Oil palm plantation and rubber estate workers today gathered in Parliament angry at Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Bernard Dompok’s statement that they were above the poverty line.
“It is a blatant lie and it has been going on for a long time… the fact is misleading and confusing,” slammed M Sugumaran, a coordinator for the [...]

Tata, the transnational Indian conglomerate which makes the world famous Tetley teas, has taken 6,500 people hostage through hunger. The hostages are nearly 1,000 tea plantation workers and their families on the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal, India. Permanently living on the edge of hunger, the workers and their dependants are being pushed [...]

By Asia Pacific  Forum on Women, Law and Development
Experiences of Women Protecting their Communities and Human Rights Against Corporate Mining is a product of the Food Over Gold campaign launched in 2005 as part of APWLD’s food sovereignty programme. The book contains the results of mining fact-finding missions, fora where the issue of women and [...]