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Jakarta, August 16, 2026. Greenpeace Indonesia clarifies findings published in ‘Unprotected Paradise’ report about new nickel mining threats in Raja Ampat, West Papua. Greenpeace has made an error by saying that there are three nickel mining licenses in preparations with operations plan in eastern Waigeo, and one of the companies has also been trying to reinstate a coal mining license in Misool island. In fact, three companies have taken steps to secure mining licenses in Raja Ampat, two for nickel and one for coal. 

We made a mistake when analysing administrative court decisions on two cases filed by PT Eka Kurnia Baru, one of the companies trying to operate mining in Raja Ampat, against the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM). PT EKB filed two lawsuits against Energy Ministry at the same time frame, defending its licenses on two commodities: nickel and coal. 

Our research mentioned that PT EKB won its case on nickel mining, but lost in its coal license lawsuit. We would like to clarify this piece of information as PT EKB won its coal case, but lost in the nickel case. In its coal license case, PT EKB won at the administrative court (PTUN). The higher court and the Supreme Court backed this decision, causing the Energy Ministry losses in its appeal and re-examination requests. 

Meanwhile in the nickel case, PT EKB won the case at the first and higher courts, but lost at the cassation process. It requested a motion to reconsider to the Supreme Court, but the appeal was rejected. We explained the administrative court result, but missed to mention the Supreme Court decision on the re-examination request. 

“We apologize to the public for the error that we made in our report. While it is true that Raja Ampat is still under threats from nickel mining, there was a slight inaccuracy in the details that we outlined. We appreciate the reader who reached out to us after spotting the error, and we hope that this correction reflects our accountability,” said Arie Rompas, Greenpeace Indonesia’s forest campaign team leader.

Greenpeace has uploaded the revised version of the ‘Unprotected Paradise’ report.

Source: Amnesty International –

In light of new revelations regarding the alleged involvement of the United States in attacks on Ecuadorian vessels, including the Fiorella vessel—eight of whose crew members remain missing—Ana Piquer, Americas Director at Amnesty International, said:  

“The U.S. role in this attack is becoming increasingly difficult to deny. U.S. authorities must conduct an impartial investigation into the incident and, if there is sufficient and admissible evidence, establish criminal liability in the case. We must not forget that eight families have been waiting nearly seven months to find out what happened to their loved ones.”  

The U.S. role in this attack is becoming increasingly difficult to deny. U.S. authorities must conduct an impartial investigation into the incident and, if there is sufficient and admissible evidence, establish criminal liability in the case.”  

Ana Piquer, Americas Director at Amnesty International

On August 12, The New York Times published an investigation revealing that a maritime patrol plane, crewed by English-speaking pilots and based at a military facility in El Salvador, flew and followed the Fiorella vessel for four days, including January 20, the day it disappeared. According to the newspaper, the aircraft is not part of the U.S. government’s fleet but was registered to a private company in the state of Virginia, suggesting a possible collaboration between private entities and U.S. authorities in the attack.  

A day later, on August 13, The Washington Post published a report alleging that the attack on the Fiorella vessel had been carried out as part of a covert program by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), with the alleged direct approval of the President of the United States. 

In July, Amnesty International reconstructed the Fiorella’s route using data from the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS), which confirmed that the vessel set sail from the port of Jaramijó on January 13 and transmitted its last signal on January 20, in international waters between the Ecuadorian coast and the Galápagos Islands. Since then, eight of its ten crew members have been missing. 

“The U.S. Congress must continue to push for legislative investigations into this incident and consider the possible involvement of government agencies in collaboration with private entities, given the new evidence available. Likewise, it must continue to demand accountability and transparency regarding all attacks on vessels in the Pacific and the Caribbean over the past year, which have been carried out as part of President Trump’s anti-drug policy. Human rights violations committed as part of these attacks—including more than 200 possible extrajudicial executions—cannot go unpunished,” Piquer said. 

The U.S. Congress must continue to push for legislative investigations into this incident and consider the possible involvement of government agencies in collaboration with private entities, given the new evidence available.”

