Cambodia

The Cambodian farmers who sued the Breton businessman for land grabbing were dismissed by the court of Nanterre.

Les paysans cambodgiens ont été déboutés par le tribunal de Nanterre, dans une affaire d’accaparement de terres les opposant à l’homme d’affaires breton.

Le tribunal français a trouvé qu' "aucun des 80 demandeurs et intervenants volontaires ne justifie d'un droit réel ou personnel pour exploiter les terres litigieuses".

Eighty Cambodian farmers of the Bunong ethnic group were dismissed on Friday by the judicial court of Nanterre. They believed that they had been robbed of their ancestral forest by the Bolloré group, who replaced it with rubber plantations. The farmers' lawyer has appealed against this judgment.

For too long, consumer brands have sourced raw materials from abusive companies. We’ve seen up close the damage this has caused in Cambodia, and how elusive remedy has been for affected communities. But with mandatory due diligence laws on the horizon in Europe, communities will finally have the opportunity to hold brands accountable for violations in their supply chains.

Botum Sakor National Park in southern Cambodia has lost at least 30,000 ha of forest over the past three decades. Environmental degradation go back to the late 1990s when Cambodian government began handing out economic land concessions for commercial plantations and tourist infrastructure.

Over 30 families from the Kreung indigenous community say that Singapore-based SK Plantations has bulldozed their forests and crops, demolished their homes and sent in security forces to stop them from planting.

European companies, including oil and rubber giant Socfin, have long profited from human rights abuses, environmental destruction and climate breakdown. This briefing from Global Witness sets out proposals on how to change that under EU law,

FIDH, along with Global Witness and Climate Counsel, submitted an open letter dated March 16 to Fatou Bensouda, the current prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), urging to open a preliminary examination into land-grabbing in Cambodia.

Three leading climate and human rights nonprofits have asked the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in the Hague to pursue rampant “land grabbing” by the government of Cambodia and its commerce partners as a crime against humanity under the court’s jurisdiction.

A decision by the International Criminal Court Prosecutor concerning allegations of crimes against humanity stemming from the land grabbing frenzy is expected by June this year.

La FIDH, Global Witness et Climate Counsel ont appris qu’une décision de la Procureure de la CPI concernant les allégations de crimes contre l’humanité découlant de la frénésie d’accaparement de terres est attendue d’ici juin