Tag: Land Rights
Myanmar: Letpadaung Villagers Fear Crackdown After Compensation Deadline
Villagers opposed to the Chinese-backed Letpadaung copper mine in northern Myanmar fear a harsh government crackdown after next week’s deadline for them to accept financial compensation for giving up their land for the project, activists said.
Some 400 residents from 10 villages in the Letpadaung area in Sagaing region marched...
Malaysia: Police were brutal, say Kg Hakka victims
KUALA LUMPUR: About 30 villagers from Kampung Hakka, Mantin gathered at the Bukit Aman police headquarters today to hand over a memorandum on claims that the Mantin police officers were brutal and bias towards them.
Prior to that, this morning they also handed a memorandum to the Human Rights Commission...
Myanmar: Residents Protest Letpadaung Copper Mine Resumption
The China-backed Letpadaung copper mine in northern Myanmar’s Sagaing region has resumed operations without fulfilling conditions imposed by lawmakers, residents said in a meeting with top government officials Tuesday, lodging fresh calls for a halt to the project.
The complaints were made at a meeting in Sarlingyi town with Hla...
Cambodia: Ethnic villagers point finger at land official
Rights group Adhoc is investigating claims that a Ratanakkiri province cadastral officer is illegally grabbing and selling off forest land, officials at the organisation said.
Khin Sophal, a director of the O’Yadav district cadastral office, bought land titles from 50 families in the province and sold the parcels to a...
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...
Cambodia: Villagers fight mining venture
Nearly 70 representatives from 278 families in Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district are seeking intervention after a national mining company began drilling on their farmland last week, locals said yesterday.
According to villager Yean Bunchan, 47, representatives from a company based in Kandal province called T P B-TV Development met with...
Cambodia: After prison, Bopha undeterred
Shelving any thoughts that 14 months in prison had deterred her from protesting, Yorm Bopha rushed to the capital’s Borei Keila community yesterday morning to try to stop authorities from forcing evictees from an abandoned building.
Bopha was one of about 10 Boeung Kak activists called on to help after...
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...
Failing land policy in Burma
The earlier time under consecutive military regimes, there were widespread confiscation of land from small and poor farmers in rural Burma (Myanmar) for development ventures and natural resource extraction projects. Regrettably, the rate of confiscation appears to be continuing unrestrained under the existing quasi-civilian government. The unfair practice may...
A bittersweet success
As Cambodian government officials and top European Union diplomats kick off four days of high-level meetings in Brussels today, new EU trade statistics show that imports of Cambodian sugar – a crop linked to extensive alleged land grabbing – quadrupled between 2012 and 2013.
Cambodian exports enjoy duty-free and quota-free...
