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Lands grabs and other destructive environmental practices in Cambodia test the International Criminal Court
by Katie Surma
Farm workers cut a tree in the Cardamom Mountain rainforest in Cambodia in 2002. Photo: Peter Charlesworth/LightRocket via Getty Images
Five years ago, the ICC’s prosecutor said she would consider environmental crimes. Now, environmentalists and human rights activists want her to deliver.
Three leading climate and human rights nonprofits have asked the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in the Hague to pursue rampant “land grabbing” by the government of Cambodia and its commerce partners as a crime against humanity under the court’s jurisdiction.
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