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In a public statement the indigenous organisation COIAM, representing all the most active indigenous peoples' organisations in the Venezuelan Amazon, have expressed their opposition to government negotiations with foreign companies to open up their ancestral territories to mining without consultation or sharing of information. There are especially concerned by the advanced plans of a Chinese Corporation named as Citic Group with prospecting camps in a number of strategic locations in the indigenous peoples' heartlands.

En février et mars 2013, de nombreux représentants d’ONG travaillant avec les femmes et peuples autochtones ainsi que des chefs autochtones se sont réunis à Béni, Bukavu, Goma et Kinshasa afin de préparer un rapport alternatif au Comité pour l’élimination de la discrimination à l’égard des femmes (Comité CÉDEF). 

PRESS INFORMATION - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 25 March 2013

Instances of conflict between communities and large-scale agricultural concessions have recently brought the issues of land and human rights into focus in Liberia, and throughout Africa.

Rural communities in Grand Cape Mount, north-western Liberia, have been at the sharp end of a dispute with Malaysian oil palm giant Sime Darby, that received national and international attention.

Press release from the Lawyer’s Association for the Human Rights of Nepal’s Indigenous Peoples (LAHURNIP):

Kathmandu, 15 March 2013

In a meeting with World Bank officials today, representatives of indigenous and local communities of Sindhuli district in central Nepal have urged the Bank to take actions for alternatives to the construction of Khimti-Dhalkebar 220 KV Transmission Line in the district under Nepal Power Development Project co-financed by the Bank.