Today, ICAR, in partnership with Oxfam America and Global Witness, is pleased to release its “Tainted Lands: Land, Corruption, and Human Rights” Project, under the expert leadership of Professor Olivier De Shutter.

The Project will examine the question of “tainted lands”: land that has been obtained by corrupt means by an investor, whether that investor itself has bribed public officials or community leaders in charge of allocating land on behalf of communities, or whether it has not ensured that the land was acquired by the seller through means that are legal and transparent, i.e., untainted by corruption. It will include a discussion of corruption of judicial officials, insofar as such corruption may affect access to remedies for victims of illicit land acquisitions...