The rapid financialization of nature is promoting a Great Expropriation of the global commons and the dispossession of humanity on an unprecedented scale.
The Sabah state government in Malaysia should immediately make public the terms and status of a land deal that would hand management of 4.9 million acres of tropical forest to a foreign company for up to 200 years.
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Human Rights Watch is conducting research into the impact of the Nature Conservation Agreement (NCA) in Malaysia entered into between Hoch Standard PTE Ltd. (“Hoch Standard”) and the government of the state of Sabah on Indigenous communities in Sabah and whether affected communities were properly consulted prior to signing the agreement. We would value an opportunity to include information from the Sabah state government to clarify some issues in our research. We have several questions that we hope your office can answer to help ensure the accuracy of our reporting.