#évictions_forcées

VIEQUES, AU LARGE DE PORTO RICO. Sous la plage, les bombes
▻https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/2007/01/25/sous-la-plage-les-bombes

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Je ne connaissais pas cette histoire

Lisant, au printemps 2006, un article du magazine Caribbean Edge sur #Vieques, cette petite île située à 7 milles de la côte de Porto Rico, je m’étonnais. L’auteur y vantait “ses forêts luxuriantes, ses plages immaculées et ses eaux cristallines” et en faisait “l’endroit idéal pour se détendre et découvrir les charmes paisibles d’une île caribéenne vraiment nature”. Il a dû se tromper d’île, me suis-je dit. Il ne peut s’agir de l’île utilisée pendant plus de cinquante ans par l’armée américaine comme terrain d’essai pour ses armes aériennes, un endroit où le taux de cancers est de 30 % supérieur au reste de #Porto_Rico, celui d’hypertensions de 381 % supérieur et celui de cirrhoses de 95 % plus élevé.

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#colonie #évictions_forcées #terrain_militaire #bombardements #mort #contestations #répression #parc_naturel #tourisme malgré #pollutions

farmlandgrab.org | Villagers displaced by Neumann Kaffee’s plantation face another land grab in Mubende, Uganda
▻https://www.farmlandgrab.org/post/view/29161

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Villagers displaced by Neumann Kaffee’s plantation face another land grab in Mubende, Uganda

#café #Ouganda #terres #évictions_forcées

Former MP, investors evict thousands in Kiryandongo
▻https://observer.ug/news/headlines/61572-former-mp-investors-evict-thousands-in-kiryandongo

Former Kiryandongo district Member of Parliament (MP), Baitera Maiteki, an American and an Indian investor have been accused of evicting thousands of people in the western districts of Kiryandongo and Masindi.

The evicted people were living in the gazetted government ranches in Mutunda and Kiryandongo sub-counties along the River Nile. Kiryandongo Sugar, allegedly owned by some Indians, Agilis, owned by an American called Philip Investor, and Sole Agro Business Company, also owned by Indians, have been named in the evictions.

Agilis is said to have bought ranches 21-22, from SODARI, an agricultural farm that collapsed. SODARI got a lease from government, which ends in 2025. However, it was revealed to the Land Commission of Inquiry that Agilis, bought land that was leased, yet legally, no one is supposed to buy leased land.

Agro Business was reportedly given about 60 hectares and displaced all people in the area. Kiryandongo Sugar also forcefully evicted people in the area and ploughed all the land, denying some residents farmland and access roads.

#Ouganda #évictions_forcées #terres

Lao Protest Villagers Held Since 2017 Have Been Sentenced
▻https://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/sentenced-08062019170758.html

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Nine Lao villagers held for over two years for protesting the loss of land awarded by the government to a Vietnamese rubber company have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from two to six years, sources in the communist Southeast Asian state said.

The nine, all residents of Sekong province’s Yeub village, were sentenced by a provincial court on June 27, with news of their convictions delayed from reaching outside contacts because of strict police surveillance of family members and friends.

“We do not accept the court’s decision, but there is nothing we can do,” a relative of one of the men sentenced told RFA’s Lao Service on Monday.

“We were fighting for justice after our land was grabbed by officials so they could hand it over to a Vietnamese company, but the court ruled that we were guilty,” the villager said, speaking on condition of anonymity.[...]

Land grabs and the appropriation of public property to turn over to foreign and domestic companies are common in Laos, and villagers affected by them often refuse to speak out publicly because they fear retribution.

#terres #Laos #évictions_forcées #caoutchouc #violences_policières

In Indonesia, a company intimidates, evicts and plants oil palm without permits
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/in-indonesia-a-company-intimidates-evicts-and-plants-oil-palm-without

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A state-owned plantation company, PTPN XIV, is evicting farmers to make room for an oil palm estate on the eastern Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
In 1973, the company got a permit to raise cattle and farm tapioca on the now-disputed land, but it expired in 2003. After a long hiatus, the company has returned to claim the land. It says the government has promised to give it permits in the future, but has started operations anyway even as local communities resist.
The case is one of thousands of land disputes simmering across Indonesia, as President Joko Widodo attempts to carry out an ambitious land reform program.
The president has also ordered a freeze on the issuance of new oil palm plantation permits, but the level of enforcement remains to be seen.

