Cambodia

Across Cambodia developers are seizing valuable pieces of land, throw the existing community out, and after protests ebb away, building new developments on them: malls and apartments for the newly rich.

Sexual assault and the annihilation of sacred graveyards are among the many claims levelled at Vietnamese Rubber giant HAGL by villagers in Cambodia's Ratanakkiri province.

A World Bank-supported rubber company accused of land grabs has suspended some of its projects in Cambodia, as an investigation by the bank continues.

Elle accuse ces établissements de financer des sociétés impliquées dans des spoliations foncières, des exploitations forestières illégales et le travail des enfants.

One of Australia's big banks is facing scrutiny it financed a Cambodian sugar business responsible for forcing almost 500 families off their land.

Australia’s major banks are funding large-scale illegal “land grabs” in the developing world and enabling illegal logging, child labour or other human rights abuses.

The International Finance Corporation has launched an internal investigation into a complaint lodged against the institution for investing in a Vietnamese rubber firm accused of land grabbing.

Controversial Vietnamese rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group is to expand its agricultural business in Cambodia to include corn, according to the company’s CEO Nguyen Van Su.

LICADHO documents half a million Cambodians evicted or at risk of eviction since 2000 because of government land seizures and policies to lease swathes of land to well-connected companies.

La question des conséquences sociales de l’accord « Tout sauf les armes » est désormais sur la table.

The Cambodian government and the European Union remained at odds last week over how to compensate families that have lost land to the country’s controversial sugar plantations and seemed to move closer to agreement on the need for an outside party to mediate.

Union Development Group continues to bulldoze the land of Koh Kong province families. Villagers say the company is breaking with its concession agreement by planting cassava instead of building a luxury resort.