Group Calls for Charges Against Unionists to Be Dropped

• Released Date: 05-Sep-2014

BY MECH DARA AND ZSOMBOR PETER | SEPTEMBER 5, 2014Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday accused the Cambodian government of pressing charges against some of the countrys most prominent union leaders in order to get its way in ongoing wage negotiations

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Union leader says charges baseless

• Released Date: 04-Sep-2014

Thu, 4 September 2014Mom Kunthear One of six union leaders charged and summonsed for questioning over a strike that ended in government forces shooting dead at least five people in January has sent a message to authorities to hurry up and get his hea

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Union Leaders Charged Over Nationwide Protests

• Released Date: 03-Sep-2014

BY MECH DARA AND HOLLY ROBERTSON | SEPTEMBER 3, 2014At least five of the countrys most prominent union leaders have been charged in connection with massive garment sector strikes and demonstrations in December and January and have been called to appe

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Dispute to End in September

• Released Date: 02-Sep-2014

PHNOM PENH, September 1, (Khmer Times) – Villagers from three provinces marched to the Prime Ministers house and to the National Assembly to demand solutions for their land issue.Villagers from the three provinces (Battambang, BanteayMeanchey and Pai

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Hun Sen Gives Hope to Villagers in Land Fight

• Released Date: 02-Sep-2014

BY MECH DARA AND GEORGE WRIGHT | SEPTEMBER 2, 2014Last month, Prime Minister Hun Sen was mocked for claiming in a speech on August 18 that he was unaware of a land dispute in Kratie provinces Snuol district over which villagers had repeatedly petitio

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Strikers vow to continue protesting

• Released Date: 02-Sep-2014

Tue, 2 September 2014Mom Kunthear Nearly 400 workers made a four-hour trek yesterday from their garment factory in Por Sen Chey district to Phnom Penhs Ministry of Labour, where they demanded the government intervene in their dispute.Employees at Xin

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Land Title Awarded to Kratie Villagers

• Released Date: 01-Sep-2014

PHNOM PENH, August 31, (Khmer Times) - Mr. Im Chhun Lim, the Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) yesterday distributed land titles to Kratie villagers during a visit to the Wat Samaki Rainsey Pagoda yesterday.The Min

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KDC protests to go on

• Released Date: 01-Sep-2014

Mon, 1 September 2014Khouth Sophak Chakrya One of five villagers arrested in a land dispute with politically connected company KDC International told the Post after their release on Friday that he would keep protesting “until our community obtains a

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Police Backtrack on Factory Fire Probe, Say Complaint Needed

• Released Date: 28-Aug-2014

BY MECH DARA | AUGUST 28, 2014Lieutenant General Mok Chito of the National Police on Wednesday said authorities were not investigating the cause of a fire that gutted a Phnom Penh garment factory in July and killed a Chinese supervisor, and never had

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Kompong Chhnang Workers to Petition Hun Sen at Home

• Released Date: 28-Aug-2014

BY BEN SOKHEAN | AUGUST 28, 2014About 500 staff of the Chinese-owned Jiun Ye Garment factory in Kompong Chhnang province plan to rally outside Prime Minister Hun Sens house today after Labor Ministry-brokered negotiations with management failed to en

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Villagers taking Hun Sen at his word

• Released Date: 26-Aug-2014

Tue, 26 August 2014May Titthara, Pech Sotheary and Phak Seangly Rural communities from seven provinces will demand a resolution to their land conflicts in Phnom Penh today – an action being mirrored at provincial halls nationwide following a speech b

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In Final Report, UN Envoy Sees Progress on Human Rights

• Released Date: 26-Aug-2014

BY LAUREN CROTHERS | AUGUST 25, 2014Despite a series of violent clashes in which government forces shot dead seven people over the course of the last year, the human rights situation in the country is heading in a positive direction, U.N. human right

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