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WOLTS End of Year News 2021
16 December 2021
Africa
Tanzania
Asia
Mongolia
Global

After adapting to challenges of COVID-19, 2021 turned into a very busy and exciting year for the global 

Major clothing brands contribute to deforestation in Cambodia, report finds
3 December 2021
Cambodia
  • A new report suggests that the garment industry is contributing to deforestation in Cambodia due to factories relying on illegal forest wood to generate electricity.
30 July 2021
Burkina Faso

Adama Soro, vice-président chargé des relations du Groupe Endeavour pour le Burkina Faso, est le nouveau président de la Chambre des mines du Burkina (CMB) depuis le 25 juin 2021. Dans cet entretien accordé à Sidwaya, il décline ses ambitions pour le secteur minier burkinabè sous son mandat.

Alleged land grabbers torch ex-minister’s sugarcane plantation
20 August 2021
Uganda

Suspected land grabbers have encroached on the 60-acre piece of land belonging to Henry Kyemba, a career politician and former minister, and torched his sugarcanes plantation.

The land, located in Model Farm Village, Njeru Municipality in Buikwe District, has been used as farmland and is adjacent to the government Njeru stock farm and Lords Meade Vocational Institute.

Land Policy Researcher
7 September 2021
Global

This position will collaborate with the Director and Research Staff of the Law School's Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment to execute the Center’s applied research agenda on the laws, policies, and practices that shape international investment and its alignment with sustainable development and human right

Forest Reserve near the Village of Masako, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. CIFOR/Ollivier Girard
16 November 2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Coordination, data and inclusivity key to move ahead, says study


Workers at the oil palm plantations of Feronia Inc in Lokutu, DR Congo. The Canadian company received over $140 million from development banks. Image: Beeld Hollandse Hoogte(link is external) / Kris Pannecoucke
12 November 2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo

From 9-12 November 2020, 450 finance institutions from around the world will gather(link is external) for the first international meeting of public development banks, dubbed the “Finance in Common” summit, hosted by the French government.

Cooperation, traceability needed to ensure success of DRC artisanal mining
17 July 2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo

he successful integration of a number of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been driven by cooperation with large-scale miners (LSMs), refiners, traders and the embedding of traceability measures, says natural resource t

The Hands That Steal: Who Is Benefitting From Aid to the DRC?  Read more at: https://www.theelephant.info/op-eds/2020/07/17/the-hands-that-steal-who-is-benefitting-from-aid-to-the-drc/ The Elephant - Speaking truth to power.
17 July 2020
Democratic Republic of the Congo

A review by an anti-fraud taskforce has revealed massive corruption in the DRC involving employees of the UN and international NGOs. Lack of oversight on how aid to the DRC’s vulnerable populations is dispersed has allowed bribery to flourish in one of the world’s most mineral-rich and conflict-prone countries.

Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images
16 October 2020
Botswana
Namibia

Reports suggesting that a Canadian oil and gas firm is planning to start hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in one of Africa’s most sensitive environmental areas along the Namibia-Botswana border have made environmentalists, civil society organisations and local communities apprehensive about the long term effects of the activity on the Okavango Delta, one of Africa’s last natural sanctuaries.

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AZMEC is the Association of Zambian Mineral Exploration Companies.


The aims and objectives of AZMEC are to provide a discussion forum and dedicated lobby group for mineral exploration companies and mining companies carrying out exploration as well as government representatives, NGO’s, service providers, academic institutions and other interested parties in Zambia with the view to contributing to the growth, promotion, and sustainable development of the sector in this country.

“Global change – local conflicts? Land conflicts in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa in the context of interdependent transformation processes” (GLOCON) is a Junior Research Group working on the correlation between global change and local conflicts over land. The research project explores how global spatial-temporal transformation processes affect local land conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Its focus lies furthermore on the analysis of systematic similarities and differences between those regions.

 

Green Scenery is concerned that 60% of the total area in one of the districts in Sierra Leone could soon be converted for large-scale industrial oil palm plantations.

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Imazon (Imazon)

No final dos anos 1980, as imagens de destruição da Amazônia começavam a ganhar destaque na imprensa nacional e mundial. O desmatamento acelerado, as queimadas, a exploração predatória de madeira e a proliferação dos garimpos de ouro exerciam grande pressão ambiental e social sobre a região. Nessa época, o ecólogo norte-americano Christopher Uhl, então pesquisador visitante da Embrapa, realizava pesquisas sobre as áreas degradadas no leste do Pará e preocupava-se com o pouco entendimento e a escassa documentação dessas transformações na paisagem Amazônica.

IPIECA develops, shares and promotes good practice and knowledge to help the industry and improve its environmental and social performance. We do this with the understanding that the issues that dominate the sustainable development agenda – climate and energy, environmental and social issues – are too big for individual companies to tackle alone. The industry must work together to achieve improvements that have real impact. IPIECA helps to achieve this goal. 


KDNG is a network of Kachin civil society groups and development organizations inside Kachin State and abroad. It was in September 2004.


KDNG promotes the formation of a healthy civil society based on equality and justice for local people. It works to document the military government's exploitation of natural resources, collecting information large scale development including mining, mono crop plantation and hydropower.


Land Development and Governance Institute

 

MISSION: To contribute to improved livelihoods through offering a bridge between communities, stakeholders and policy makers in the promotion of equitable access and sustainable management of land and natural resources.

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The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) is South Africa’s largest public interest, human rights law clinic. Established in 1979, we use the law as an instrument of justice for the vulnerable and marginalised, including poor, homeless and landless people.

London Mining Network (LMN) is an alliance of human rights, development, environmental and solidarity groups.


We work for


  • human rights, including the rights of Indigenous Peoples and workers, and

Our vision, values & goals


We believe that poverty is unjustifiable and preventable, that the present state of inequality and injustice must be challenged, and that with the right help, poor people can change their lives for the better.


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REPOA was formed in 1994 in Tanzania with the mandate to contribute to the alleviation of poverty in its multiple dimensions through research and capacity building. Over time, REPOA’s mandate has expanded beyond alleviating poverty to encompass growth and socio-economic transformation for poverty reduction.


REPOA’s STRATEGIC PLAN FOR 2015-2019


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