{"id":2594,"date":"2019-01-10T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T09:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2020-04-30T12:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T10:00:37","slug":"the-sabl-land-grab-papua-new-guineas-ongoing-human-rights-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/?p=2594&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"THE SABL LAND GRAB &#8211; Papua New Guinea\u2019s ongoing human rights scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Special Agricultural Business Leases (SABL) are\u00a0being used by foreign companies to unlawfully\u00a0occupy community-owned land in Papua New\u00a0Guinea (PNG).<br \/>\nThis is despite the leases\u00a0being\u00a0declared unlawful and universally discredited.\u00a0This is happening with the connivance and support\u00a0of PNG\u2019s politicians and public servants. The\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">foreign\u00a0companies have been able to abus the law\u00a0to illegally lease land and grab forest resources\u00a0from customary landowners \u2014 without their legally\u00a0required consent, and often without any prior\u00a0warning.\u00a0<\/span>As a result of this state-sanctioned land grab,\u00a0hundreds of thousands of people, most living in\u00a0remote rural communities, have seen their traditional\u00a0subsistence lifestyle<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">s and environment\u00a0destroyed and are suffering a wide-range of\u00a0serious and on-going human rights abuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/The-SABL-land-grab-web.pdf\">Download: The SABL Land Grab<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Agricultural Business Leases (SABL) are\u00a0being used by foreign companies to unlawfully\u00a0occupy community-owned land in Papua New\u00a0Guinea (PNG). This is despite the leases\u00a0being\u00a0declared unlawful and universally discredited.\u00a0This is happening with the connivance and support\u00a0of PNG\u2019s politicians and public servants. The\u00a0foreign\u00a0companies have been able to abus the law\u00a0to illegally lease land and grab forest resources\u00a0from customary &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[68,65],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ozeanien-dialog.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}