Ana Piquer, Americas Director at Amnesty International

For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact [email protected] 

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Yaoundé, 21 August 2026 – As Cameroon celebrates the triumph of the Indomitable Lionesses on the African stage, attention must also turn to another national heritage at a crossroads: Ebo Forest and the need to secure the customary land rights of the Banen communities, who have claimed these ancestral territories for generations.

For more than 60 years, Banen communities have been unable to return to their ancestral lands in Ebo Forest after being displaced from their villages in 1963. Yet the historical question of their rights over these lands remains unresolved. And the stakes are becoming increasingly significant. In 2023, the Cameroonian government classified part of Ebo Forest and opened it to industrial logging. Together, the two logging concessions covering Ebo span 133,392 hectares. Logging companies have since obtained harvesting rights within these areas.

For the Banen communities, therefore, the issue is not simply whether trees will be cut down. It is about who has the right to decide the future of their ancestral lands.

Fifteen years of unfinished land reform, while communities’ customary lands continue to be allocated

In 2011, the Cameroonian government launched a reform of the country’s land tenure framework, with the aim, among others, of addressing persistent land governance challenges. Yet fifteen years later, the reform remains unfinished, and customary land rights are still not legally recognised and secured.

The paradox is concerning: while the legal framework intended to better secure land rights is still being developed, forest lands historically occupied or claimed by communities continue to be classified as part of the State’s private domain and allocated to other uses, including industrial logging.

At Ebo, this disconnect is particularly visible. The forest is not an empty space waiting to be allocated. It is an ancestral territory that carries the history, culture, livelihoods and future aspirations of the Banen communities. When these lands are allocated for industrial uses while customary rights remain inadequately secured, communities risk losing not only access to the forest, but also their ability to determine the future of their territory.

“Our land is not simply space on a map. It carries our history, our villages, our sacred places and our livelihoods. We want our customary land rights to be legally recognised and secured. We cannot build a future for our communities if we do not know whether we will still have control over our land tomorrow,” said His Majesty Victor Yetina, Banen Traditional Leader.

When forest loss becomes land loss, protecting forests means protecting rights.

When communities lose the ability to access, manage and protect their ancestral forest, forest loss becomes a loss of control over their land.

“Securing community land rights is not only a matter of justice; it is also a conservation strategy. The work of the IPCC shows that land tenure security is associated with better forest management and reduced deforestation and degradation. At Ebo, recognising and securing the rights of the Banen therefore also means creating the conditions for the long-term protection of the forest,” said Stella Tchoukep, forest and biodiversity campaigner at Greenpeace Africa.

This approach is particularly important in a context where forest governance and natural resource management still need to be strengthened. The World Bank’s 2025 report on Cameroon’s natural capital shows that timber harvesting activities respond to immediate economic needs but generate significantly less value than the ecological services provided by intact forests, particularly their capacity to store carbon.

In other words, preserving a standing forest does not mean giving up its economic value; it means preserving the greater part of that value over the long term. The same report also calls on Cameroon to prioritise intact forest ecosystems with high ecological and economic value.

Greenpeace Africa therefore believes that, in a context where forests remain exposed to significant economic pressures and where their governance still needs to be strengthened, Cameroon cannot continue to prioritise the immediate value derived from exploitation at the expense of the long-term value of its forests.

Forest protection and community land tenure security must therefore be treated as two inseparable dimensions of the same challenge.

A paradox that must end

Fifteen years after the launch of the land reform process, it is difficult to accept that decisions on land allocation continue to be made while the customary rights of communities claiming those lands remain inadequately secured.

“The government cannot ask communities to wait for the completion of the land reform process while continuing to classify and allocate forest lands that they claim as their ancestral territories. Securing land rights must come before decisions that could determine the long-term future of these territories. At Ebo, this paradox must be resolved,” continued Stella Tchoukep.

Turning Ebo’s second chance into lasting protection

Ebo has already demonstrated that decisions about the future of forests can change.