#Indonésie #industrie_palmiste #évictions_forcées #terres

Millions of forest-dwelling indigenous people in India to be evicted | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/22/millions-of-forest-dwelling-indigenous-people-in-india-to-be-evicted

Millions of Indians face eviction after the country’s supreme court ruled that indigenous people illegally living on forest land should move.

Campaigners for the rights of tribal and forest-dwelling people have called the court’s decision on Wednesday “an unprecedented disaster” and “the biggest mass eviction in the name of conservation, ever”.
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The ruling came in response to petitions filed by various wildlife conservation groups, which wanted the court to declare the 2006 Forest Rights Act invalid. The act gives forest dwelling people the right to their ancestral lands, including those in specially “protected” areas that contain sanctuaries and wildlife parks to conserve wild life. The groups told the court that “tribal” people in 20 states had encroached illegally on these protected areas, jeopardising efforts to protect wildlife and forests.

The conservation groups said state governments should see if families could prove their claim under the act and, if they could, they should be allowed to live and work on the land. If they failed to prove their claim, they should be evicted by the state government.

The supreme court has ordered the 20 state governments – where claims were considered by special committees – to act on about 1.1m claims now rejected as bogus and evict the families. Depending on the size of the families, more than 1m claims could translate to about 5-7 million people being evicted by 27 July.

Survival International’s director, Stephen Corry, said: “This judgment is a death sentence for millions of tribal people in India, land theft on an epic scale and a monumental injustice. It will lead to wholesale misery, impoverishment, disease and death, an urgent humanitarian crisis, and it will do nothing to save the forests which these tribespeople have protected for generations.”

Protests flare in Odisha over eviction of a million forest families
▻https://countercurrents.org/2019/02/21/supreme-court-of-india-orders-forced-eviction-of-1-million-adivasis

#Inde #forêt #peuples_des_forêts #intouchables #évictions_forcées #guerre_aux_pauvres

Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever | The Oakland Institute
▻https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/tanzania-safari-businesses-maasai-losing-serengeti

Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever is based on field research, never publicly-seen-before documents, and an in-depth investigation into Tanzania’s land laws. This report is the first to reveal the complicity between Tanzanian government officials and foreign companies as they use conservation laws to dispossess the Maasai, driving them into smaller and smaller areas and creating a stifling map of confinement.

The report specifically exposes the devastating impact of two foreign companies on the lives and livelihoods of the Maasai villagers in the Loliondo area of the Ngorongoro District—Tanzania Conservation Ltd (TCL), a safari business operated by the owners of Boston-based high-end safari outfitter Thomson Safaris; and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based Ortello Business Corporation (OBC), which runs hunting excursions for the country’s royal family and their guests.

According to local villagers, TCL has made their lives impossible by denying them access to water and land and cooperating with local police who have beaten and arrested the Maasai. Meanwhile, for 25 years, the OBC had an exclusive hunting license, during which time there were several violent evictions of the Maasai, many homes were burnt, and thousands of rare animals were killed. Although Tanzania’s Ministry of Natural Resources cancelled OBC’s license last year, the OBC remains active in the area, while the local villagers live in fear.

#Serengeti #Maasaï #Tanzanie #évictions_forcées #terres #plaisirs_du_prince #safari #chasse

Driven from home, Philippine indigenous people long for their land | PLACE
▻http://www.thisisplace.org/i/?id=09b0b6cd-b48a-4024-bb44-d28d9f91ca66

This time feels different; we have been forced to leave our homes, and we are being told we need to give up our lands for our own good. But we cannot live like this - we belong in our ancestral lands, and we want to go back," he said.

