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PHNOM PENH, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Cambodian rights groups urged the European Union on Friday to investigate what they said were human rights violations by local firms exporting sugar to European countries under a free trade scheme.
"We are calling on the EU to investigate the gross human rights abuses that have been perpetrated in connection with the production of sugar that is being exported to Europe free of tariffs under the Everything but Arms agreement," David Pred, executive director of land rights group Bridges Across Borders Cambodia, told Reuters.
The "Everything But Arms" initiative lets developing countries export certain products tariff-free to the EU.
Pred said the initiative had not benefited poor Cambodian farmers, who had been forced off their land by the authorities and companies wanting to develop sugar production.
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"We are calling on the EU to investigate the gross human rights abuses that have been perpetrated in connection with the production of sugar that is being exported to Europe free of tariffs under the Everything but Arms agreement," David Pred, executive director of land rights group Bridges Across Borders Cambodia, told Reuters.
The "Everything But Arms" initiative lets developing countries export certain products tariff-free to the EU.
Pred said the initiative had not benefited poor Cambodian farmers, who had been forced off their land by the authorities and companies wanting to develop sugar production.
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