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Coca-Cola auditors visit sugar suppliers
- 27 February 2014
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Civil society / Crop products and commodities / Economic policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Human rights / Industries / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development
- ANZ Bank / ANZ Royal / Arche Advisors / Coca-Cola Company / Eang Vuthy / Equitable Cambodia / Grant Knuckey / Ly Yong Phat / Mitr Phol / Phnom Penh Sugar Company / Tate & Lyle Sugars / Thailand
Third-party auditors hired by The Coca-Cola Company are conducting an audit of Cambodian sugar suppliers, NGO and community representatives said yesterday. “Coke has commissioned them to conduct an assessment on their suppliers. They will talk to all parties, the community, NGOs and the company,” said Eang ...
Kevin Ponniah and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/coca-cola-auditors-visit-sugar-suppliers
Coca-Cola To Probe Seven-Year-Old Cambodian Land Grab Case
- 9 November 2013
- Eurasia Reveiw
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Declaring that it has “zero tolerance” towards land grabbing, Coca-Cola has agreed to investigate a long running case in Cambodia where villagers are seeking court action against a company accused of seizing their land to make way for plantations linked to the supply of sugar ...
Eurasia Review News Staff
http://www.eurasiareview.com/09112013-coca-cola-probe-seven-year-old-cambodian-land-grab-case/
Oxfam accuses Coke and Pepsi of taking land from the poor
- 2 October 2013
- The Independent
- Agricultural commodities, processing and products / Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development / Sugar / Trade / Trade policy and regulation
- ABF / Coca-Cola / KSL / Oxfam / PepsiCo / Tate & Lyle / Tate & Lyle Sugars
Land covering an area the size of Italy has been taken from indigenous communities around the world by suppliers to the biggest names in the food and drinks industry, according to a major new report. Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are among the companies criticised by Oxfam for ...
Jamie Merrill
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/oxfam-accuses-coke-and-pepsi-of-taking-land-from-the-poor-8852161.html
The canes of wrath
- 10 May 2013
- Southeast Asia Globe
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Satiating the demands of the global sugar industry is big business for Cambodia’s sugarcane plantations. Yet accusations of human rights abuses and land grabs in the Kingdom have left a bitter aftertaste for many on the ground as companies vie for a larger slice of ...
Farmers Sue UK Sugar Firm For Millions
- 12 April 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Sugar / Trade
- American Sugar / American Sugar Holdings / Community Legal Education Center / economic land concession / ELC / Jones Day / Khon Kaen Sugar / Koh Kong Province / Land rights / murder / Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development / plantation / refineries / rice paddies / sugar cane / Tate & Lyle / Tate & Lyle PLC / Tate & Lyle Sugars / U.K’s High Court of Justice / U.S. National Contact Point / UK / Washington
Hundreds of Cambodian families are suing the British sugar firm Tate & Lyle in one of the U.K’s highest courts over a pair of plantations in Koh Kong province they accuse of violently forcing them off their land and out of their homes. The British law ...