The Lumad in Mindanao in southern Philippines are part of nearly 17 million indigenous people in the country. They are among the poorest of minority groups, with little access to social services including education and healthcare, experts say.

They have been caught in the middle of a five-decade old insurgency, as well as a push by logging and mining companies to tap Mindanao’s rich resources including gold, copper and nickel, after President Rodrigo Duterte said he would welcome investors.

Their vulnerability has been exacerbated by the extension of martial law imposed in Mindanao last May by Duterte, who has called the island a “flashpoint for trouble” and atrocities by Islamist and communist rebels.

“Duterte is waging war against defenceless indigenous people in Mindanao,” said Duphing Ogan, secretary general of indigenous peoples’ alliance Kalumaran.

#Philippines #terres #peuples_autochtones #discriminations #évictions_forcées

#Philippine palm oil plan ‘equals corruption and land-grabbing,’ critics say : Conservation news
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/philippine-palm-oil-plan-equals-corruption-and-land-grabbing-critics-

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If the street Pedro Arnado was looking down was on the Philippine government’s roadmap for future palm oil development, critics say it would be one highly dangerous to navigate, lined with the hazards of unfair labor practices, land poverty, militarization and environmental degradation.

Arnado is the Secretary General of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Peasant Movement of the Philippines) in Southern Mindanao, or KMP, and a spokesperson for the Farmer’s Association in Davao City. On January 26, 2017, he stood on the edge of a crowded rally of peasants, trade union members and indigenous people at Rizal Park in Davao City, Mindanao, describing how the palm oil industry has affected the farmers and communities in other provinces of Mindanao where plantations have already been operating. He says that the business-oriented development of palm oil “equals corruption and land-grabbing.”

#industrie_palmiste #terres #peuples_autochtones #militarisation #évictions_forcées va falloir que je m’attèle à ce gros !

Vertueuses, les multinationales ? - Le business de l’aide au développement
▻http://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/059525-000-A/vertueuses-les-multinationales

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Une part croissante de l’aide publique au développement serait-elle détournée au profit de grandes multinationales du secteur #agroalimentaire ? Une enquête stupéfiante menée dans trois pays africains.

Lutter contre la malnutrition au #Kenya en investissant des fonds publics pour l’aide au développement dans une société important à Nairobi des pizzas surgelées fabriquées en Allemagne ? Le projet peut paraître absurde, c’est pourtant l’un des nombreux exemples d’une dérive dans laquelle est impliquée aujourd’hui l’aide publique européenne au développement. Pour lutter contre l’insécurité alimentaire et la grande pauvreté, les pays donateurs misent sur les mécanismes du partenariat public-privé et, ce faisant, investissent une part croissante de leur aide au développement dans le soutien au secteur privé plutôt que dans les structures étatiques. C’est encore plus vrai depuis qu’en 2012 le G8 a lancé l’Alliance pour la sécurité alimentaire et la nutrition, associant 230 entreprises privées et dix pays africains pour le #développement de projets agroalimentaires d’envergure sur les territoires de ces derniers.

#nasan #ppp #Afrique

Peasants’ houses in Mekar Jaya - the ‘‘hometown of agrarian reform’’ in Indonesia - razed down by a plantation firm
▻https://viacampesina.org/en/index.php/main-issues-mainmenu-27/human-rights-mainmenu-40/peasants-right-resources/2267-peasants-houses-in-mekar-jaya-the-hometown-of-agrarian-reform-in-

It is cruelly ironical.

Less than 72 hours after President Joko Widodo’s orders to implement the agrarian reform through land redistribution as a step to address economic disparity and inequality, peasant families of Mekar Jaya Village in Langkat District of North Sumatera Province in Indonesia were in for a rude shock.

Langkat Nusantara Kepong Ltd (LNK) a Malaysian firm with interests in palm oil plantations, did exactly the opposite by evicting these families from their own lands and razing their houses to the ground. 554 hectares of land have been forcefully grabbed from peasants by this Corporation, in a series of attempts made since the 18th of November 2016.

