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Cambodia: Report calls out Pheap

Logging tycoon Try Pheap’s rapidly expanding land empire, criticised by rights groups for displacing families and encroaching on protected forest areas, has grown to almost 70,000 hectares in size and is helping to facilitate a cross-border illegal logging operation, a report released today alleges. The Cambodian Human Rights Task Force...

Malaysia: Jinjang residents turn to Suhakam

Residents protesting a proposed waste-to-energy facility in Jinjang have urged the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) to intervene and put a stop to the project. Tak-nak Incinerator Action Committee (KTI) chairman Isaiah Jacob said no consultation was done with residents before the plant was proposed and its location "is...

Malaysia: International NGOs take up plight of the Penans

Some 30 human rights and environmental non-governmental organisations have sent letters to 15 Malaysian missions worldwide calling for "good faith negotiations" with more than 100 Penan families who are displaced by the Murum hydroelectric dam project in Sarawak. The organisations which represent national, regional and international civil society groups are...

Cambodian NGOs Threaten to Expose More Illegal Logging

A group of Cambodian NGOs threatened on Monday to expose more cases of forestry crime involving businessmen and the police, saying they were unshaken by a defamation suit filed by a top tycoon accused of illegal logging and land-grabbing. Representatives of the five organizations told reporters Monday they have information...

Cambodia: Businessman Sues Villagers over Deforestation Allegations

PHNOM PENH - A powerful businessman is suing two villagers in Kandal province for defamation, after the two reported his alleged illegal logging to local human rights groups. The Kandal provincial court has summoned the two villagers, Sen San and Ouk Sambo, to testify on Friday. But the two have...

Cambodia: Local Groups Say They Must Protect Forest, as Government Fails

WASHINGTON — Local watchdog groups say they have been forced to take forest protection into their hands, due to a failure of government to do so. “As we have seen: the National Assembly, the Senate and the government do not work,” Ouch Leng, head of the Cambodian Human Rights Task...

ASEAN Youth pledge to protect the environment

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, 4 December 2013 - The ASEAN Plus Three Youth Environment Forum (AYEF) closed today with the youth participants making a pledge to take on environmental protection as a personal responsibility and demonstrate it through their daily activities to inspire other youths in their respective countries. In...

Filipino groups commemorate International Human Rights Day

CEBU (Mindanao Examiner / Dec. 10, 2013) - Various human rights groups held a solidarity candle lighting in the Philippines in commemoration of the International Human Rights Day and offered this to typhoon victims in the Visayas and victims of human rights violation in the country. “We devote the commemoration...

Malaysia must protect environment, indigenous rights as it reduces poverty – UN expert

After moving significantly towards reducing poverty, Malaysia must ensure that such gains do not come at the expense of the environment and the rights of vulnerable groups in society such as indigenous communities and migrant workers, a United Nations expert warned today. “Malaysia has made impressive progress towards the reduction...

ANZ monitors Cambodian sugar client accused of human rights abuses

ANZ says it is carefully monitoring the situation at a Cambodian sugar plantation linked to child labour, forced evictions and land grabs backed by the military. The Financial Review is reporting that ANZ's Cambodian joint-venture, ANZ Royal Bank, is financing the Phnom Penh Sugar plantation in Cambodia, which has been...