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<span class="date-display-single">Thu, 07/06/2012</span> </div>
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<p>This article and petition was prepared by a group of young Cambodian women activists.</p>
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<p>Evictions and forcible confiscations of land ranks as one of Cambodia's most pervasive human rights problems, and in fact is growing worse. Such actions, coupled with total impunity and a lack of the rule of law, are leading to violence fuelled by deep dissatisfaction over existing resettlement schemes. This in turn leads to violent responses by companies, the authorities and the law enforcement agencies.</p>
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