In the latest of those actions, carried out on Monday the 27th of March, seventy houses have been razed down to the ground.

The affected peasant families, who are members of the Indonesian Peasants’ Union (SPI), have so far been putting up a brave fight. But with nowhere to stay and their houses gone, the distress and despair is strikingly evident.

#Indonésie #industrie_palmiste #évictions_forcées #terres #foncier

L’Ethiopie inaugure un barrage controversé - Magazine GoodPlanet Info
▻https://www.goodplanet.info/actualite/2016/12/19/lethiopie-inaugure-barrage-controverse

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L’#Ethiopie a inauguré samedi le barrage le plus haut d’Afrique, un projet qui doit lui permettre de presque doubler sa capacité énergétique mais qui menace, selon ses détracteurs, le mode de vie des populations locales ainsi qu’un lac kényan classé au patrimoine mondial de l’Humanité.

« Cette centrale hydroélectrique, au même titre que d’autres projets en cours, répond à notre besoin en électricité et va également fournir des marchés étrangers », s’est réjoui le Premier ministre Hailemariam Desalegn, lors d’un discours sur le site du barrage, à environ 350 kilomètres au sud-ouest de la capitale Addis Abeba.

Haut de 24 mètres, « #Gibe_III » est le plus important d’une série de barrages hydroélectriques que l’Ethiopie construit le long de l’Omo, qui s’écoule du nord vers le sud.

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Les autorités démentent par ailleurs que le barrage servira uniquement à irriguer les énormes plantations de canne à sucre et de coton détenues à proximité du site par des capitaux étrangers.

#énergie #électricité #irrigation #eau #développement #évictions_forcées #peuples_autochtones

Ethiopians who fled over land rights now face eviction from Calais “Jungle” ...
▻http://news.trust.org/item/20161024114219-am5fi/?source=gep

Deep in the Calais “Jungle” migrant camp in northern France, hundreds of Oromo Ethiopians set up their own school.

An Irish volunteer came to teach classes during the day, but at other times groups of Oromo men, and a few women, gathered to discuss the news from Ethiopia: this month’s announcement of a state of emergency, or the rising death toll in protests.

On the sides of makeshift wooden shelters they painted the crossed arms protest symbol of the Oromo struggle, publicised by Ethiopian marathon runner Feyisa Lilesa at the summer Olympics.

“Feyisa never give up,” was written on one wall, and “Stop killing Oromo students” was scrawled on another.

People from Oromiya, a region at the heart of Ethiopia’s industrialisation efforts, accuse the state of seizing their land and offering tiny compensation, before selling it on to companies, often foreign investors, at inflated prices.

“When we went to demonstrations they killed many people, they arrested many people, they put in jail many people. So we had to escape from the country,” said Solan, a 26-year-old from Addis Ababa.

#terres #Éthiopie #migrations #migrants #asile #évictions_forcées #Calais

Kenya’s Ogiek people forced from homes amid ’colonial approach to conservation’ | Rachel Savage | Global development | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/aug/18/kenyas-ogiek-people-are-seeing-their-land-rights-brutalised?CMP=share_b

They came without warning, forcing people from their homes with no time to collect their possessions. A deaf old man was attacked when he didn’t hear the orders to leave. Then the houses were burned to the ground.

More than 200 families, all from the indigenous #Ogiek minority, were evicted from their homes on the slopes of Mount Elgon in western Kenya by a force of about 50 police and Kenya Forest Service (KFS) rangers in June. “They were armed,” says Peter Kitelo, an Ogiek activist.

While some people found refuge with friends and family, or have been able to build shelters, many still have only trees for cover. “We are really cold. There is no food, there [are] no blankets, there is no shelter,” says Cosmas Murunga, 68, who fled his home with 10 family members as it was set on fire.

