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2 Nov 2012

Author:
Elaine Watson, Food Navigator USA

Cambodians file complaint with US government vs American Sugar Refining over ‘land-grabbing’ deal [Cambodia]

Cambodian villagers who claim they were illegally evicted from their land to make way for a sugar plantation that supplies American Sugar Refining [ASR] (Domino Sugar), have filed a complaint with a US government office that handles alleged breaches of OECD guidelines governing the conduct of multinational companies...[M]ore than 200 farming families...have lost their livelihoods, claims EarthRights International... [Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited American Sugar Refining/Domino Sugar to respond - the company did not do so] [also refers to Khon Kaen Sugar (part of KSL Group), Tate & Lyle, Ve Wong]

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