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A coalition of Indonesian Civil Society Organisations have submitted further allegations against Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) member First Resources Ltd., accusing the company of violating the RSPO Group Membership Rules for failing to disclose all of its related entities under the group’s common control.

This report summarises why social audits fail to uphold certification standards and offers possible solutions to re-build confidence in the audit system.

In response to the growing concerns over the failure of certification schemes to uphold their own standards, FPP has just published a new report which emphasizes the urgent need to overhaul current audit processes and provides practical solutions on how to accomplish this.

We, who are speaking today in Jakarta are the people of indigenous and local communities from Riau, West Sumatra, West Kalimantan, and Central Kalimantan that currently standing as the victim of the palm oil plantation companies.

In the Palm Oil sector, it is increasingly common for corporate groups owned by an individual or family to conceal control of problematic assets.

Di sektor Sawit, makin menjadi umum praktek di mana group perusahaan yang dimiliki oleh individu atau keluarga untuk menyembunyikan aset-aset bermasalah.

Over the coming months, FPP will publish a series of blogs that documents the experiences that indigenous peoples, local communities and local civil society organisations in producer countries have had with certification processes.

This is the first in a series of blogs that FPP will be publishing over the coming months aiming to share experiences of certification schemes by communities and activists on the ground whose rights are impacted by agribusiness. 

Este es el primero de una serie de blogs que el FPP publicará en los próximos meses.

Ce blog est le premier d’une série que FPP publiera au cours des prochains mois dans le but de partager les expériences liées aux systèmes de certification qui sont vécues par les communautés et les militants sur le terrain et dont les

Ini adalah yang pertama dari serangkaian blog yang akan diterbitkan FPP sepanjang beberapa bulan mendatang yang bertujuan untuk berbagi pengalaman skema sertifikasi oleh komunitas dan aktivis di lapangan yang haknya terdampak oleh agri

This report carried out by Forest Peoples Programme for the Global Canopy compiles what is known about the human rights impacts of palm oil development and provides guidance on how to address these abuses.

Read AIDESEP’s original open letter, which demanded urgent actions from the Peruvian State, Ocho Sur's international palm oil buyers, the RSPO and international civil society.

AIDESEP strongly rejects the campaign promoted by the palm oil corporate group Ocho Sur. We denounce that this company has been undermining the self-determination and self-government of the Amazonian indigenous peoples of Ucayali and our possibilities of building a Full Life in our territories.

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There are currently legislative initiatives underway in the EU, the UK and the US seeking to reduce the impact of consumption and business activities in these jurisdictions on global deforestation.

This week, Indigenous and human rights organisations submitted a complaint to the United Nations Working Group on the issue of Human Rights and Transnational Corporations regarding human rights violations and environmental damage caused by an oil palm plantation operated by the Ocho Sur group in Ucayali, in th

Esta semana organizaciones indígenas y de derechos humanos presentaron una denuncia al Grupo de Trabajo de las Naciones Unidas sobre la cuestión de los Derechos Humanos y las Empresas Transnacionales con relación a violaciones de derechos humanos y daños ambien

A new study, released today, details the main causes of these conflicts and exposes the limited resources rural Indonesians have to seek resolution and redress for land loss.

A wide-ranging human rights impact assessment reveals systemic human rights abuses in the palm oil sector in ‘Jurisdictional Approach’ pilots in Indonesia.