Cambodia

NGOs have filed a new complaint against Australia’s ANZ Bank claiming it owes compensation to 681 Cambodian families who say their farms were illegally grabbed by a sugarcane plantation the bank helped to finance.

A formal complaint filed to Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) against Australian ANZ Bank. The complaint was lodged on behalf of 681 families who were forcibly displaced.

Inclusive Development International sent a letter of complaint to the Australian Government outlining how ANZ was a part financier of a sugar plantation in Cambodia which saw almost 700 families forcibly evicted.

If the Cambodian government is held to account for these crimes, other governments and the companies involved will have to heed the warning and recognise that land grabbing is too big a price to pay for doing business.

Une communication soumise aujourd’hui à la Cour pénale internationale atteste que la pratique des crimes découlant de l’accaparement des terres au Cambodge est constitutive de crimes contre l’humanité.

Aid groups estimate that 770,000 people, or 6 per cent of Cambodia's population, have been evicted since 2000, including 20,000 people in the first three months of 2014.

Suspending the imports of sugar and rubber from Cambodia under the EBA arrangement should be the first step that the EU should take until the blatant abuse of human rights is halted.

Cambodian authorities have taken back thousands of hectares of land concessions from eight private companies, in order to create a national park

Cambodia's prime minister made a promise to tackle the country's most nagging social problem. Now his compatriots are taking him at his word.

Cambodia's Land Management Minister intervened in a high-profile land dispute between villagers and a South Korean agribusiness firmn, announcing that the lands would be taken back from the company and awarded to local residents.

Malgré le danger électoral qui guette, le PPC ne change pas de politique à l’égard des paysans expropriés.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has set up an interministerial panel to tackle the worsening problem of land grabs in the country, but NGOs say his own policies are fueling the crisis and need urgent revamp.