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• 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 / July 31, 2014

  • Land Deals
  • Laos

  Corruption is allowing loggers and land grabbers to run amok in Laos

  Revelations of a US$ 150 million hole in state coffers – the cost of corruption since 2012.

  
• Press Release / Nov. 1, 2012

  • Land Deals
  • Cambodia
  • Laos

  European leaders hosted on land grab site in Laos for key summit

  Read about this story in the Daily Telegraph  European and Asian leaders attending the ninth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM 9) in Vientiane, Laos next week will stay in luxury villas built on land taken from local communities.

  
• "What we've been reading" Article / Nov. 5, 2012

  • Land Deals
  • Cambodia
  • Laos

  Daily Telegraph - 'Land grab' as families are uprooted to make way for luxury resort that will host EU ministers

  At least 500 people have been uprooted from their homes to make way for luxury villas where European Union foreign ministers, including William Hague, will stay during a summit in Laos on Monday, writes David Blair in the Daily Telegraph. 
• Press Release / May 11, 2013

  • Forests
  • Land Deals
  • Cambodia
  • Laos

  International Finance Corporation and Deutsche Bank bankrolling Vietnamese land grabs in Cambodia and Laos

  Click here to read the report and watch the film  The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank are financing Vietnamese rubber companies driving a wave of land and forest "grabs" in Cambodia and Laos, according to a new report and film by Global Witness.
• Report / May 20, 2013

  • Forests
  • Land Deals
  • Cambodia
  • Laos

  Global Witness responds to HAGL’s claims over inaccuracy of Rubber Barons report

  Global Witness understands that Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) CEO Doan Nguyen Duc held a press conference during which the company contested evidence in Global Witness’ report ‘Rubber Barons’. This report highlights how the company’s rubber plantations in Cambodia and Laos are violating laws and contributing to environmental and human rights abuses.
• Press Release / Nov. 13, 2013

  • Land Deals
  • Cambodia
  • Laos

  Global Witness calls for investors to drop Vietnamese rubber giant HAGL over failure to reform on land grabs

  Vietnamese rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) has failed to keep to commitments to address environmental and human rights abuses in its plantations in Cambodia and Laos, Global Witness said today. The campaign group says the company now poses a financial and reputational risk to its investors, including Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation, and recommends they divest.
• Press Release / Nov. 29, 2013

  • Forests
  • Land Deals
  • Cambodia
  • Laos

  Deutsche Bank divests from Vietnamese land grabber HAGL following Global Witness’ expose

  Deutsche Bank no longer holds any significant stock in Vietnamese rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Global Witness has learned. The decision comes after the campaign group’s research revealed a wide range of environmental and human rights abuses in HAGL’s plantations in Cambodia and Laos.
• Press Release / Dec. 12, 2013

  • Forests
  • Land Deals
  • Cambodia
  • Laos

  Credit Suisse ignored human rights commitments and became major shareholder in Vietnamese rubber giant 2 weeks after land grab scandal

  Credit Suisse became the largest institutional shareholder in Vietnamese rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) just two weeks after Global Witness exposed a range of environmental and human rights abuses in the company’s plantations in Cambodia and Laos. Such action is in direct contravention of Credit Suisse’s commitments to human rights, the campaign group revealed today (1). The disclosures come as another investor confirmed it had divested from HAGL as a result of the Global Witness findings (2).  
• Press Release / Feb. 9, 2014

  • Forests
  • Land Deals
  • Cambodia
  • Laos

  Cambodian communities submit complaint to World Bank over bankrolling of Vietnamese rubber giant behind land grabs and human rights abuse

  Global Witness welcomes and supports a complaint submitted to the International Financial Corporation (IFC) today by Cambodian communities whose lives have been devastated by Vietnamese rubber baron Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL). The IFC – the private lending arm of the World Bank – invests in HAGL, a company responsible for environmental and human rights abuses in their plantations in both Cambodia and Laos.