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Arson Attempt at Home of Families in Bitter Land Dispute

An attacker on Monday set fire to a building occupied by three families in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district who are at the center of a long-running land dispute with a private company, according to a joint statement by five local rights groups. The rights groups—including Adhoc, the Cambodian Center...

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...

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...

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...

Rights Group: Half a Million Cambodians Affected by Land Disputes

A leading Cambodian human rights group says more than half a million people have been affected by land disputes in the country over the last 14 years. Am Sam Ath, lead investigator for Licadho, said Thursday that a “wave” of land grabs has continued this year, impacting families in nearly...

PHILIPPINES: Arrest of four poor urban leaders who were negotiating the postponement of a demolition of 21 homes

On 12 March 2014, Dondito Albasin, Sr., 56; Michael Poticar, 39; Alberto Jojo Llantada, 21 and Virgina Barrios, 28, were arrested by the police. Albasin, the current president of the neighbourhood association together with other officers and residents of Kilometer 23 West Service Road in Barangay (village) Cupang, were...

‘Burst’ of Land Disputes Sees Dozens of Cambodians Charged: Rights Group

Cambodian authorities have charged nearly half as many villagers in land dispute cases in the first three months of this year as they did in all of 2013, a local rights group said Thursday, adding that most of the rows stemmed from government-granted land concessions. Following a “burst” of new...

Cambodian Rights Worker Faces Death Threats Over Land Dispute

A worker with the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) has been intimidated and received death threats while trying to document the plight of three families involved in a bitter land dispute with a developer in the country’s capital, according to the center. The worker, Vann Sophath, was shooting a...

PHILIPPINES: Armed men and landlord that use force against indigenous tribes must be held to account

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned, and demands an investigation into the actions of the security guards and their employer landlord for shooting at, and holding at gunpoint, indigenous people who were to occupy their ancestral land in Quezon, Bukidnon. Photo: Manobo-Pulangihons tribes. In their mission report, titled:...

BURMA: Army prosecutes farmers for trespassing on their own land

In 1997-1998, Ponemawaddy Navy Headquarter, the 51 Infantry Battalion, and No. 6 Pathein Training Battalion confiscated 250 acres of land from farmers of Thabaung Township, Ayeyarwaddy Region. In 1997-1998, Ponemawaddy Navy Headquarter, the 51 Infantry Battalion, and No. 6 Pathein Training Battalion confiscated 250 acres of land from farmers of...