Cambodia

Cambodians in Paris to hold Bolloré to account
- Mediapart
- 01 October 2019
Eighty indigenous farmers are suing the Bolloré group and its subsidiaries for having grabbed their ancestral lands
Des Cambodgiens poursuivent le groupe Bolloré pour avoir détruit leur forêt sacrée
- Le Monde
- 01 October 2019
Quatre-vingts paysans Bunongs estiment avoir été spoliés de leur forêt ancestrale, remplacée par des plantations d’hévéas. Une audience a eu lieu mardi à Nanterre.
Bunong group attends French court hearing over land dispute
- Phnom Penh Post
- 01 October 2019
Nine representatives of the Bunong indigenous communities in Cambodia who claimed to be victim to plantation project by French company Socfin-KCD appeared for questioning at the Tribunal of Nanterre in France.
Le combat de paysans cambodgiens contre Bolloré
- Le Parisien
- 01 October 2019
Ils ont saisi la justice française pour réclamer la restitution de leurs terres, accaparées depuis douze ans par des plantations d’hévéa.
Des Cambodgiens à Paris pour demander des comptes à Bolloré
- Mediapart
- 01 October 2019
Quatre-vingts cultivateurs poursuivent le groupe Bolloré et ses filiales, les accusant d’avoir accaparé leurs terres ancestrales.
UK government body accepts OECD complaint against sugar “sustainability” body
- IDI
- 25 September 2019
The complaint was filed in March on behalf of more than 700 displaced Cambodian families by the U.S. organization IDI and the Cambodian organizations Equitable Cambodia and LICADHO
Respect and protect the Mekong people’s rights to land and resources: A call for support
- Mekong Solidarity
- 11 September 2019
Threats of and actual displacements of rural communities in the Mekong have been on the rise amid increasing land deals for corporate plantations, mining, logging, biofuels, food crops for exports.
Uprooted
- SEt Asia Globe
- 29 August 2019
Landgrabs, deforestation and an increasingly-globalised Khmer culture are encroaching deep into the lands and lore of Cambodia's indigenous Bunong people
Land returns after complaint to World Bank offer hope to indigenous villagers
- VoA Cambodia
- 05 August 2019
After a decade of hardship, indigenous villagers in Cambodia scored a significant victory after they put pressure on the World Bank Group over its financial ties to a land-grabbing company, Vietnam agribusiness giant HAGL.
L’accord commercial du RCEP va intensifier l’accaparement de terres en Asie
- GRAIN
- 30 July 2019
Le RCEP changera la manière dont les gouvernements décident des droits fonciers et qui a accès à la terre. Il pourrait par conséquent intensifier l’accaparement des terres en Asie. Nouvel article de GRAIN.
To AIIB: Stop bankrolling landgrabs
- PCFS
- 16 July 2019
The Peoples Coalition on Food Sovereignty demands the members of the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank stop funding projects, especially China’s Belt and Road Initiative, that result in landgrabbing.
RCEP trade deal will intensify land grabbing in Asia
- GRAIN
- 15 July 2019
RCEP will not just change rules on the export and import of goods and services; it will change how governments decide on rights to land and who has access to it.