By Detmer Kremer

Herakles Farms’  land lease is up for renewal next month. Tell the President of Cameroon to respect community lands and biodiverse forests and reject the 99-year lease renewal for a palm oil plantation.

On January 18, 2016, Niger’s human rights record was reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of the  second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. This mechanism emerged from the 2005 UN reform process and periodically examines the human rights performance of all 193 UN Member States. It is intended to complement the work of other human rights mechanisms, including the UN human rights treaty bodies.

On January 25, 2016, the Solomon Islands’ human rights record was reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. This mechanism emerged from the 2005 UN reform process and periodically examines the human rights performance of all 193 UN Member States.

On November 4, 2015, Nepal’s human rights record was reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of the second cycle of the

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Tribes Lose Dakota Access Pipeline Decision – Win on Federal Front

New evidence uncovered by the Oakland Institute shows that the US government may have played a role in Cameroon's extending a concession to American palm oil company Herakles Farms in 2013. 

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By Tracy Barnett for Intercontinental Cry

A contingent of at least 1,000 Indigenous Wixárika (Huichol) people in the Western Sierra Madre are gearing up to take back their lands after a legal decision in a decade-long land dispute with neighboring ranchers who have held the land for more than a century.

By Detmer Yens Kremer