Asset stripping is the practice of
investors[?] dealing directly with
armed militant[?] groups in
developing nations to take direct control of
assets that legally belong to the
state or
commons or any group in society that the investor and armed militant can effectively coerce. It has led to
deforestation in
Africa and
Colombia and other harmful effects.
Jim Friedman[?] on a United Nations panel on exploitation of natural resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo, listed this as one of several key concerns in "Investment and human rights[?]".