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Read More Women’s Affairs Ministry Flags ‘Inappropriate’ Media Coverage of Gendered Violence
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs is urging publications to report more professionally on violence against women after a media review found patterns of coverage that made light of the subject.
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Read More UN Special Rapporteur calls for Cambodia to respect democracy, human rights
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Vitit Muntarbhorn, on Friday ended his visit to the country by calling on the government to open up the political space and implement democratic reforms.
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Read More Youth Activists Say They Lost Confidence in the Ministry of Women’s Affairs regarding Violence against Women in the NagaWorld Labor Conflict
Chak Sopheap, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), said that there does not seem to be measured from the government to halt violence or rights violations such as the right to assembly. Instead, the government defends the authorities who commit violence, which is contrary to their responsibilities as well as to national and international laws that aim to address and eliminate violence against women.
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Read More Ratanakiri Land Dispute Escalates Amid Indigenous Frustration
Nine Tampoun villagers are facing an imminent court verdict over allegedly stealing wood from a Chinese concessionaire with which Ratanakiri communities have been locked in an escalating dispute.
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Read More UN official says Cambodia faces ‘severe’ human rights issues
Cambodia’s government should remove restrictions on political participation and introduce other democratic reforms to address “severe human rights challenges,” a U.N. rights monitor said Friday, following his first official visit to the country.
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Read More Rainsy cannot set conditions for his return, says Eysan
Reacting to a Facebook post of Sam Rainsy, former opposition leader, in which he put three conditions for his return to the Kingdom, Sok Eysan, spokesman of Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) said yesterday that Rainsy has the right to enter the country like any other person but he cannot set conditions.
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Read More Phnom Penh Judges accept new evidence against Kem Sokha
Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday agreed to accept the prosecution’s new evidence against former opposition leader Kem Sokha, despite the objections of the defense.
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Read More NEC is neutral, says spokesman
Opposition parties have the right to voice their concerns to the United Nations human rights envoy to Cambodia over alleged biased composition of the election body while the NEC maintain its neutrality to ensure free and fair elections.
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Read More Khmer Thavrak Activists Dismayed With Women’s Affairs Ministry
Activists from the Khmer Thavrak activist group said Thursday nothing had been done by the Women’s Affairs Ministry on an April petition they submitted about state violence against NagaWorld’s striking workers.
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Read More Gambling Symbols Spark Pageant Outcry
Two pageant contestants have sparked a public outcry by dressing as casino staff and carrying cards and dice to represent their provinces in the Miss Grand Cambodia 2022 event.
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Read More Timber Tycoon, Once Target of Crackdown, Made Hun Sen Adviser
In 2016, Hun Sen ordered a crackdown against Bunna and another timber tycoon, saying authorities should use firearms and helicopters to end the smuggling activity, government spokesperson Phay Siphan told the Phnom Penh Post at the time.
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Read More Briefs: Deputy Governors Appointed, SEZ Encroachers Charged
A string of officials have been appointed to expanded deputy governorships in at least seven provinces by promoting district governors, provincial administrators and two Muslim youth officers.
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Read More Authorities Reclaim 65,000 Hectares of Flooded Forest
About 65,000 hectares of flooded forest around the Tonle Sap Lake have been reclaimed, with 5,000 families relocated, to prevent further encroachment, according to the spokesman for the Ministry of Land Management.
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Read More Cambodian Deforestation and Poverty
Cambodia is a small country in South East Asia, however, it is experiencing some of the highest levels of deforestation in the world posing significant issues for poverty rates in the country. Forest area accounts for 45.7% of the country, while nearly 61% of the population lives in rural areas placing the vast majority of Cambodians in direct contact with the high levels of deforestation occurring in the country.
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Cambodia Readies Third Mass Trial of Opposition Officials
Cambodia’s government is gearing up to hold another mass trial of opposition activists and government critics, as the country moves toward national elections next year. On Monday, the local media outlet VOD English reported that 34 people have been charged with plotting against the government, in connection with a failed attempt of exiled opposition figure Mu Sochua to return to the country in 2020.
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Read More Abusive online content intolerable, Hun Sen warns
Prime Minister Hun Sen has instructed Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith to revoke the licences of any journalists who go live and insult others in public just to attract viewers.
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Read More Association Disputes ‘Crime Haven’ Tag as Trafficking Reports Mount
The Federation of Khmer Chinese in Cambodia on Wednesday disputed international media characterizations of the country as a haven for criminal syndicates as attention grows on human trafficking at scam compounds.
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Read More Court accepts new video evidence in Sokha treason trial
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has accepted video of a strike on Veng Sreng Street in Phnom Penh as additional evidence in the ongoing treason trial of former opposition leader Kem Sokha.
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Read More Journalists livestreaming profanity will lose their licence
Prime Minister Hun Sen instructed the Ministry of Information to revoke licence of any journalist who use derogatory language on air, including livestreaming on social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube.
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Read More Sam Rainsy Challenges PM on Flight Ban
Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned him and 33 other dissidents, most of them living abroad, for a joint hearing on conspiracy charges.
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