Listen to an interview with Global Response Program Manager Danielle DeLuca on the air Friday May 3rd at Radio CKUW of Winnepeg, Canada. On Scott Price’s international news program ‘Warning Shots’ Danielle spoke about land grabbing in
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 Date: May 7, 2013
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 Date: April 10, 2013
Karuturi Global Ltd, an India-based agricultural company and the world’s largest rose grower, has stated that i |
 Date: February 11, 2013
The Ethiopian government has committed egregious human rights abuses to make way for agricultural land investments, in direct violation of international law, said the Oakland Institute in a new briefing paper released in New Delhi today. The briefing paper, entitled "Unheard Voices: The Human Rights Impact of Land Investments on Indigenous Communities in Gambella,” calls on Ethiopia to put an end to the illegal forced evictions of indigenous peoples in areas targeted for land investment. |
 Date: December 7, 2012
Karuturi Global Ltd, a company responsible for brutal landgrabbing in Gambella, Ethiopia, announced their quarterly results, showing continuing erosion in its core operations. |
 Date: September 28, 2012
On September 22nd, Ethiopia’s new prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn was sworn into office, one month after the death of former prime minister Meles Zenawi, who had ruled the country for over two decades. |
 Date: September 10, 2012
An Ethiopian farmer could sue the British government after being evicted violently from his home as part of a villagization project that receives f |
 Date: June 13, 2012
In April of 2008, Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, an Indian businessman, was in Ethiopia, doubting that his proposed deal for 100,000 hectares of farming land would go through. |
 Date: May 21, 2012
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi met with President Obama and the other G8 members along with three other African leaders on May 19th to discuss food security on the African continent. On Friday, Obama pledged $3 billion in priva |
 Date: May 10, 2012
Attacks on the Saudi-owned rice plantation in southwestern Ethiopia left five people dead on April 28, 2012, including one Pakistani worker and four Ethiopians, with at least another eight people injured. |
 Date: April 24, 2012
The UN has drafted a set of voluntary guidelines that encourage countries to limit the size and duration of agricultural land deals made with foreign companies, deals that have become known as ‘land grabs.’ The document is set to be ra |
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Date: April 11, 2012
Anuak refugees from Ethiopia are reporting mobilization of national military and police forces in the Gambella region, and increasing violence there. |
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Date: March 23, 2012
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Agriculture announced that it has temporarily suspended all land allocations in the country to take time for assessment. |
 Date: February 29, 2012
The Public Broadcasting Network aired a Center for Investigative Reporting video during the PBS Newshour on February 28. The video is episode 3, “A Land Grab in Ethiopia,” of a series called Food for Nine Billion. |
 Date: February 28, 2012
A poem by Warajor Ojulu.
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 Date: February 24, 2012
The BBC World Service is hosting a series of debates on the topic, "Is 'land-grabbing' good for Africa?" The debates are taking place within Africa, with participation from local communities who are experiencing the impacts of foreign |
 Date: February 23, 2012
The Ethiopian government has come under criticism due to its use of anti-terrorism laws to incarcerate journalists critical of their administration. |
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Date: May 26, 2010
Mursi, Suri, Nyangatom, Dizi and Me'en have managed the biodiversity in Ethiopia's Omo area for centuries. Is it wise to push them aside in the name of conservation? |
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Date: May 26, 2010
When compared to the Americas, African practice on indigenous rights protection is unguided by law. |
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Date: May 7, 2010
Within the next year, the Mursi could face government removal from their traditional lands in Ethiopia to make way for a privately managed park. Through a verbal agreement, the Ethiopian government and African Parks Foundation, a private nonprofit organization based in the Netherlands, will assume management of Omo and Mago National Parks. National parks have existed on Mursi land for over 30 years, but the Mursi have been left alone and most do not know their land is part of a national park. Encompassing more than 2,400 square miles, the parks are home to approximat |
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Date: May 7, 2010
Some 400 members of the Anuak ethnic group in Gambella in southern Ethiopia were killed on December 13, 2003, by government security forces and members of highland ethnic groups. The assault followed the deaths of eight Ethiopian and foreign refugee workers traveling in a United Nations vehicle. |
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