Monday, July 02, 2012

Press Conference on Cambodia Clean Sugar Campaign on 03 July 2012 at Meta House

*Cambodia Clean Sugar Campaign*

Media Advisory

On Tuesday, July 3, at 8:30am, leaders of communities that have been displaced and dispossessed by the sugar industry in Koh Kong, Kompong Speu and Oddar Meanchey and other "Clean Sugar" campaigners will hold a press conference at Meta House (*#37, Street Sothearos Blvd, opposite Phnom Penh Center*).

They will announce a call to consumers around the world to stop buying the 'blood sugar' sold by companies that have perpetrated or profited from land-grabbing, forced evictions and other violations of human rights. They will present a powerful online video that urges European consumers to boycott *Tate and Lyle Sugars* products until the company and its suppliers compensate the farmers whose land and crops were stolen to make way for their plantations.

Eang Vuthy
Representative of Equitable Cambodia
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Equitable Cambodia
#55, St. 101, Sangkat Boueng Trabek
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Phone: (+855) 12 791 700
Office: (+855) 68 899 298

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