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      Palm Oil work in Papua New Guinea

      Financial Titans, Top Brands Implicated in Probe of 'Devastating' Palm Oil Industry Abuses

      "Papua New Guinean communities… are being sold out by their own government and global financial institutions in favor of a small number of highly destructive companies."

      Jessica Corbett
      Oct 08, 2021

      From the use of child labor and beatings of locals to the destruction of "climate-critical rainforest," an investigative report published Thursday exposes how the abuse of people and the planet by Papua New Guinea's palm oil sector has direct ties to global financiers and major household brands.

      "It is increasingly urgent that governments legislate to prevent supply chains and global financiers bankrolling deforestation and human rights abuses."

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      Remembering Colombian Land Defender Hernan Bedoya

      Remembering Colombian Land Defender Hernan Bedoya

      "A year before he died, Hernán warned the palm oil companies planned to plant another 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres), which would be impossible unless he and more than a dozen other campesinos were dispossessed."

      Brent Patterson
      Aug 19, 2019

      The United Nations has highlighted that human rights defenders play an important role in helping to avert further climate breakdown.

      The Global Climate Strike on September 20 and September 27 is an opportunity for people around the world concerned by climate change to acknowledge that role and the risks land and environmental defenders face.

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      Dear Democrats: We Owe Migrants More Than "Decriminalization"

      Dear Democrats: We Owe Migrants More Than "Decriminalization"

      U.S. policies have created the disasters from which they are fleeing.

      Timothy A. Wise
      Jul 30, 2019

      Like many citizens of the United States, I was pleased to hear the consensus condemnation of President Trump's punitive migration policies from Democratic presidential candidates during the last debate. Granted, It does not take much courage to condemn "holding children in cages." Still, it was heartening to hear support for "decriminalizing" migration. That would certainly be an improvement over the abusive policies now prevailing on the border.

      But granting that many migrants at our southern border are not criminals falls far short of recognizing the complicity of our government in creating the multiple crises Central Americans and Mexicans are fleeing. We have a responsibility to those migrants for violations of their civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, because the U.S. government is significantly responsible for those violations.

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