World Bank, get out of land!
23-4-2012
'Land governance in a rapidly changing environment' is the theme of the 2012 World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty being held April 23-26 in Washington DC. Corporate investors, governments and International Financial Institutions are meeting at World Bank headquarters to "discuss issues of concern to land practitioners and policymakers worldwide". While they devise ways to help corporations acquire land around the world, people on the ground are suffering from the corporate-friendly land policies and laws promoted by the World Bank and its allies.
Land grabbing breaches international human rights law
17-4-2012
On the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle, FIAN joins millions of food producers in their struggle against land and resource grabbing. In November 2011, food producers from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe created a Global Alliance against Land Grabbing in Nyéléni, Mali, and called for a global mobilisation against land grabbing this April 17.
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