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Sugar firm under fire

3 June 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / The poor / Trade
Angkor Sugar / Asia / blood sugar / child labour / Chongkal district / duty-free trade preferences / Eang Vuthy / ELC / Equitable Cambodia / EU / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / Food insecurity / force eviction / Human Rights / human rights abuses / Kampong Speu Province / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / KSL / Land concession / land conflict / Land dispute / land eviction / Land Law / LICADHO / Ly Yong Phat / Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation / O’Bat Moun / Oddar Meanchey Province / Phnom Penh Sugar Company / Senator Ly Yong Phat / social impact assessments / Somrang district / sugar / sugar cane-planting concessionaires / Sugar company / sugar concession / sugar plantations / Tate and Lyle / Thai conglomerate / Thai human rights body / Thai national human rights commission / Thai sugar manufacturer KSL / Thailand / Tonle Sugar Cane / trade preferences

Asia’s largest sugar company has been accused of torching hundreds of homes, orchestrating the imprisonment of a pregnant activist and using security forces to beat villagers – among a raft of other grave human rights abuses – by communities in Oddar Meanchey province. The allegations levelled ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366024/National/sugar-firm-under-fire.html

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