About 80,000 Ogiek live close to the border with Uganda and in the Mau forest, roughly 140 miles to the south-east, according to Kenya’s 2009 census (pdf). Both communities of hunter-gatherers have experienced multiple evictions since the British colonial authorities expelled them in the 1930s to make way for forest reserves and white settlers.

c’est beau un paysage sans clôture

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#Kenya #chasseurs_cueilleurs #forêt #évictions_forcées #peuples_autochtones

The sugar industry has been catastrophic for Cambodia’s poor...
▻http://news.trust.org/item/20160622152147-nz9qj

In 2008, the Cambodian government granted Mitr Phol subsidiaries a 200-square-kilometer parcel of land to develop massive cane plantations in the country’s northwest. Yet more than 2,000 families already lived there, eking out a living farming rice and gathering food and medicine from the forest. They made it clear they didn’t want to leave.

No matter: police and private security forces descended on the area in stages, slashing the forests, forcibly evicting residents, bulldozing houses, torching rice fields, and beating and arresting villagers. Landless and unable to make a living, the evicted families have descended deeper into poverty.

Following an investigation conducted last year, the Thai National Human Rights Commission found Mitr Phol directly responsible for the forced evictions and associated human rights violations. The land grabs led to the “collapse of the community,” commissioner Niran Phitakwatchara said at a press conference. Rarely, if ever, has a national human rights commission issued such a strong condemnation of a private company. In its final report, the Commission called upon Mitr Phol to “correct and remedy the impacts.”

Sugar is big business in Cambodia. Under the Everything But Arms initiative, product grown in the country can be shipped duty-free to the EU, where it ends up in soft drinks, sweets and other goods. Tate & Lyle and Coca-Cola are just some of the brands that have benefited from cheap sugar sourced from Cambodia.

Yet the growth of the industry has been catastrophic for the country’s poor. More than 15,000 people have been forcibly evicted to make way for plantations. These evictees have no hope of pursuing justice in the Cambodian courts, which are corrupt and beholden to the elite, or by appealing to government leaders, many of whom enrich themselves through such land deals.

#cambodge #sucre #canne_à_sucre #terres #évictions_forcées #plantations

Jungle Book: Tribes threatened with eviction as Disney movie opens - Survival International
▻http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/11199

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As the new Jungle Book movie is released, tribes across India are being illegally evicted from their lands because they’ve been turned into tiger reserves – while fee-paying tourists are welcomed in.

One of these places is the iconic Kanha Tiger Reserve, the inspiration for Rudyard Kipling’s original novel, from where hundreds of Baiga and Gond tribespeople were illegally evicted in 2014. And forced evictions are once again being threatened in the nearby Achanakmar reserve, despite fierce opposition, and in Amrabad, among others.

Kanha markets itself as the “inspiration” for The Jungle Book, and encourages large-scale tourism on the grounds that “nowhere can you see [tigers] as often.” But few visitors or viewers of the Disney film will be aware of the violence and intimidation inflicted on tribal peoples in the home of The Jungle Book in the name of tiger conservation.

The Forest Department claims that tribes accept “voluntary relocation”, but in reality they are coerced into “accepting” eviction with bribes and the threat of violence. Some are moved to government resettlement camps, but others are simply pushed out and forced to live in abject poverty on the edges of their territory.

Following the Kanha forced evictions in 2014, one Baiga man said: “We were one of the last families to resist. But the people from the reserve forced us to leave. They told us they’d take care of us for three years, but they didn’t do a thing. Even when my brother was killed, no one came to help us.”

Another Baiga tribesperson said: “We are lost – wandering in search of land. Here there is only sadness. We need the jungle.”

Sympa #Disney #évictions_forcées #Inde #peuples_autochtones

How a project with good aims delivered bitter outcomes in Sierra Leone
▻https://theconversation.com/how-a-project-with-good-aims-delivered-bitter-outcomes-in-sierra-le

This project leased 40,000 hectares of land and relocated the farms of thousands of people to grow sugar cane and export ethanol to Europe. The project is primarily owned and managed by a private corporation, but is funded by a consortium of development banks and bilateral development organisations in Europe. The funding exceeds €250 million.

