CCU's employees reacted against Phnom Penh hall's officers’ accusation last week on agreement violation on 10-July-2012

Local police in Ratanakkiri province’s Veun Sai district yesterday try to shut down a community meeting in which villagers were being educated about land rights, because it was being held without permission, rights workers said.

A child in a Cambodian drug rehabilitation centre was forced to perform oral sex on a military police commander while women in the same institutions have been raped for days on end, a damning new report from Human Rights Watch has found.

A mid a spate of garment factory strikes including one at Tai Yang Enterprises that has lasted more than a month Cambodia’s Arbitration Council yesterday said it wanted the industry to renew a memorandum of understanding on industrial action that has been in limbo since November.

A traditional healer was arrested in Kompong Thom province on Sunday for raping a woman, and possibly dozens of others, under the pretense of issuing medical treatment, police said yesterday.

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday questioned its first witness in the case against Beehive Radio owner Mam Sonando, court officials said yesterday.

About 10 workers were beaten by police and military police during a protest over severance payments yesterday in Kandal province, workers and union representatives said.

Supporters of detained Association of Democrats president and Beehive Radio director Mam Sonando were prevented in four provinces from gathering thumbprints for a petition calling for his release yesterday association members said.

CCHR motivates the use of modern mass media system to promote and protect the human rights in Cambodia while the government is drafting the Cyber Law.

A law on the management of farmland currently being drafted by the Ministry of Agriculture is a threat to private land owners as it imposes criminal penalties for farmers who do not abide by new powers the government would have to demarcate land, a human rights group said in a report released yesterday.