19 Feb 2016

Inclusive Development International and two Cambodian partners filed a com­plaint with the global sugar industry group Bonsucro for re-­admitting Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol Group despite the fact that thousands of fam­ilies forced off their land to make way for the company’s for­mer plantations in Cambodia have yet to receive redress…

…Mitr Phol had resigned from the group in 2012 before Bonsucro could investigate a complaint made the previous year regarding human rights vi­olations on the company’s three sugarcane plantations in Oddar Meanchey province…

In October 2015, after a two year investigation, Mitr Phol was found by the Thai Human Rights Commission to be responsible for violating international obligations and rights of victims in Cambodia, who saw their land seized, homes destroyed and livestock killed to make way for the company’s plantations between 2008-2009…