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2 Nov 2015

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Forest Stewardship Council

Global Witness complaint against Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) - Recommendation to the FSC Board of Directors, 9 June 2015

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[Evaluation of the complaint included stakeholder interviews with VRG executives, among others]…[W]e have information showing that VRG occupied land to which it was not entitled by encroaching severely on river corridors and possibly by extending outside its boundaries..The panel considers that these occurrences constitute clear and convincing evidence that VRG was involved in illegal activities in Cambodia…[T]he panel finds that there is clear and convincing evidence that VRG was the beneficiary of human and traditional rights violations mainly but not exclusively carried out by others…[T]he panel concludes that there is clear and convincing evidence that VRG destroyed High Conservation Values of several types during its conversion of forest to rubber plantation…