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Two Months to Claim Land Certificates
- Released Date: 19-Sep-2016
City Hall said villagers affected by the development project of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) in Phnom Penhs Chroy Changvar district would have two months to claim the certificate of land policy before it would stop assuming res
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ICC move fuels debate on Cambodian case
- Released Date: 19-Sep-2016
A new paper from the International Criminal Court laying out a shift in focus to crimes linked to environmental destruction and the unlawful dispossession of land has rekindled the debate over whether the court will launch an investigation into a cas
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Protesters Request Ministry Intervention
- Released Date: 15-Sep-2016
Nearly 100 people representing more than 300 families from three communes in Chroy Changvar district protested at the Land Management Ministry yesterday, asking for a resolution to their land dispute with the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation
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Families claim rep kept land after trial
- Released Date: 15-Sep-2016
A former representative of more than 160 families stripped of their land has been taken to court on “breach of trust” and “false declaration” charges by the very people she once advocated for, some of whom now claim she kept the land titles for herse
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Boeung Kak activists petition World Bank, EU
- Released Date: 15-Sep-2016
Close to 20 Boeung Kak lake activists petitioned the European Union and World Bank yesterday asking for their intervention on behalf of jailed fellow activist Tep Vanny and a swift resolution to their land dispute.
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Families Protest over Land Dispute
- Released Date: 14-Sep-2016
Sixty-five people representing 71 families in Chrey Lors and Chhveang communes in Kandal provinces Ponhea Leu district protested at the Ministry of Land Management yesterday and requested the ministrys intervention and resolution of a nearly 10-year-
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Call for Better Handling of Land Disputes
- Released Date: 13-Sep-2016
Civil society organizations yesterday repeated calls for land disputes to be resolved quickly, peacefully and without authorities using police and the courts to put pressure on communities.
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Forum calls for speedy land dispute resolutions
- Released Date: 13-Sep-2016
Visible and, more importantly, speedy results are necessary if people are to have faith in recent government pledges to expedite Cambodias numerous land disputes, activists and rights workers said yesterday.
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Siem Reap villagers get lake land
- Released Date: 09-Sep-2016
Villages in Siem Reap yesterday welcomed a provincial court ruling that ordered the return of 300 hectares of land that local authorities had seized in 2011
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Borei Keila, Boeung Kak evictees march through capital
- Released Date: 09-Sep-2016
About 50 land evictees marched unimpeded from the US Embassy to Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday despite recent crackdowns on political petitions and protests tied to opposition deputy leader Kem Sokha and the detention of human rights activists.
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Families make their case in song
- Released Date: 09-Sep-2016
In an ongoing bid to save their land from developers, about 200 families yesterday gathered at the Ministry of Land Management and Urban Planning, where they broke into song.
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Sen Sok locals accuse ex-rep of stealing land
- Released Date: 07-Sep-2016
About 20 representatives of more than 160 Sen Sok district families delivered a petition to the Land Management Ministry yesterday claiming a former community representative poached land from them that they had spent seven years reclaiming through th
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