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NGOs Want New UN Goals to Focus on Rights
Dozens of non-government groups met in Phnom Penh this week to have their say in the U.N.’s plans for a new set of global development goals for the next 15…
EU Won’t Investigate Land Concessions—for Now
The trade commissioner and foreign affairs representative of the European Union (E.U.) have turned down a request from 13 members of the European Parliament that they immediately investigate Cambodia’s much…
Troubled Village Embroiled in New Land Disputes
A year after a massive military raid here that left a 14-year-old girl dead and hundreds of families evicted, there remains little sign of the original land dispute that turned…
In ‘Rebel’ Village, Fond Memories of a Slain Girl
Kong Kea, 24, describes on Tuesday how he saw 14-year-old Heng Chantha shot dead by security forces during a violent eviction in Kratie province's Broma village a year ago today.…
Cambodia Plantations Not IFC’s First Controversy
In the wake of a new report from environmental rights group Global Witness rebuking the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank for investing in rubber plantations accused…
Deutsche Bank, IFC Rubber Investments Questioned
A photo taken earlier this year shows forest cleared inside the economic land concession of Vietnam's Hoang Anh Gia Lai rubber company in Ratanakkiri province. The environmental rights group Global…
British Author Paints Khieu Samphan as Central KR Figure
($) For all of Khieu Samphan’s efforts to distance himself from the Khmer Rouge’s inner workings at his war crimes trial, British author Philip Short on Tuesday painted a portrait…
Sugar Firm Files Defense in Cambodian Lawsuit
($) British sugar firm Tate & Lyle has denied knowing of the alleged abuses at two Cambodian plantations accused of illegally driving hundreds of families off their farms and says…
Illegal Logging Threatens UN’s Carbon Trading Project
($) The military’s ongoing clearing of community forests in Oddar Meanchey province risks derailing Cambodia’s first forest-based carbon trading scheme backed by the U.N., according to the latest assessment of…
Non-Government Groups Take Stock of Country’s Rights Record
($) The government’s abuse of land rights and indigenous minorities were among the top concerns raised Tuesday by non-governmental groups at a workshop in Phnom Penh on Cambodia’s progress toward…
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