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• Article / April 26, 2012

  • Land and environmental defenders
  • Cambodia

  Death of a Comrade

  Our ex-colleague and friend Chut Wutty died defending the forests that sustained him and thousands others.

  
• Report / Feb. 6, 2015

  • Forests
  • Cambodia
  • China

  The Cost of Luxury

  The multi-million dollar timber smuggling operation in Cambodia is driving rare trees to extinction. Find out how we're campaigning to stop illegal logging.

  
• Briefing / Dec. 5, 1999

  • Forests
  • Cambodia

  IFM in Cambodia (1999-2003)

  Global Witness was appointed the official independent monitor of Cambodia's forestry sector in 1999 and played this role until 2003.

  
• Briefing / May 14, 2013

  • Cambodia

  Global Witness and Cambodia – key moments

  In early 1995, Global Witness carried out its first investigations in Cambodia and Thailand, exposing how the illegal timber trade across the border was bankrolling the war effort of the genocidal Khmer Rouge.

  
• Report / July 20, 2018

  • Land Deals
  • Cambodia

  Who profits from the death of Cambodia’s democracy?

  As Cambodians head to the polls, Global Witness exposes an elusive club of politically exposed tycoons set to profit from the country's sham election

  
• Report / May 13, 2013

  • Forests
  • Land Deals
  • Cambodia
  • Laos

  Rubber Barons

  Vietnam’s two biggest rubber companies are moving into Cambodia and Laos, seizing farmland, flouting land and forest protection laws and wrecking local livelihoods.

  
• Blog post / March 5, 2014

  • Forests
  • Land Deals
  • Cambodia

  What will it take for the World Bank to take its commitment to “do no harm” seriously?

  2014 didn’t start well for the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private lending arm of the World Bank.

  
• Blog post / March 28, 2014

  • Cambodia

  The UK government’s promotion of trade and investment in Cambodia is misguided

  As a rule, the UK government doesn’t say much about Cambodia. I for one would like to see them say much more about the human and environmental disaster that is unfolding in the country, but they generally choose to stay quiet.

  
• Blog post / Sept. 22, 2014

  • Cambodia

  “We won’t be here forever.” A dead forest defender immortalised on film

  In 2011, in Cambodia’s northern Prey Lang forest I witnessed as a forest defender, Chut Wutty, prepared a group of community campaigners to enter the CRCK rubber company concession.

  
• Blog post / Oct. 7, 2014

  • Cambodia

  Obama pays tribute to slain activists, but we should also help those they leave behind

  Barack Obama has pledged greater US support for rights defenders, who are increasingly being killed for standing up to injustice.