My findings indicate that the project has had a number of negative effects on local communities. These include restructuring of local power dynamics, the marginalisation of women and increased economic inequality.

#canne_à_sucre #agrocarburant #terres #évictions_forcées #Sierra_Leone

Au #Mozambique, de grands groupes agricoles ne font qu’une bouchée des petits fermiers
▻http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/25577-au-mozambique-de-grands-groupes-agricoles-ne-font-quune-bouchee-

Pour le rachat de sa maison et de ses champs de deux hectares, Régina Macomba, une paysanne quinquagénaire de Mutuali (nord), a touché 6.500 meticals, soit l’équivalent de 130 euros ou deux mois de salaire minimum.

Elle n’a pas eu le choix face à Agromoz, une co-entreprise du groupe Amorim, qui appartient à l’homme le plus riche du Portugal, et d’Intelec, l’une des sociétés de l’ancien président mozambicain Armando Guebuza (2005-2015).

En 2012, cette société a obtenu du gouvernement une concession de 10.000 hectares pour cultiver du #soja dans cet endroit reculé proche de la frontière avec le Malawi. Le soja est destiné à nourrir des poulets au Mozambique, selon Agromoz.

Comme la centaine d’autres familles délogées en novembre 2013 pour laisser place à cette installation, Régina Macomba reste traumatisée par son éviction brutale.

« Trois jours après nous avoir indemnisés, les bulldozers étaient là pour détruire nos maisons et nous avons dû emmener nos biens et notre nourriture à l’aube en portant tout sur nos têtes », se rappelle-t-elle.

#terres #évictions_forcées

#COP21 | Aquino solar project grabs Luisita land for ‘climate profits’ | UMA Pilipinas
▻https://umapilipinas.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/cop21-aquino-solar-project-grabs-luisita-land-for-climate-pr

“The TSPP in Luisita is never about renewable energy, reducing carbon emissions, or any other environmental issue that world leaders are supposedly debating about in Paris. The solar power project in Luisita is basically about landgrabbing, swindling and forcibly evicting farmworkers from this promised land,” he said.

UMA stressed that Aquino and his family’s business partners are engaged in this sophisticated landgrabbing effort only for ‘climate profits’ at the expense of the farmworkers. A German company, Conergy, is also a partner in the said PPP project. Corrupt landlords like the Aquino-Cojuangcos can easily brush off the farmers’ legitimate demands for land and justice to accommodate foreign investors who are ready to bankroll these so-called ‘green’ projects, according to UMA.

A similar solar project this time backed by a French company is in fact contested by farmworkers also affiliated with UMA and the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) in Victorias City, Negros Occidental.

#terres #évictions_forcées #solaire #Philippines #climat

Foreign pension funds and land grabbing in Brazil
▻https://www.grain.org/article/entries/5336-foreign-pension-funds-and-land-grabbing-in-brazil

Swedish, US and Canadian pension funds have acquired farmlands in Brazil by way of a Brazilian businessman accused of using violence and fraud to displace small farmers. These pension funds are also using complex company structures that have the effect of evading Brazilian laws restricting foreign investments in farmland.

The pension funds have been investing in Brazil through a global farmland fund called TIAA-CREF Global Agriculture LLC (TCGA). The fund is managed by the US-based Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF). Those investing in the fund include TIAA-CREF, the Second Swedish National Pension Fund (AP2) and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDP) and the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (bcIMC) of Canada.

These pension funds have refused to disclose detailed information about the farmlands acquired by TCGA, saying that this is “competitive information.” They maintain, however, that their investments are in full compliance with the Principles of Responsible Investment in Farmland, which were co-founded by TIAA-CREF and AP2 (See Box 1: TCGA’s principles for “responsible” farmland investment).

#Fonds_de_pensions #terres #Brésil #évictions_forcées

How a World Bank Translator Became a Hunted Man | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
▻http://www.icij.org/project/world-bank/how-world-bank-translator-became-hunted-man

The Ethiopian regime had various reasons for wanting to arrest Agwa, but at that moment, one loomed large: he had recently served as a translator and consultant for an investigation into whether government authorities had used World Bank money to bankroll a campaign of violent evictions targeting Agwa’s Anuak community.

