European Union agrees to investigate Cambodian sugar industry
The European Union has agreed to investigate forced displacement claims in relation to Cambodia’s troubled sugar industry. The move could see thousands of villagers compensated for illegally confiscated land and loss of earnings. The Clean Sugar Campaign – which has been calling on the EU to investigate its trade ties with Cambodia’s sugar industry since 2011 – called the development “a pivotal step towards justice for thousands of Cambodian people who have suffered enormously at the hands of the sugar industry”. …
Kate Hodal
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/10/european-union-cambodia-sugar-industry-human-rights