In 2020, strong mobilisation by Banen communities, civil society and other actors helped secure the suspension of plans to open Ebo to logging. That mobilisation demonstrated that another path was possible: protecting the forest while working towards recognition of the rights of communities with ancestral ties to it.

That opportunity still exists.

Greenpeace Africa therefore calls on the Cameroonian government to:

• Cancel the logging concessions allocated in Ebo and freeze the allocation of new concessions in territories where local communities and Indigenous Peoples claim customary land rights, 
• Consider sustainable alternatives to logging, and engage the local communities living around the forest to develop an inclusive land-use plan.
• Accelerate and complete the land reform process launched in 2011, with full recognition and legal protection of customary land rights of Indigenous People and local communities, including rights over traditional forest lands.
• Guarantee meaningful community participation in decisions affecting their territories, including through participatory land-use planning and mapping, a clear legal framework, and respect for Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).

Ebo needs its forest. Its communities need their land.

The communities of Ebo do not simply need their forest to remain standing. They need secure rights to the land that makes their future possible.

Having previously called for Ebo to be given a second chance, Greenpeace Africa is now inviting Cameroonian decision makers, citizens and everyone committed to defending the forests of the Congo Basin to help turn that second chance into real, lasting and rights-based protection.

Media Contact:

Raphael Mavambu, Communication & Storytelling Manager, [email protected], Greenpeace Africa

Stella TCHOUKEP, Forest & Biodiversity campaigner, [email protected], Tél: +237 694 590 679, Greenpeace Africa

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“This dismaying verdict underlines how Hong Kong’s National Security Law is being used to punish people for peacefully remembering one of the darkest chapters in recent Chinese history.

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Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director Sarah Brooks said:

“Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan have not committed any recognizable crime; they have been convicted solely for their role in organizing peaceful commemorations of the people killed by the Chinese authorities on 4 June 1989.

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“Chow Hang-tung and Lee Cheuk-yan are prisoners of conscience who should never have been prosecuted in the first place. They must be released immediately and unconditionally.”

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Authorities and forces affiliated with Hamas in the occupied Gaza Strip must put an end to extrajudicial executions of suspected collaborators with Israel, carried out in the absence of any judicial proceedings, Amnesty International said today. Last month alone, security officials in Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, publicly announced the summary execution of one man for collaborating with Israel and their intention to execute another “informant” within days within the context of what they called a large-scale security campaign.

A June 2026 UN report identified 249 cases of extrajudicial executions and severe physical violence in Gaza between August 2024 and early 2026, at least 60 of which involved Hamas-affiliated forces. Amnesty International has investigated and documented nine extrajudicial executions and unlawful killings by Hamas-affiliated forces committed in the immediate aftermath of the announced ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in October 2025.

While Hamas officials have said that they have opened preliminary internal investigations into the incidents, to Amnesty International’s knowledge none of those responsible for the killings have been held to account to date. In recent weeks, the collapse of law and order in Gaza, and the extreme state of deprivation caused by Israel’s ongoing genocide, has fuelled social tensions including infighting among families.

Nearly three years into Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, the traumatized civilian population has already endured unimaginable suffering and cannot be subjected to further killings, abuses and cruelty.

Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International

“Nearly three years into Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, the traumatized civilian population has already endured unimaginable suffering and cannot be subjected to further killings, abuses and cruelty. The Hamas authorities must immediately halt all unlawful killings, acts of vigilantism and arbitrary arrests. Restoring law and order must never serve as a cover to commit grave human rights violations, carry out reprisals, or to collectively punish entire families,” said Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns.

“Those responsible for ordering and carrying out extrajudicial executions as well as arbitrary arrests, torture and other ill-treatment must be held accountable. Despite its announcement of the dissolution of the governing committee that administers Gaza, Hamas remains fully responsible for preventing serious violations by its agencies and individuals under its control, including Al-Qassam Brigades and the ‘Resistance Security System’. The new leadership of the political bureau of Hamas must break with the long-standing impunity for abuses committed by its forces and its affiliates and take urgent, concrete steps to ensure truth and justice for victims and their families.”

