autochtones au Sénat

Afrika (in German): Kampf gegen den Landraub

07 .05. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Afrika (in German): Kampf gegen den Landraub

Afrika

Corriere (in Italian): In Camerun quasi metà della terra è oggetto di “land grabbing”: e nessuno combatte più

07 .05. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Corriere (in Italian): In Camerun quasi metà della terra è oggetto di “land grabbing”: e nessuno combatte più

Il Corriere    

All Africa (in French): Cameroun: Accordez des droits fonciers aux communautés locales

06 .05. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

All Africa (in French): Cameroun: Accordez des droits fonciers aux communautés locales

Comme on le voit sur All Africa Yaounde — Entourées par une plantation de caoutchouc à l'ouest” une plantation forestière à l'est et une palmeraie…

Les Echos: Cameroun: “corruption” lors de l’acquisition de terres pour un projet américain (rapport)

02 .05. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Les Echos: Cameroun: “corruption” lors de l’acquisition de terres pour un projet américain (rapport)

Les Echos: Cameroun: “corruption” lors de l'acquisition de terres pour un projet américain (rapport)

Reuters: Exclusive: Resource Deals Audit Overshadows Liberia Anti-graft Push

01 .05. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Reuters: Exclusive: Resource Deals Audit Overshadows Liberia Anti-graft Push

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All Africa: Liberia 'We Made Mistakes' – Sirleaf Admits Missteps in Gvl Concession” Intervenes in Sinoe

30 .04. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

All Africa: Liberia 'We Made Mistakes' – Sirleaf Admits Missteps in Gvl Concession” Intervenes in Sinoe

As posted on AllAfrica.com on 28 April 2013. President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's intervention in a long-running” controversial land saga in oil-palm rich Sinoe County has paved…

AllAfrica: African Governments Recognise Land Rights but Promote Landgrabbing

26 .04. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

AllAfrica: African Governments Recognise Land Rights but Promote Landgrabbing

As seen on AllAfrica By Monde Kingsley Nfor” 25 April 2013 Yaoundé — Bordered by a rubber plantation in the west” a forestry plantation in…

Inter Press Service: Come Grab Our Land

25 .04. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Inter Press Service: Come Grab Our Land

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African Arguments: East African Communities Rising Against Land Acquisition

24 .04. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

African Arguments: East African Communities Rising Against Land Acquisition

As seen on African Arguments. The Endoris” a minority community of about 60″ 000 people lives a precarious life in the North Rift Valley Kenya….

Voice of America:  Growing Pressure for Land Reform in Cameroon

16 .04. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Voice of America: Growing Pressure for Land Reform in Cameroon

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ThinkAfricaPress: Who Owns the Land? Cameroon's Large-Scale Land-Grabs

15 .04. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

ThinkAfricaPress: Who Owns the Land? Cameroon's Large-Scale Land-Grabs

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Al Jazeera:  'Quick-fix' development gives away more than it gets back

15 .04. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Al Jazeera: 'Quick-fix' development gives away more than it gets back

Al Jazeera

Green Pages: Q+A: Forest-tenure reform advances” but questions remain

10 .04. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Green Pages: Q+A: Forest-tenure reform advances” but questions remain

As seen on Green Pages Brazil nut harvesters in Puerto Maldonado” Peru. CIFOR/Gabriela Ramirez Galindo LIMA” Peru (10 April” 2013) – In the past three…

AllAfrica: Liberia: Ellen Wants Companies to Relinquish Lands

08 .04. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

AllAfrica: Liberia: Ellen Wants Companies to Relinquish Lands

As seen on AllAfrica President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has asked agricultural companies occupying more land then they can now cultivate to consider relinquishing those areas to…

PRESSTV: Are African countries giving away too much land at the expense of their people?

03 .04. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

PRESSTV: Are African countries giving away too much land at the expense of their people?

As seen on PRESSTV The international NGO Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) has released two reports” examining land transactions in West and Central Africa” which…

Bloomberg: Asian Palm-Oil Planters head to West Africa

02 .04. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

Bloomberg: Asian Palm-Oil Planters head to West Africa

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CED: Rapport sur la Transparence dans le secteur foncier au Cameroun

01 .04. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

CED: Rapport sur la Transparence dans le secteur foncier au Cameroun

CED: Rapport sur la Transparence dans le secteur foncier au Cameroun

AllAfrica: Cameroon: Forest Dwellers Lose Out as Land Handed to Developers

29 .03. 2013   |   Rights and Resources Initiative

AllAfrica: Cameroon: Forest Dwellers Lose Out as Land Handed to Developers

As seen on AllAfrica.com Kribi — Forest dwellers forced off their land in southern Cameroon after it was leased to private companies have been allowed…

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