Tag: Business and Human Rights
Cambodia: Housing Activists Clash With Police
PHNOM PENH – Some 100 demonstrators for housing rights clashed with police on Thursday, as they attempted to march on Phnom Penh’s City Hall to call for a solution for evictees of the neighborhood of Borei Keila.
No serious injuries were reported, after the group ran into some 100 riot...
Cambodia: Land-titling process ‘urgent’, Oxfam says
Accelerating the mapping and titling of rural farmland should be an “urgent” priority of the government and civil society, particularly when it comes to protecting indigenous peoples’ and women’s rights, Oxfam representatives said yesterday.
The remarks followed the release of an EU-funded survey of rural communities’ perceptions of their land...
Human Rights Abuses and Land Grab Claims Fail to Stop Myanmar-China Gas Pipeline Opening
A gas pipeline which has just opened between Myanmar and China has been the cause of human rights abuses, land grabs and large-scale pollution, according to human rights campaigners.
Human rights groups and local communities have accused those behind the construction of the 2,500km pipeline of a series of abuses...
Indonesia: Major palm oil companies accused of breaking ethical promises
Large palm oil companies that have promised to act ethically have been accused of land grabbing, ignoring human rights and exploiting labour in their African and Asian plantations.
In a damning 400-page investigation, the companies are variously charged with impacting on orangutan populations, destroying tropical forest and burning and draining...
Indonesia: Forest Misuse Costs Indonesia $7 Billion in Revenue, Report Says
Illegal logging and mismanagement of Indonesia’s forestry industry may have prevented more than $7 billion flowing to state coffers from 2007 to 2011, costing the government more than its health budget, Human Rights Watch said.
In contrast, the Indonesian government’s 2011 revenue from timber royalties and reforestation fees was $300...
Cambodia: Coca-Cola to Probe Seven-Year-Old Cambodian Land Grab Case
Declaring that it has "zero tolerance" towards land grabbing, Coca-Cola has agreed to investigate a long running case in Cambodia where villagers are seeking court action against a company accused of seizing their land to make way for plantations linked to the supply of sugar to the soft drinks...
Ashton: EU steady partner for Myanmar
BRUSSELS, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said Monday the bloc is resolved to help Myanmar chart a course to peace and sustainable development.
"The European Union is determined to help Myanmar pursue the path of peace, democracy and sustainable development; building up trade and...
Indonesia: Palm Oil Companies Keep Breaking the Promises They Claim to Keep
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was created in 2004 by the palm oil industry and civil society groups (including conservation groups like the WWF) to set guidelines for greener oil production and to encourage industry expansion without social conflict. 15 percent of palm oil produced is now...
Cambodia: Projects ‘threaten mangroves’
Mangrove forests along Cambodia’s coast in Kampot support more than 100,000 families and create a diverse ecosystem that is home to hundreds of unique species.
But coastal development projects, coupled with locals’ reliance on the forest for their livelihoods, threaten to decimate more than 1,000 hectares of this lush environment,...
Cambodia: Report Blames Tycoon for Major Forest Destruction
PHNOM PENH - Local human rights groups have identified 1,400 families who have been forcibly evicted from their land by a single business tycoon and his company.
The Cambodia Human Rights Task Force, a consortium of groups, said in a report Wednesday that Try Pheap, a powerful logging tycoon, has...
