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Stop Oil Exploration in Africa's Oldest National Park
Q) When are conservationists and asset managers ever on the same side? A) More often than you’d think For some, the announcement on 11 June 2014 that SOCO International, a UK-listed oil and gas company, would not drill in the Virunga National Park – a designated world heritage site in the Democratic Republic of Congo… Read More
Oil drilling may bring benefits in healthcare and education, but critics are concerned about corruption and the effect on wildlife Patience Akumu Most of Uganda’s oil is in the Albertine Graben region in the west of the country, an expanse of lush green vegetation that is home to about half of Africa’s bird species. There… Read More
Citing environmental concerns, central Colombian villages use months of direct action to delay planned state oil project. OSCAR LEÓN, TRNN PRODUCER: In the central Colombian region of Meta, communities won an important victory in the fight to preserve their lands from possible contamination from drilling by Ecopetrol, Colombia’s national oil company. The Meta region’s administrative… Read More
What does nature provide for your business? Find out more: http://www.pitchfornature.org This video is available in many languages. Click the “Captions” button to find yours! Natural Capital is the value of nature. It can be defined as the world’s stocks of natural assets that we benefit from. Natural Capital matters because every single business in… Read More
Sudan: Oil and Rights Abuses #Lessons #DRC #Oil #Virunga #Conflict #OilCompanies #Ethnicity #Civilians #victims #IDPs ….. (Reposted from sources cited below – Year 2003) Editor’s Note While diplomats say there are good chances of achieving a peace settlement in Sudan by the end of the year, fighting nevertheless continues in western Sudan, and the United… Read More
The African Association for the Defence of Human Rights, ASADHO denounces the manipulation of the Congolese justice system by the oil company SOCO EP-RDC SARL in the case between the company and its former employees BOGOLI BOKELAKELA Olivier, Georges LUBUNGU NGATSHU and Gustave Ngalamulùme BANTU that were unlawfully dismissed from their duties. COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE… Read More
“Dialogue Congolais”: Intimidating behavior on the part of the SOCO-ICCN coalition #1 Source: On Behalf of IDPE
Corporate respect for human rights: Sustainability’s new black? Human rights used to be seen as a government issue, but with new UN standards, how can corporate support be sustained? The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights means that companies have a responsibility to avoid human rights abuses resulting from their own activites or… Read More
Extract from Amnesty International’s last report on Mining and Human Rights in Katanga. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has some of the world’s most important mineral reserves. For more than a decade the extraction of these resources has been linked to conflict, human rights abuses and corruption. In the southern province of Katanga, people’s… Read More
Local engagement program of SOCO International targeting the fisheries of Lake Edward: some individuals of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) identified, local populations taken hostage. Local civil society organizations working on conservation and protection of the Environment and Human Rights (CREF Network CREDDHO, IDPE, SOPR) condemn in the strongest manner… Read More
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