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Despite Land Loss, Minorities Back Status Quo
- 15 July 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Romam Gvin could be described as a counterintuitive voter. Intuition might lead you to believe that Mr. Gvin blames the government for the loss of his land to the Vietnamese rubber company that now owns everything for as far as the eye can see here in ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/despite-land-loss-minorities-back-status-quo-34786/
In Mondolkiri, Political Candidates Address Ethnic Minority Concerns
- 20 June 2013
- VOA Khmer
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Human rights workers and other civil society groups on Wednesday urged the competing political parties for July’s election to address the ongoing land crises and illegal deforestation that are hurting indigenous populations. About 100 people from various ethnic minority groups from five provinces attended a forum ...
Call for Oversight of Cambodian Land Campaign
- 12 June 2013
- Radio Free Asia
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A land titling campaign in Cambodia launched and financed by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s lacks transparency and could leave thousands of people landless, a human rights group said Wednesday, urging the country’s donors to push for reform of the program. The campaign, which employs volunteer youth ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/land-06122013150317.html
CNRP Lawmaker Visits Controversial Plantation
- 22 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Opposition lawmaker Son Chhay said yesterday that he would ask the government to cancel the land concession of a Vietnamese rubber firm in Ratanakkiri province he accused of logging and exporting wood illegally. Mr. Chay, a candidate in July’s national election for the Cambodia National Rescue ...
Non-Government Groups Take Stock of the Country’s Rights Records
- 1 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Land / Social development / Unions
- ancestral rights / ethnic Kuoy minority / ethnic minorities / forced evictions / Human Rights / Human Rights Council / Hun Sen / indigenous peoples rights / Land rights / Land-grabbing / nationwide land-titling project / Phnom Penh / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Royal Government of Cambodia Human rights Committee / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / U.N. Human Rights Council / U.N. Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review / U.N. human rights recommendations
The government’s abuse of land rights and indigenous minorities were among the top concerns raised Tuesday by non-governmental groups at a workshop in Phnom Penh on Cambodia’s progress toward achieving a long list of U.N. human rights recommendations. As part of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/non-government-groups-take-stock-of-countrys-rights-record-21113/
Rubber Firm Accused of Illegal Deforestation
- 26 April 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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A rubber company that has been repeatedly accused of encroaching on communal land belonging to an ethnic minority in Ratanakkiri province has cleared 150 hectares of forest outside of its economic land concession (ELC) in the past month, according to the senior investigator for local ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rubber-firm-accused-of-illegal-deforestation-20367/
Land-Titling Project Denied Minorities of Property Rights
- 23 April 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Hundreds of indigenous minorities in Ratanakkiri province are being made worse off by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s land-titling scheme which, rather than securing their property rights, is contributing to the loss of their ancestral lands, according to a new report. The report supports complaints aired since ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/land-titling-project-denied-minorities-of-property-rights-19528/
