State pension money invested in ‘questionable’ Congo palm oil company
by Bobby Jordan
The South African Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) is invested in a Congolese palm oil business linked to past human rights abuses and land expropriation.
The Public Investment Corporation (PIC) has confirmed that pension funds are being indirectly invested in Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC). The funds are ploughed in via a US investment company, Kuramo Capital Management, PHC’s majority stakeholder. PHC’s previous owners include British multinational consumer goods company Unilever and Canadian company Feronia. Kuramo acquired a majority stake in PHC late last year.
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New Oakland Institute report: Sri Lanka is an ‘ethnocratic state’, should be referred to Int l Criminal Court (ICC)
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Endless War: The Destroyed Land, Life, and Identity of the Tamils in Sri Lanka The report is titled Endless War: The Destroyed Land, Life, and Identity of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Military occupation of the traditional Tamil land is extreme – with a ratio of one soldier for every six civilians in the Northern Province & one soldier for two civilians in the Mullaithivu District” Oakland InstituteNEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, March 16, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ From being a former colony of the British Empire to becoming a harsh colonial regime itself the story of modern day Sri Lanka is one rich in irony and lots of innocent blood.
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Hold Public Hearing on Colonisation of Indigenous Lands in Nicaragua
On March 18, 2021, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hold a public hearing on the impacts of the colonisation of Indigenous lands on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua at its 179th Period of Sessions.
In 2020 alone, at least 13 Indigenous rights defenders were killed, eight people injured, two people kidnapped, and one community forcibly displaced in the Indigenous territories of the Bosawás Biosphere Reserve in northeastern Nicaragua, as part of ongoing violent colonisation of the region.
The public hearing comes after months of growing international pressure on the Nicaraguan government and the private sector to take concrete action against the invasion of Indigenous and Afrodescendant lands on the Caribbean coast.