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Author: Socfin
…Ces groupes se réclament d’une association dénommée SYNAPARCAM et disent agir contre « les accaparements de leurs terres par les groupes BOLLORE et SOCFIN »…Cette affirmation est un mensonge…Toutes ses concessions ont été acquises légalement et chaque...
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Sierra Leone: 2 Socfin employees shot during land protest
Author: Umaru Fofana, Reuters
'Belgian, Zimbabwean shot in land protest in Sierra Leone', 17 Jan 2015: A Belgian and a Zimbabwean working for…Socfin…have been shot during a protest over land rights…The…company…is embroiled in a bitter feud with local landowners in the Malen...
- Related in-depth areas: Natural resources (land, water, forests)
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Sierra Leone Govt. & African Minerals allegedly involved in forced relocation Tonkolili residents & abuses of workers' rights, Human Rights Watch report
Sierra Leone police open fire during anti-palm oil protest
Author: Tommy Trenchard, Reuters
Police in Sierra Leone opened fire on Tuesday on an armed protest against the expansion of palm oil plantations...by...Socfin Group, a police chief said. The Luxembourg-registered company, part of the business empire of...Vincent Bollore, has been...
- Related companies: Addax & Oryx Group Addax Bioenergy (part of Addax & Oryx Group) Socfin
[PDF] Human Rights Due Diligence - Policy measures for effective implementation
Author: CIDSE
Human rights due diligence has been receiving greater attention from policymakers, businesses and civil society groups since the adoption of the United Nations (UN) Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework in 2008 and its Guiding Principles on Business ...
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- Related companies: Aviva Glencore Michelin Nestlé Sagittarius Mines Inc (SMI) Socfin
Author: Point de contact national français - OCDE
Le Point de contact national (PCN) pour la mise en œuvre des Principes directeurs de l’OCDE à l’intention des entreprises multinationales a été saisi le 3 décembre 2010 par un groupe de quatre [ONG] et associations camerounaises, française, et...
Sierra Leone Farmers Evicted for Sugarcane Biofuel Plantations
Author: Jennifer Kennedy, CorpWatch
Addax Bioenergy…is jeopardizing the livelihoods of thousands of subsistence farmers…according to the Sierra Leone Network on the Right to Food (SiLNoRF) and Brot Für Alle (Bread for All)... Addax has planted…sugar cane on large areas of productive...
- Related companies: Addax & Oryx Group Addax Bioenergy (part of Addax & Oryx Group) Socfin
Sierra Leone: local resistance grows as investors snap up land
Author: Claire Provost, and Paige McClanahan, Guardian [UK]
Ten years after the end of civil war in Sierra Leone, the government is taking great pains to attract large-scale agribusiness investments, which it says will help boost exports and employment opportunities. But some local NGOs and civil society...
Regulating the Rush for Land [Africa]
Author: Jessica McDiarmid, Inter Press Service (IPS)
The adoption of international guidelines to regulate so-called land grabs has been pushed to next year after negotiators failed to agree on conditions for large-scale land investments and enforcement. The guidelines, in the making for several years,...
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