Tanzania: Threats to Maasai Lands
Increasing threats to Maasai lands raise concerns of a systematic landgrab from indigenous pastoral peoples.
113 Groups Tell TIAA to Divest from Fossil Fuels and Stop Land Grabs
In a letter laying out six demands, the groups reject TIAA’s promise to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as “greenwashing” and tell TIAA to fully divest from fossil fuels by 2025, and to immediately stop its acquisitions of farmland.
Francophone Africa: Solving land grabbing
The following article is adapted from a report by CIDSE, an international alliance of Catholic social justice organizations based in Brussels. The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns is a member of CIDSE.
Brazil: TIAA-CREF and Land Grabbing
In November, a report was presented by the Social Network for Justice and Human Rights, a human rights organization in Brazil, and GRAIN, a food sovereignty NGO, about land grabbing in Brazil by TIAA-CREF, at the International Seminar on Land Grabbing, at City University of New York Graduate Center.
Africa: Conference on land grabbing
Just prior to the arrival of Pope Francis for his first pastoral visit to Kenya, a network of Catholic justice and peace organizations met in Limura, Kenya, for a major conference on land grabbing and just governance in Africa.
Haiti: Challenges of reconstruction
The following article was prepared by Chris Smith, a Maryknoll Affiliate who is volunteering with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, and was published in the March-April 2015 NewsNotes.