Cambodia seminar series 2012: Presenting the report of a fact finding mission to Cambodia ‘In Cambodia, People are Deprived of Land’

Cambodia Seminar Series 2012

Report of HRN Fact Finding Mission to Cambodia: ‘In Cambodia, People are Deprived of Land’

Recently, Cambodia has seen an alarming increase in the number of people evicted from the land where they live and people are losing their homes in the name of ”development”. The number of such cases is increasing year by year, with people forcefully evicted from agricultural land they are living on and depend upon for their livelihoods.

As frustration among those affected leads to countrywide protests against the evictions, the government has moved to suppress the protests by force. The Illegal arrest and detention of human rights defenders, brutal use of force against villagers, and even the killing of citizens are being reported as Cambodian people fight land disputes.

Human Rights Now (HRN), an international human rights NGO based in Tokyo, became concerned about the increasing number of these human rights violations in the country and sent a fact-finding mission to investigate.

This seminar session will see HRN report on these evictions and discuss the findings of their fact finding mission. After presentation of the report, a discussion will focus on peaceful solutions to the problem, as well as the role that Japanese civil society and other actors in Japan can play to help alleviate the situation.

Please feel free to join us on the day.

Event Details

Organizer: Human Rights Now

Date: Tuesday September 4th, 2012, 18:30 – 20:00

Venue: Collaboration Room 1, 4th Floor, Building No.18, Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo

Lectures: Ms. Kazuko Ito, Secretary General of HRN and Team Members of teh HRN Fact Finding Mission

Commentators: Sar Sochea (Utsunomiya University), A Japanese Foreign Ministry official and a JICA official

Moderator: Yasunobu Sato, University of Tokyo

Language: Japanese

Document fee: 500

Co-organizers

HSP

Research Center for Sustainable Peace, IAGS

Supporting Organization

Research Center for Sustainable Development, IAGS

Research Center for Asian Studies

CDR

People’s Forum on Cambodia

Reports on current situation