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18 April 2016
The bulk of Cambodia’s economic land concessions (ELCs) – at the centre of numerous land disputes and human rights concerns over the past two decades – generated just $5 million for state coffers last year, with critics attributing the meagre returns to a lack of collection capacity as well as…
27 October 2014
More than 1 million hectares of forest terrain and land leased by private companies has been put under government control since Prime Minister Hun Sen initiated a moratorium on new economic land concessions (ELCs) in May 2012, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has…
1 February 2012
The entirety of three protected forests are now classified as private land, an investigation from rights group Adhoc has found, along with tens of thousands of additional hectares of what has once been state public land.
In total, an area slightly smaller than the size of Jakarta has been…
October 5, 2012
Our second co-development workshop took place in Cambodia, during the week of September 24-28. Thanks to host organization Star Kampuchea and participants from NGO Forum, Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) and Open Development Cambodia (ODC) and other organizations who…
[via WITNESS] GENEVA, October 2, 2012– Buddhist monk Venerable Luon Sovath has been presented the prestigious Martin Ennals Award (MEA) for human rights by 10 internationally-recognized human rights organizations in Geneva today.
Venerable Sovath, who was one of three nominees for the award, was…
‘I do not want to be a monk,’ says boy forced to live in a pagoda after his single mother lost her land in dispute with company
Ches Chea is a reluctant monk. Two years ago, the sad-faced 12-year-old’s widowed single mother sent him to live at his village’s pagoda after she lost her farmland in…
Tout au long des 30 km qui séparent leur village de Kampong Chhnang, les manifestants font connaître leurs revendications en chantant des slogans.
Fragilisé par de mauvais résultats électoraux l’an dernier, le parti du premier ministre Hun Sen n’écoute pas davantage la contestation des paysans…
Human Rights Situation of the Indigenous Peoples in Cambodia
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This report on the human rights situation of indigenous peoples of Cambodia was prepared mainly from the contributions of indigenous peoples human rights defenders (IPHRDs) and NGOs in the country. This is an update…
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By: Hul Reaksmey
September 28, 2015 5:25 PM
PHNOM PENH— Rights advocates in Cambodia allege government violations of the country's constitution are largely responsible for land disputes harming tens of thousands of families.
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Around 1,500 protesters marked World Habitat Day on Monday by marching through Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh and calling on the government to put a stop to forced evictions in the Southeast Asian nation.
Evictees, monks, and activists joined the march to the National Assembly, or parliament,…
[Editor’s note: Researchers at the environmental watchdog Global Witness say Cambodia’s ongoing land crisis is part of a larger global trend, one driven by economics and resource shortages. With less stability in markets and investments, investors have gone looking for farmland in countries like…
Open Development Cambodia (ODC) launched a new platform (https://cambodia.opendevelopmentmekong.net) that significantly expands the range and functionality of the development-related data it makes
available to the public.
Now a member of the Open Development Mekong Network, ODC’s popular content…