A sweet ending for plaintiffs in the Cambodian sugar case
Since last year’s groundbreaking settlement with Mitr Phol Sugar Company, Inclusive Development International has been working with our partners at Equitable Cambodia and community representatives to ensure a fair and equitable distribution of the settlement funds. This week, we transferred the final payments to more than 600 families who were forcibly dispossessed to make way for […]
Displaced Cambodian families reach long-awaited settlement with Thai sugar giant
Lead plaintiff Hoy Mai. Flickr photo by Prachatai shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license More than seven hundred families who were driven from their land to make way for an industrial sugar plantation in Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey Province in 2008 and 2009 have received a payment from the Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol Sugar […]
Cambodian families reach resolution with Thai sugar company, Mitr Phol: Joint Statement
Following the legal proceedings initiated in 2018 by the Plaintiffs against Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation Limited, and following the court mediation process, both Parties were afforded the opportunity to present their perspectives, thereby enhancing mutual understanding and facilitating a more comprehensive recognition of each other’s viewpoints, after which the Parties came to an Agreement and […]
Evidence Review Begins in Case Against Thai Sugar Giant Mitr Phol
Hoy Mai is the lead plaintiff in Hoy Mai & Others vs. Mitr Phol Co. Ltd. Hundreds of Cambodian families who were violently displaced by the Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol have been struggling for justice for over a decade. They recently had what some might consider their first day in court—a chance to begin […]
Cambodian communities reach settlement with sugar industry actors after decade-long campaign for redress
Two hundred Cambodian families whose land was forcibly seized to make way for a sugar plantation in Cambodia’s Koh Kong province have reached a financial settlement with key sugar industry supply chain actors. The settlement comes following more than a decade of advocacy and legal action in pursuit of justice for communities driven from their […]
Thai Court Greenlights Trial Against Global Sugar Supplier Mitr Phol
Thailand’s Court of Appeals last week denied Mitr Phol’s motion to dismiss a historic class action lawsuit filed against the company by plaintiffs representing hundreds of Cambodian families who were violently displaced to make way for one of the Thai sugar giant’s industrial sugar plantations. The case also shines a light on the serious human […]
Sustainable sugar group Bonsucro ignored rights abuses by member, UK body finds
Women watch their farm houses burn during forced eviction of Bos village (October 2009) (Phnom Penh) – The UK-based “sustainable sugarcane” certification body Bonsucro violated its international human rights responsibilities, according to a statement released by the UK National Contact Point (UK NCP), a government body that handles complaints against British multinational enterprises. The NCP […]
U.S. Court Orders Coca-Cola to Turn Over Evidence in Thai Human Rights Case
Lead Plaintiff Hoy Mai with her children (Atlanta, GA.) – A U.S. federal court in the Northern District of Georgia last week ordered the Coca-Cola Company to turn over evidence related to an ongoing class action against Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol in the Thai courts. The decision, an important victory for plaintiffs representing hundreds […]
Cambodians Seek Coca-Cola Company’s Help in Case Against Asia’s Largest Sugar Supplier
Read this release in Khmer here. Today, plaintiffs representing hundreds of families who were violently displaced to make way for an industrial sugar plantation in Cambodia have filed a petition in the Northern District of Georgia asking the U.S. Court to help them obtain evidence from Coca-Cola. The evidence would be used to support their […]
Announcement of the Bangkok South Civil Court Permitting Class Action Lawsuit against Mitr Phol
In 2020, Cambodian plaintiffs representing more than 700 farming families won a landmark appeal allowing them to move forward with their class action against Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol. The transboundary class action Hoy Mai & Others vs. Mitr Phol Co. Ltd. is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. The case was filed, with […]