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EU Under Fire for Policy Linked to Land Grabbing in Cambodia
- 18 September 2013
- The Irrawaddy Magazine
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KAMPONG SPEU PROVINCE— Three years ago, Pao had a farm and a charcoal stove near a stream in a community called Omlaing in western Cambodia. The farm gave her rice, charcoal sales gave her extra income and the nearby forest provided edible and medicinal plants. Pao ...
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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 ...
Thai Representative Meets With Koh Kong ‘Blood Sugar’ Families
- 28 February 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Some 200 Koh Kong farmers locked in a long-running land dispute with two sugar plantations met Tuesday with a representative of the Thailand-based owners for the first time since the land dispute began in 2006. Khamrom Phochai, a Thai national and representative of Thailand’s Khon Kaen ...
Thai Rights Commission to Publish Report on Sugar Plantations
- 12 December 2012
- The Cambodia Daily
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A final report from Thailand’s human rights commission on the alleged rights violations of a Thai company involved in two Cambodian sugar plantations is expected by late January, a member of the commission said. In July, the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand said its investigation ...
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