Open letter to EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht on human rights and trade with Cambodia
IDI has written an open letter to EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht, together with nine other Cambodian and European civil society organizations, calling upon the European Commission to investigate escalating human rights abuses in Cambodia resulting from the granting of economic land concessions for agroindustrial development, in connection with goods being exported to the […]
Victory! BKL 13 are released
Inclusive Development International welcomes the release from prison of 13 women from Boeung Kak lake, Phnom Penh, following a ruling by the Appeals Court on June 27 that upheld the convictions but reduced their sentences to time already served. On May 22nd the land rights activists were arrested during a peaceful protest, convicted on baseless […]
Promoting a human rights approach to development of Cambodia’s land sector
In May 2012, IDI partner Equitable Cambodia and the Heinrich Boll Foundation published A Discussion Paper on a Human Rights Approach to Development of Cambodia’s Land Sector, authored by IDI Associate Natalie Bugalski. The paper offers a rationale for adopting a human rights approach to development and recommends a ten-pronged framework for adopting the approach in the land […]
Open Letter to World Bank President Robert Zoellick and President-Elect Jim Yong Kim
May 30, 2012 Dear President Zoellick and President-Elect Kim, It has recently come to our attention that the World Bank is considering ending its suspension of new loans to the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) and preparing an Interim Strategy Note to facilitate new lending. We, the undersigned organizations, write to express our deeply held […]
13 Boeung Kak activists violently arrested after breaking into song
On May 22, 2012, female residents of Boeung Kak staged a peaceful demonstration on the sand dunes that cover what was once a village on the shores of the lake. The demonstration followed thwarted efforts by one family to demarcate the boundary of their home, which had been submerged in sand during the filling of […]