Property rights threatened, NGOs claim

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ច្បាប់ស្តីពីដីកសិកម្ម / agricultural land leases / coalition / criminal sanctions / draft / FAO / jail / ច្បាប់ភូមិបាល / law / property rights / society groups / The Law on the Management and Use of Agricultural Land / UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization

A draft agricultural land law threatens to eliminate property rights and effectively remove all limitations on the size of economic land concessions, a coalition of civil society groups said in a statement released.

The draft of The Law on the Management and Use of Agricultural Land, which was formulated with the help of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, also contains criminal sanctions that impose jail terms of up to one year.

The FAO has said that controversial agricultural land leases that had no apparent limitations in size had been removed from a new draft formulated in April, but yesterday declined to provide an updated copy of the law, which the government has also so far declined to circulate. ...

 David Boyle and May Titthara, P. 1
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