Rapport de la conférence "Accaparement des terres en Afrique francophone"

Du 21 au 23 novembre, à Abidjan, au centre CERAO, s’est tenue une conférence intitulée : Accaparement des terres en Afrique francophone : Identifier et promouvoir des solutions endogènes pour s’en sortir. Elle fait suite à une conférence organisée par la plateforme "Our land is our life" une collaboration entre des organisations de la société civile (OSC) et l’Eglise.

Déclaration de la conférence d'Abidjan

« Accaparement des terres en Afrique francophone : identifier et promouvoir les solutions endogènes pour s’en sortir », Déclaration de la « Conférence Régionale Afrique Francophone ». Abidjan, 21-23 Novembre 2017

« Dieu créa les cieux et la terre. Le Seigneur Dieu prit l’homme et le plaça dans le jardin d’Eden pour le cultiver et le garder » (Gn1,1 ;2,15)

Press release: EU-Myanmar Investment Protection Agreement: Many risks, few benefits

The EU-Myanmar Investment Protection Agreement (IPA) could have serious consequences for the country’s already grave human rights situation, warn organisations and networks in the EU, Myanmar and ASEAN (1). The IPA’s risks have been seriously underestimated and its benefits overstated, with dangerous implications for Myanmar’s peace efforts, human rights, and democratic development, according to the report Myths and risks of the EU-Myanmar Investment Protection Agreement (2).

President of the CCCB asks Prime Minister Trudeau for an ombudsperson for the Canadian extractives sector

On 9th August 2017, the President of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops sent a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to express concern over the environmental degradation and human rights violations caused by Canadian extractive companies operating on Indigenous lands in Latin America.

CIDSE Annual Report 2016

Annual Report 2016 (also available in ES and FR)

Human Rights in Trade and Investment Policies

The potential of a UN Treaty on transnational corporations and other businesses - CIDSE Recommendations. April 2017

Last hurdle overcome for landmark French legislation on corporate duty of vigilance

French Corporate duty of vigilance law gets green light from Constitutional Council

The Europe We Want: Just, Sustainable, Democratic and Inclusive

Common appeal to European leaders by European Civil Society Organisations and Trade Unions (Available in EN-ES-FR)

New legislation on conflict minerals, a missed opportunity for the European Union

On Thursday, the European Parliament will vote on the law on the responsible sourcing of minerals, a regulation aimed at ensuring that revenues from minerals imported into the European Union do not finance infringements of Human Rights and armed conflicts around the world. Civil society organizations have already highlighted that the long-debated final text is less ambitious than the one initially proposed by the Parliament.

CSO statement in support of the French corporate duty of vigilance law

Joint international Civil Society Statement, 14 March 2017 (Available in EN/FR)