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Nothing sweet about it: how sugar fuels land grabs
Land grabbing is a bitter secret in the sugar supply chains of some of the world’s biggest food and beverage companies. Poor communities across the globe are in dispute or hav...
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New COVID-19 Guidance Notes on Housing Rights
Three guidance notes on housing rights issued by the Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing on COVID-19 and the protection of those living in homelessness, informal settlement, ...
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Resettlement Policy Framework of the Cambodia Sustainable Landscape and Ecotourism Project
This document is the Resettlement Policy Framework (RPF) for the proposed Cambodia Sustainable Landscape and Ecotourism Project (CSLEP) prepared by the Ministry of Environment (...
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Displacement and Dispossession: Forced Migration and Land Rights
This report, Displacement and Dispossession: Forced Migration and Land Rights in Burma focuses on land confiscation by Government forces, responsible for Burma’s most acute Hous...
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Property relations of the Hmong in Laos
This paper will attempt to descript the change in property relations of the Hmong in Namon Neua, Laos, and to show how land sharing, a form of redistribution and coping strategi...
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Land grabs and labour: Vietnamese workers on rubber plantations in southern Laos
Since the early 2000s the Lao government has dramatically increased the number of large-scale land concessions issued for agribusinesses. While studies have documented the socia...
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Collateral Damage: Land Loss and Abuses in Cambodia's Microfinance Sector
More than 2 million Cambodians currently have a loan with a microfinance institution, or MFI. Levels of debt have skyrocketed in recent years, leading to a number of human right...
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Untitled: tenure insecurity and inequality in the Cambodian land sector
Eight years have passed since the enactment of the 2001 Land Law, which established a framework for the recognition of land and property rights throughout Cambodia. In 2002 the ...
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Formalizing inequality: Land titling in Cambodia
This paper highlights the failure of the Cambodia's land titling programme to protect the rights of vulnerable people living on sought-after land in the Heart of Phnom Penh, Boe...
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Final Report on Compliance Review Panel Request No. 2012/2 on the Greater Mekong Subregion Rehabilitation of the Railway Project in the Kingdom of Cambodia
This report was prepared by the Compliance Review Panel (CRP) in response to a request for compliance review of the Greater Mekong Subregion: Rehabilitation of the Railway in Ca...
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Eviction and resistance in Cambodia: Five women tell their stories
Eviction and resistance in Cambodia tells the stories of five women whose lives have been blighted by a tragedy afflicting thousands across Cambodia. Mai, Sophal and Heap and Va...
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Housing and land rights issues in Cambodia: Annex to Parallel Report submitted to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
This document is prepared as an Annex to the Parallel Report and focuses on land and housing rights issues. Violations of housing and land rights are widely viewed as the major ...
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Derailed: A study on the resettlement process and impacts of the rehabilitation of the Cambodian railway
The Railway Project aims to enable efficient and cost-effective transport of heavy, bulky and hazardous cargo. According to ADB, this is expected to lower the costs of main comm...
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Lesson Learned of the White Building Redevelopment
This document details on the resolution procedures of the development impact from the beginning until reaching the consensus between the residents and the company, compensation ...
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The gender and equity implications of land-related investments on land access and labour and income-generating opportunities
A case study researched and published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on gender and equity implications of land related investments on selected agricultural inves...
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The Grand Theft of Dey Krahorm
The Grand Theft of Dey Krahorm, one of chapters in a Land Research Action Network publication on Land Struggles, tells the story of Dey Krahorm’s vital struggle to keep their co...
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Setting the right to use built land
Setting the right to use built land
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Identification of forest land use rights
Identification of forest land use rights
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To create wealth with the right land use.
To create wealth with the right land use.
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Land information coordination strategy
A report examining the availability of land and spatial information across Laos, the implications for land rights, and recommendations to improve upon the current situation.