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An investigation into sugar corporations

In January 2015, the EU employed 2 consultants to carry out an investigation into allegations of forced evictions by sugar corporations doing business with the alinement, however the results of that probe have yet to be made public.

The delegation in Cambodia sent a press release to the Post, that said it absolutely was “clear that the issues on the chance of attainable accusations of guiltiness with alleged land grabbing and human rights abuses associated with sugar cane production in Kingdom of Cambodia is discouraging EU importers to supply from Cambodia, and the private sector to further invest in this trade.”

Calls by Anadolu Agency to David Pred, managing director of inclusive Development International, and Eang Vuthy, executive director of equitable Cambodia, were unsuccessful on Tuesday.

Both NGOs are part of a coalition that originated what's called the “Clean Sugar” campaign in 2011 that place pressure on the Thai MitrPhol and Khon Kaen Sugar business firms, Cambodia’s Phnom Penh Sugar company and consumers Coca-Cola and Tate and Lyle.

In 2014, Coca-Cola audited its suppliers, inflicting Mitr Phol to drag out of Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province last year.

Tate and Lyle has also been sued by about two hundred families suffering from the trade in Koh Kong province.


Excerpted from: Lauren Crothers
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