Landmark Report Promotes Human Rights in Transboundary Investments

Jul 10, 2015 | Maureen Harris
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Almost 10 years ago, hundreds of villagers in Sre Ambel District in Koh Kong Province in south-western Cambodia were violently evicted from their homes to make way for a massive land concession granted to a group of companies to develop a sugar plantation and processing factory. The plantation and factory, majority owned by Thai company Khon Kaen Sugar Limited (KSL) produces sugar for duty free imports to the United Kingdom, in the name of supporting ‘economic development’ in Cambodia under a European Union trade for development initiative.