Investigate the escalating human rights abuses
A joint letter to De Gucht, EU Commissioner for Trade
Call on the European Commission to investigate the escalating human rights abuses in Cambodia resulting from the granting of economic land concessions for agro-industrial development.
We, the undersigned civil society organizations, call on the European Commission to investigate the escalating human rights abuses in Cambodia resulting from the granting of economic land concessions for agro-industrial development, in connection with agricultural goods being exported to the European Union under the Everything But Arms initiative (EBA).
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