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A recent report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, identified 249 cases of extrajudicial executions and severe physical violence in Gaza between August 2024 and January 2026, resulting in at least 108 deaths. At least 60 of these cases involved Hamas-affiliated forces. Some of these executions were carried out in public and filmed and announced on pages affiliated with Hamas, mainly on Telegram channels.

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Amnesty International shared a summary of its findings with Hamas leadership in November 2025 and sent a follow-up inquiry in July this year. In its November 2025 response, the Hamas authorities stated that they had opened investigations into the incidents, without disclosing more details. No response had been received at the time of publication this year.

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“The reported killing of Mutotwe Kafwaya is deeply alarming. While the full circumstances surrounding his shooting remain unclear, his death follows reports of arbitrary arrests and detentions of opposition members during the electoral period.

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The reported killing of Mutotwe Kafwaya is deeply alarming. While the full circumstances surrounding his shooting remain unclear, his death follows reports of arbitrary arrests and detentions of opposition members during the electoral period.

Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa

“The authorities have alleged that those arrested in Kabulonga were involved in an insurrection plot and that military-grade weapons were recovered during the operation. Such allegations must be thoroughly and transparently investigated. However, regardless of the allegations, the authorities remain bound by Zambia’s Constitution and international human rights law to protect the rights to life, liberty and a fair trial.

The Zambian authorities must promptly, thoroughly, independently, impartially, transparently and effectively investigate Mutotwe Kafwaya’s death.

Tigere Chagutah

“Amnesty International calls on the authorities to ensure that all detainees have immediate access to lawyers and their families and any necessary medical care. The detainees must be promptly brought before an independent and impartial court and informed of any recognizable criminal charges against them. Anyone detained without sufficient evidence of recognizable criminal offences must be released.

The authorities must immediately end arbitrary arrests and detentions of opposition members and the growing crackdown on peaceful dissent. The authorities must also ensure that Kafwaya’s family receives full information about the circumstances of his death.

Background

In the lead-up to and aftermath of Zambia’s 2026 general election on 13 August, authorities carried out a series of arrests targeting opposition members, campaign officials, artists, media personalities, and supporters of the opposition National Revolutionary Party–United Party (NRPUP). On 14 August, security forces raided a property linked to opposition presidential candidate Brian Mundubile in Kabulonga, Lusaka. During the operation, members of the main opposition NRPUP George Chisanga, Bishop Trevor Mwamba, and Patrick Mwansa were arrested, while former cabinet minister Mutotwe Kafwaya was reportedly fatally shot. His family was kept in the dark about his condition and whereabouts until 19 August.

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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the decision by the Israeli Military Advocate General (MAG) to close, without opening a criminal investigation, the cases MSF itself submitted for review: the multiple attacks on an MSF convoy in Gaza City, Palestine, in November 2023 that killed two, and the February 2024 strike on an MSF shelter in Khan Younis that killed two and injured six.

Unfortunately, this does not come as a surprise. These responses come nearly two years after MSF’s request was submitted, which was followed by a submission to the Israeli High Court of Justice challenging the MAG’s failure to provide any answer to our formal requests.

This is not justice. Two years of silence, followed by closures that raise more questions than they answer, is unacceptable. However, it is the predictable output of a military apparatus investigating itself: a system which has demonstrated itself unwilling to respond to the extent of violations that may amount to war crimes emerging from Gaza.

MSF staff and their family members are dead. Their names are known. Their locations were shared. Their vehicles were identified. We have always maintained that all elements point to a clear responsibility of the Israeli army for the deadly attacks. And yet, those responsible for their deaths have declined to pursue any criminal investigation.

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MSF reaffirms what we have stated since the beginning of this violence: there is no military objective that justifies the wholesale sacrifice of civilians. And there is no internal military review that can substitute for genuine, independent, and impartial accountability.

We demand that the cases involving our colleagues be reviewed by an impartial investigative body.

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The prize is presented to ‘the person, persons, or organization deemed to have made the most significant contribution to the improvement of international relations’.

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‘The women of Afghanistan have shown extraordinary courage and resilience in the face of systematic efforts to exclude them from education, work and public life.

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