Thailand

Charoen Pokphand Group requests government assistance in finding 400-hectares of suitable land for aquaculture (shrimp) and 300 hectares for swine and poultry, including eggs.

Minister said Ghana has 40,000 hectares of land readily available to support large scale rice production and encouraged delegates from the Thai company Jospong Group to take advantage of it.

In 2014, over 700 Cambodian villagers filed a complaint with the Thai Human Rights Commission against Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol, accused of forced displacement, property destruction and land grabbing.The trial on the substance of the case is expected to start in April 2023, with a verdict at the end of next year.

US court orders Coca-Cola Company to turn over evidence related to ongoing class action lawsuit against Mitr Phol in Thai courts over allegations of forced eviction

An analysis of the global impact of a Thai court judgement, which provides a judicial forum to farmers from Cambodia, who were victims of transnational land grabbing.

A Bangkok court ruled that about 3,000 Cambodians could proceed with a class-action suit against Mitr Phol, the world’s fourth-largest sugar producer. Farmers in Oddar Meanchey province are seeking compensation after the Cambodian government allocated land to the company for sugar plantations.

Le tribunal civil de Bangkok a accordé à plus de 700 familles cambodgiennes le droit de se joindre à une action collective contre Mitr Phol, le plus grand producteur de sucre de Thaïlande, dont les activités au Cambodge ont conduit à l’expulsion forcée de familles en 2008 et 2009.

Today, Cambodian plaintiffs representing more than 700 farming families won a landmark appeal allowing them to move forward with their class action against Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol. The transboundary class action Hoy Mai & Others vs. Mitr Phol Co. Ltd. is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia.

On 17 July 2020, Amnesty International submitted a third-party legal intervention (amicus curiae brief)to Bangkok South Civil Court that grant Class Action Lawsuit (CAL) status to more than 700 Cambodian families who are suing Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol after being forcibly evicted from their homes in 2008-09.

Indigenous villagers have been protesting and fear air and water pollution in their communities

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.

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.