land-grabs

Farmers and fisherfolk have been forced off their land in Sri Lanka to make way for luxury hotels. Since Rathnamali, her family and other members of her community were evicted from their land six years ago, they have faced hardship and poverty. Read her story and take action.

Today MEPs voted to introduce a seven percent cap on food-based biofuels and to include carbon emissions from land use change in environmental assessments.

The International Finance Corporation has little accountability for billions of dollars’ worth of investments into banks, hedge funds and other financial intermediaries, resulting in projects that are causing human rights abuses around the world.