The soft-spoken pastor arranged interviews for the bank’s Inspection Panel, its internal watchdog, with Anuak who told World Bank investigators about beatings, rapes and summary executions by Ethiopian soldiers —placing Ethiopia’s lucrative aid package from the bank into jeopardy. Months later, Agwa translated for a reporter from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on a newsgathering trip to Ethiopia.

Omot AgwaPastor Omot Agwa worked as a translator for the World Bank before his arrest. Image: Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas / WG Films

In February 2015, the Inspection Panel released its report, faulting the bank for failing to properly scrutinize the Ethiopian government’s programs before giving money to the regime. Soon after, Ethiopian government agents began hunting for Agwa, visiting his church, his family and leaving messages on his phone, he told human rights groups.

#éthiopie #peuples_autochtones #BM #discrimination #évictions_forcées #censures #violence_d'état #terres #militer

Exposed: Forced Evictions in Ethiopia and the UK Government Cover up
▻http://www.tesfanews.net/exposed-forced-evictions-in-ethiopia-uk-government-cover-up

The U.K. government tried to suppress evidence of gross human rights abuses in Ethiopia to appease the government there, a new investigation by Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, has revealed.

The key aid donors to Ethiopia, including the U.K.’s DFID, USAID and the European Union, sent two missions to the Lower Omo Valley in the south of the country in August 2014, to investigate whether tribes there were being forced off their land to make way for commercial plantations.

The U.K. authorities refused to release the missions’ reports under the Freedom of Information Act, saying their disclosure would significantly prejudice international relations. But Survival then appealed to the European Commission, which has released them.

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Land Seizures Speeding Up, Leaving Africans Homeless and Landless | Inter Press Service
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There is a new scramble for Africa, with ordinary people facing displacement by the affluent and the powerful as huge tracts of land on the continent are grabbed by a minority, rights activists here say.

“Our forefathers cried foul during colonialism when their land was grabbed by colonialists more than a century ago, but today history repeats itself, with our own political leaders and wealthy countrymen looting land,” Claris Madhuku, director of the Platform for Youth Development (PYD), a democracy lobby group in Zimbabwe, told IPS.

Civil society activist Owen Dliwayo, who is programme officer for the Youth Dialogue Action Network, another lobby group here, said multinational companies were to blame in most African countries for land seizures.

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Leaked report says World Bank violated own rules in Ethiopia
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The World Bank repeatedly violated its own rules while funding a development initiative in Ethiopia that has been dogged by complaints that it sponsored forced evictions of thousands of indigenous people, according to a leaked report by a watchdog panel at the bank.

The report, which was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, examines a health and education initiative that was buoyed by nearly $2 billion in World Bank funding over the last decade. Members of the indigenous Anuak people in Ethiopia’s Gambella province charged that Ethiopian authorities used some of the bank’s money to support a massive forced relocation program and that soldiers beat, raped and killed Anuak who refused to abandon their homes. The bank continued funding the health and education initiative for years after the allegations emerged.

The report by the World Bank’s internal Inspection Panel found that there was an “operational link” between the World Bank-funded program and the Ethiopian government’s relocation push, which was known as “villagization.” By failing to acknowledge this link and take action to protect affected communities, the bank violated its own policies on project appraisal, risk assessment, financial analysis and protection of indigenous peoples, the panel’s report concludes.

“The bank has enabled the forcible transfer of tens of thousands of indigenous people from their ancestral lands,” said David Pred, director of Inclusive Development International, a nonprofit that filed the complaint on behalf of 26 Anuak refugees.

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Thousands displaced by Guatemala’s land grabs
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The Guatemalan government has promised to give land to thousands of people evicted two and a half years ago.

They were forced from their land to make way for sugar and palm oil plantations.

But despite the government offer, hundreds of families remain displaced.

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