Tag: Business and Human Rights
Asean joins in hands in banning China’s dam projects
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) from Asean countries have committed to making collective efforts to push for the banning of dam construction in the Asean countries by China which can damage natural environment, according to the joint meeting of Asean People’s Forum (2014) held in March 20. China’s power demands...
UN human rights experts denounce land-grabbing case in Viet Nam
26 March 2014 – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today called on the Vietnamese Government to “intervene urgently” in a case of forced eviction of the last remaining residents of Con Dau, a small village located on the outskirts of Da Nang city in the...
Brands ‘failing their workers’
European mega-brands are not doing enough to ensure that the Cambodian workers who make their products receive a basic living wage, according to a report released today.
Tailored Wages, an analysis of 50 of Europe’s biggest clothing brands, found that many major high-street chains are doing little to combat the...
Rights group slams Cambodian gov’t over land grabs
PHNOM PENH - Cambodia’s government is under fire for failing to end violent land grabs, which a local rights watchdog says have affected 2,246 families this year and around half a million people since 2000.
The seizure of land from rural smallholders and ethnic minority villagers by the state or...
Blood sugar: Made in Cambodia
Cambodia is facing a human-rights crisis in the form of land grabbing and often-violent forced evictions by sugarcane plantations whose crops are destined for the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the European Union.
As a consequence of the EU’s Everything But Arms (EBA) preferential trade pact with Cambodia, sugar has...
Ploughing protesters highlight land grab grievances in Myanmar
Myanmar's swift economic development has been marked by the rise of a new class of political dissidents: the ploughing protesters.
They are farmers and activists angry that developers have snatched away farmland, rights groups say.
Five farmers were arrested on January 2 for trespassing on land they had been farming for...
BURMA/MYANMAR: Farmers falsely accused of trespass and destruction of a teak field are prosecuted and imprisoned
Magyi Pin, Kyar Inn village is located on Dandalon village tract, Pandaung Township, Pyay District, in the Western Part of the Bago Region. In 1966, government made a law in order to make paddy fields in the forest reserve area and gave the farmers legal documents for it. The...
In Picturesque Thailand, Coal Plant Draws Protests
KRABI, THAILAND — Environmental activists in Thailand are protesting plans to reopen an 800-megawatt coal plant in a coastal region, Krabi, that is popular with eco-tourists. The controversy pits Thailand’s growing energy needs against its image as a seaside paradise.
Along the southwestern coast, tourism is big business, worth more...
Close down mining firms violating laws in Philippines
MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / Apr. 13, 2014) - The Alyansa Tigil Mina has called on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources - Mines and Geosciences Bureau to close down many mining companies in the Philippines found violating environmental laws and those that committed human rights abuses.
This is in...
Killing of environmental activists rises globally
BANGKOK (AP) — As head of his village, Prajob Naowa-opas battled to save his community in central Thailand from the illegal dumping of toxic waste by filing petitions and leading villagers to block trucks carrying the stuff — until a gunman in broad daylight fired four shots into him.
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