Samenvatting

Land grabbing is a growing global phenomenon, fuelled by corrupt local governments and companies investing money in agricultural land in developing countries around the world. While these investments are often made to feed Western consumers, they lead to homelessness, poverty and hunger in the communities that are the victims of the ensuing land grabs. The soaring prevalence of this phenomenon and its detrimental impacts on local communities have been recognised by organisations, scholars and the International Criminal Court (ICC). What is, however, largely missing from the discussion on an international criminal law response is the discriminatory and adverse impact land grabbing has on women. Land grabbing is amounting to gender-based persecution in Cambodia, under consideration of women’s rights, as is argued in this paper.