Tag: Land Rights
Komnas HAM demands farmers’ rights be upheld
Apriadi Gunawan, The Jakarta Post, Medan | Archipelago | Sat, January 10 2015, 10:28 AM
The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has urged the North Sumatra provincial administration and police to get involved and uphold the rights of members of the Padang Halaban farming community in a land...
PR – Human Rights Concerns Over Hydropower Development in Cambodia Brought to the UN
International and Cambodian groups today issued a complaint to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia raising concerns over human rights violations resulting from the development of two hydropower dam projects in Cambodia.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
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Phnom Penh, Cambodia: International and Cambodian...
Dam concerns sent to Subedi
Special Rapporteur Surya Subedi has been called on to investigate and seek justice for human rights violations caused by the development of two large-scale hydropower dams in Cambodia.
Wed, 14 January 2015 | Daniel Pye
Special Rapporteur Surya Subedi has been called on to investigate and seek justice for human rights...
Cambodia court upholds convictions for land rights activists
The tearful campaigners, wearing orange prison uniforms, repeatedly shouted 'very unjust' in Khmer as they were led out of the courtroom
Agence France-Presse
Published 3:49 PM, Jan 26, 2015
Updated 3:49 PM, Jan 26, 2015
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – A Cambodian court on Monday upheld convictions for 11 land activists involved in protests...
‘Palm Campaign’ returns to call for political prisoner release
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners and the Former Political Prisoner Society are calling on supporters from around the world to take photographs of their participation in their 2015 Palm Campaign, a repeat of the earlier 2010 campaign that showed photographs of famous and little known people with the...
Thai military storms forum on land rights in Isan, threatens organizers with arrest
More than 100 farmers in a northeastern province face charges on land encroachment as a result of the junta's Return the Forest policy, after the military prohibited the farmers from holding a public discussion to voice their concerns to the military government.
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Burma: Land Rights Activists Are Newest Political Prisoners
Burmese authorities should immediately stop using abusive laws on association and expression to halt the activities of land rights activists, Human Rights Watch said today. The recent arbitrary arrest of a prominent land rights advocate in Karen State exemplifies the government’s persecution of vocal opponents of land grabs by...
UN calls on Cambodia to address land and labor disputes
Cambodia’s rapid economic growth over the past decade has also intensified problems such as forced evictions and land grabs. The UN’s envoy to the country has called on the government to urgently tackle the issues.
Cambodia’s rapid economic growth over the past decade has also intensified problems such as forced...
While Myanmar military touts reforms, villages still fight land grabs
One man's sacrifice puts spotlight on large-scale property seizures
Simon Lewis and John Zaw, Ye Pu village
Myanmar 6 August 2015
One morning earlier this year, 63-year-old Myint Aung took a thick red pen and scrawled a series of messages on sheets of paper and on a large piece of plywood.
Then, at...
Farmers, indigenous peoples thumb down expansion of oil palm plantations
About a hundred farmers and indigenous peoples voiced out their opposition to the expansion of oil palm plantations in the country.
The Philippine Coconut Authority’s (PCA) 2014 to 2023 roadmap has identified about a million hectares of potential oil palm farms. Ninety eight percent of these areas are in Mindanao.
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