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The Plight Of PNG's Oil Palm Workers

On 09 Sep, 2019 By ACTNOW

Source: Sarawak Report - 8 September 2019

New Study Reveals Dangers Inherent in Land Registration

On 22 Jul, 2018 By ACTNOW

Photo: New oil palm planting and processing mill in Pomio District, ENBP

Customary land registration processes can easily be captured by local ‘big men’ and companies with disastrous consequences for local people. This is the conclusion drawn in a study on recent oil palm expansion in Papua New Guinea by academic Caroline Hambloch from the University of London.

MP wins court order against logging and oil palm

On 15 May, 2018 By ACTNOW

Hon. Jelta Wong MP via FaceBook

Court Order against Bruno Niu Wirka, Lamus Incorporated Land Group & Tzen Niugini Limited successful; restrained from conducting any eviction, destruction of property, Oil Palm planting whatsoever in Portion 910C Millinch Pondo, Fourmil Rabaul ENB.

Tzen Nuigini Limited remove all its machines and employees from the above stated portion / Millinch

The Protection of the Customary Rights of the Sausso People

On 04 May, 2018 By ACTNOW

OUR LAND

Land was entrusted to us by our ancestors for our use and to be kept in trust for the use of countless millions yet to be born

OUR FUTURE

We will leave behind legacies. When your grandsons and the future generations think of us, they will always remember us not as idiots, but as legendary Sausso nien.

PNG Farmers Fight Back Against Foreign Land Grab

On 31 Oct, 2017 By ACTNOW

By D. Amari Jackson - Atlanta Black Star

ACT NOW! in SABL call to new Ministers

On 09 Aug, 2017 By ACTNOW

New Ministers called on to confirm SABLs cancelled, logging stopped and police withdrawn

ACT NOW! is calling on the newly sworn in Minister for Forests, Douglas Tomuriesa, the new Minister for Lands, Justin Tkatchenko, and new Police Minister, Jelta Wong, to confirm the cancellation of all SABL leases.

Rimbunan Hijau tells communities human rights impede their development

On 20 Sep, 2016 By ACTNOW

RH Consultant and ex Managing Director of the PNG Forest Authority, Kanawi Pouru, addresses villagers in the Pomio district

SABL Story Project*

PNG’s largest logging company and multi-sector business group is telling rural communities that human rights and sustainable business principles impede rural development and should be ignored if people want to get rich.

Dirty SABL Palm Oil to hit the International Market

On 06 Sep, 2016 By ACTNOW

The oil palm mill at Dirina in Pomio

SABL Story Project*

Who would think that a responsible government, whose income is dependent on tax revenue would allow one of our major export crop to be smeared with more dirt?

Bainings win SABL court battle

On 30 Aug, 2016 By ACTNOW

Source: Isaac Nicholas, Post Courier

LANDOWNERS in East New Britain Province have won a landmark legal battle to retake their “hijacked” land from the controversial Special Agriculture and Business Lease (SABL).

The people of Baining in Gazelle district had taken the State and developer to court over the SABL deal which has now been declared null and void by the National Court in Kokopo last Thursday.

Second largest palm oil producer in Indonesia commits to zero deforestation

On 02 Oct, 2015 By ACTNOW

Another major player in the Indonesian palm oil industry has adopted a zero deforestation policy; now it's time for the government of Indonesia [and Papua New Guinea] to catch up.

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