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3 Indigenous People, Farmers or Land Activists Killed Every 2 Weeks Due to Land Conflicts and Struggles

Victims are mostly indigenous peoples (461 victims or 90% of the total) while the remaining are land activists, community leaders, farmers and agricultural workers. By Global Research News Global Research, July 02, 2015 farmlandgrab.org 1 July 2015 Victims are mostly indigenous peoples (461 victims or 90% of the total) while the remaining are...

Cambodian Villagers Block Chinese Developer From Clearing Grazing Land

Around 150 villagers in northwestern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province have blocked a Chinese concession holder from clearing land they say was reserved for grazing their cattle, an official from a nongovernmental organization and a local commune chief said Wednesday. 2015-06-24 Around 150 villagers in northwestern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province have blocked...

Time to end slavery on Thai fishing boats

Nick Grono says global funders and organisations must partner local groups to aid victims of trafficking, and put pressure on retailers and governments to enact change Nick Grono PUBLISHED : Monday, 15 June, 2015, 6:00am UPDATED : Monday, 15 June, 2015, 6:00am Aung is a farmer from Myanmar who ended up enslaved on...

Villagers Protest at National Assembly Over Land Disputes

About 100 villagers involved in two different land disputes in Kratie and Preah Vihear provinces converged on the National Assembly in Phnom Penh on Monday to ask the country’s lawmakers for help in settling their cases. By Khuon Narim | May 19, 2015 About 100 villagers involved in two different land...

Cambodian Villagers Protest Loss of Land, Livelihood to Concessions

Hundreds of indigenous families in eastern Cambodia are facing difficulty securing food after losing their communally shared farmland to several companies as part of government-granted land concessions, villagers and a rights group said Tuesday. RFA Wednesday 13th May, 2015 Hundreds of indigenous families in eastern Cambodia are facing difficulty securing food...

Palm Oil: Issues of Climate Change and Human Rights Violations

We often use household products without ever thinking where they come from, how they are produced, and who produces them. We live in a comfortable world where we simply go to the grocery store and buy things we need without thinking twice about their production or how they landed...

Rights Group Asks Gov’t to Disclose True Land Figures

At least 272 companies own plantations covering some 2.14 million hectares across the country, more than when Prime Minister Hun Sen placed a freeze on the approval of new economic land concessions (ELCs) three years ago and despite a spate of recent cancellations, according to rights group Licadho. By Zsombor...

Indonesia: NGOs file complaint against Holcim to Swiss National Contact Point, allege land rights abuses – company responds

On 19 March 2015, a group on NGOs and other civil society organizations, on behalf of the Ringinrejo people of East Java, filed a complaint to the Swiss OECD National Contact Point against Holcim Indonesia (part of Holcim Group, a Swiss building materials and aggregates company). On 19 March 2015,...

Myanmar Military Aided Massive Land Grab From Ethnic Minorities: Rights Group

 Businesses in Myanmar have colluded with military and government officials to seize vast tracts of farmland from ethnic minority villagers in the northeast, using much of the land for rubber plantations, a UK-based rights group said.   Reuters  |  By Alisa Tang Posted: 03/28/2015 3:51 pm EDT Updated: 03/28/2015 3:59 pm EDT BANGKOK,...

Rights group to submit land grabs to ICC

Myanmar’s long-standing land-grab issue is now to receive international exposure, as human rights activists prepare to file a specimen case with the International Criminal Court as a crime against humanity. Ko Zarni, a farmers’ rights defender and a volunteer with the International Federation for Human Rights, is organising the...