Cambodia

Sugar industry highlights conflicts over trade pacts and land
- New York Times
- 01 October 2013
Activists have called for the exclusion of Cambodian sugar from duty-free treatment in Europe, saying that it triggers corporate land grabs.
Activists doubt Cambodia pledge to stop land concessions
- Wall Street Journal
- 30 September 2013
Activists say the Cambodian government’s freewheeling issuance of land concessions has denuded large swaths of forests, robbed rural communities of their livelihoods and vitality, and could undercut the country’s fragile developmen
When bad development happens to good people
- Reuters
- 19 September 2013
Large-scale agricultural projects in Cambodia as well as in parts Africa have driven small-holder farmers into wage labour out of distress.
Cambodge – Les multinationales se sucrent, les populations trinquent
- Peuples Solidaires
- 18 September 2013
Au Cambodge, les compagnies sucrières dépossèdent des milliers d’hommes, de femmes et d’enfants de leurs terres. Demandons à Karel de Gucht, Commissaire européen au commerce, de faire cesser ce scandale !
EU’s Everything But Arms initiative is impoverishing Cambodian farmers
- Inclusive Development
- 17 September 2013
An EU trade initiative intended to reduce poverty in the world’s poorest countries has driven thousands of Cambodian farming families into destitution and led to serious human rights violations, says new report
Jailed Yorm Bopha symbolizes a widespread problem in Cambodia – land grabs
- CSM
- 10 September 2013
Land grabbing has affected an estimated 400,000 Cambodians since 2003, helping to create a sizable under class of landless villagers with no means for self-sustenance.
The great Southeast Asian land grab
- The Diplomat
- 08 August 2013
Disputes over land tenure threaten social harmony in a number of ASEAN countries
Agribusiness large-scale land acquisitions and human rights in Southeast Asia
- FPP
- 02 August 2013
Updates from Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia, Timor-Leste and Burma, by Forest Peoples Programme
Cambodia opposition taps Into 'land grab' anger
- Wall Street Journal
- 25 July 2013
As election nears, government's land policies have become a campaign issue
Sugar groups suspends Tate & Lyle over Cambodia land-grabbing
- Clean Sugar Campaign
- 17 July 2013
Yesterday the board of Bonsucro, a responsible sugar initiative, announced its decision to suspend Tate & Lyle Sugars (TLS) over complaints that the UK sugar giant buys from a plantation in Koh Kong, Cambodia, on land stolen from local villagers.
C. Kek Pung Licadho on land grabbing
- HBF
- 15 July 2013
Founder of the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights says land grabbing is the worst problem facing Cambodians.
El mayor productor mundial de azúcar se beneficia del trabajo infantil
- Actualidad
- 10 July 2013
Tate & Lyle, el mayor fabricante mundial de azúcar, se beneficia del trabajo casi gratuito de niños camboyanos y de la expropiación de tierras a través de su proveedora local, la tailandesa KSL.