Cambodia

Some 145 Cameroonians have been dismissed Friday by the French courts as they sought to force the Bolloré group to provide documents they hoped would show its links with a Cameroonian company that they accuse of violating their rights.

Mediation between some Bunong indigenous community members in Busra and the European-owned rubber company Socfin Cambodia has concluded

Depuis l’implantation sur leurs terres de Socfin-KCD, filiale minoritaire du groupe Bolloré, le mode de vie des Bunongs s’est métamorphosé. Une première audience de la procédure d’appel doit avoir lieu ce 13 décembre 2021, à Versailles, après un rejet en première instance. Reportage.

In September 2021, the signature of the final agreements between representatives from indigenous communities in Busra commune and the rubber company Socfin Cambodia concluded a five-year mediation process that started in 2016.

Cambodian families who were forcibly displaced by Phnom Penh Sugar Company have received a promised payment from Australia’s ANZ bank, which financed the sugar company from 2011-2014

Un nouveau rapport sur la stratégie fiscale du groupe agroalimentaire Socfin révèle comment les multinationales peuvent transférer leurs bénéfices des pays d’Afrique et d’Asie où sont produites les matières premières vers des paradis fiscaux tels que la Suisse.

Le groupe Socfin (détenu à 40% par le groupe Bolloré) transfère des bénéfices issus de la production de matières premières vers Fribourg, un canton suisse à faible fiscalité, selon un nouveau rapport de Pain pour le prochain, Alliance Sud et le Réseau allemand pour la justice fiscale

In July 2021, a French court ruled against a group of Indigenous Bunong farmers from Mondulkiri in Northeastern Cambodia. In light of recent discussions on the potential and constraints of legal activism, we aim here to highlight entrenched structural factors that can hinder communities in legal challenges to corporate land grabs.

A joint statement issued by 97 Bunong indigenous families in Mondulkiri province expressed disappointment in the Tribunal of Nanterre in France which overruled their complaints concerning 2,386ha of disputed land with French company Bollore. The families from Pech Chreada district’s Bou Sra commune said they would grant lawyers the right to file an appeal in France.

This community of itinerant farmers believes it was robbed of nearly 7,000 hectares of its land when the Cambodian government granted a concession to a joint venture in which the Bolloré group is a stakeholder.

Cette affaire illustre la difficulté des peuples autochtones à faire valoir leurs droits face à des multinationales.

The court of Nanterre has just dismissed 80 Bunong farmers who accused the French group of illegally appropriating their land in Cambodia. Ten years ago, Noam Léandri from Angers was commissioned by the International Federation for Human Rights to produce a report on the subject. He looks back.