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Rape Cases Up 64% in First Half of 2015, Adhoc Says
Rights group Adhoc recorded 131 rape cases in the first six months of the year, compared to 80 cases in 2014—a nearly 64 percent increase—due to the influence of “uncontrolled foreign cultures” such as pornography, according to a report released by the NGO on Wednesday. The report says that 100 of those cases involved the rape of a minor: 63 cases in which the victim was between 10 and 18 years old, 32 cases in which the victim was between 5 and 10, and five cases in which the victim was younger than 5.
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Three more Cambodia activists held for 'insurrection'
PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian court Wednesday detained three more opposition activists for insurrection over their alleged roles in protests that turned violent last year, a move condemned as politically motivated by a rights group. Last month 11 opposition members and activists were jailed on the same charges - including three who received 20-year sentences. The legal moves against supporters of the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) stem from clashes between protesters and authorities in July last year during a demonstration against the closure of Freedom Park, a key site for public rallies in Phnom Penh. Dozens of security officers and several protesters were injured in the clashes.
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Reporter ‘threatened over photo’
In an incident condemned by a Cambodian journalists’ organisation, a reporter said he received a death threat for posting the photo of a drug raid suspect on Facebook on Sunday. Taing Ho, a Siem Reap-based reporter for Apsara News Network, said a man he believed to be a relative of the suspect began insulting him on the social media site after he posted a photo of military police cracking down on alleged drug traffickers. After Ho filed a court complaint the next day, the reporter said he received a menacing phone call from an unknown number.
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Two China brides come home, one more on way
Two women trafficked to China as brides were repatriated through Siem Reap International Airport yesterday and another is slated to return today, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The two women who returned yesterday, aged 24 and 34, hail from Kampong Speu and Kampong Cham provinces. The third woman – scheduled to return at noon – comes from Takeo. “The Cambodian [consulate] in China, Guangzhou city, intervened to rescue two Cambodian women who were cheated into marrying Chinese men in Fujian province and Zhejiang province” a ministry announcement reads.
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Censor pornography: NGO
Pornography is contributing to Cambodia’s rising problem with rape and should be subject to censorship, according to a new report from rights group Adhoc. The Report on the Situation of Women and Children’s Rights During the First Semester of 2015, released yesterday, noted that in the first six months of this year, Adhoc registered 131 cases of rape. Among those attacks, 100 were committed against underage girls, including 37 cases involving girls below the age of 10. The report also noted an increase in rapes being committed by men against their elderly mother-in-laws, “often older than 80 years old”, as well as fathers raping their daughters, grandfathers raping their granddaughters, and male minors raping younger girls.
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EU Meets Adhoc Over Complaints Against Monitor
Representatives of the European Union met with officials from local rights group Adhoc on Tuesday to pledge their “moral and political support” as the organization’s head of monitoring faces criminal charges, according to Adhoc’s president.
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Teen girl ‘chained up, raped’
Three people were arrested in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district on child sex-trafficking charges on Monday after a 13-year-old girl complained to police she had been chained up, confined and raped. According to Anti-Human Trafficking police chief Keo Thea, two of the accused are the victim’s aunts, who had taken care of the girl following the death of her parents. They allegedly charged the third suspect $1,000 to take the victim to a hotel last year and rape her.
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Adhoc calls on foreign embassies for support
Local rights group Adhoc yesterday met with an EU representative and four foreign embassy officials to ask for their support in safeguarding human rights in the Kingdom as prominent activist Ny Chakrya faces defamation charges. The suggestion was made during a closed-door meeting with an EU counsellor and four embassy officials from France, Germany, Sweden and the UK. Adhoc director Thun Saray he had brought up concerns over land disputes and the government’s egregious use of Cambodia’s court system to intimidate activists such as Chakrya.
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GMAC no fan of union law
The Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia says it will push for revisions made on the draft trade union law last week to be changed. During a meeting on July 28, the Ministry of Labour said it had revised a number of provisions in the law, which is expected to be passed later this year. One of the most significant changes included lowering the minimum threshold for creating a union from 20 per cent of a factory’s workers to 10 people. While welcomed by pro-government unions, the changes were seen as conceding too little by labour activists.
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Police Arrest Sisters for Enslaving Niece for Sex
Two women were arrested in Phnom Penh on Monday for selling their 13-year-old niece to a local man as a sex slave, repeatedly shackling her to the floor of their house over the course of a year, municipal anti-human trafficking police chief Keo Thea said Tuesday.
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Cambodian PM backs out on election agreement
Cmbodia’s prime minister has reneged on a verbal agreement to hold the country’s next election -- due in 2018 -- five months early, also calling on opposition MPs to respond to potential summons over a violent rally last year. The election agreement was one of several bedrock factors upon which the pact between Hun Sen and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party’s president, Sam Rainsy, was sealed one year ago. Since then, the 55 CNRP lawmakers who had been boycotting their seats — over claims that the 2013 election outcome in favor of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party was a fraud — have taken them up. The two parties have also embarked upon an ambitious “culture of dialogue” to smooth over outstanding issues.
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Another Freedom Park Protester Arrested: City Hall
Authorities in Phnom Penh on Tuesday arrested another protester who took part in a demonstration at Freedom Park on July 15 last year that turned violent and has since been deemed an insurrection, City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said last night.
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Three more Cambodia activists held for 'insurrection'
PHNOM PENH - A Cambodian court Wednesday detained three more opposition activists for insurrection over their alleged roles in protests that turned violent last year, a move condemned as politically motivated by a rights group. A Cambodian opposition party activist (R) is escorted by police at the Phnom Penh municipal court on August 5, 2015 Last month 11 opposition members and activists were jailed on the same charges -- including three who received 20-year sentences. The legal moves against supporters of the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) stem from clashes between protesters and authorities in July last year during a demonstration against the closure of Freedom Park, a key site for public rallies in Phnom Penh.
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NGO Calls for Immediate Action to Stop Violence Against Women
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Rights group Adhoc has raised concerns about an increase in cases of violence against women and children throughout the country over the first six months of the year, and is calling on the government to take immediate action. Adhoc said it had received reports of 74 serious domestic violence cases, 90 cases of human trafficking, and 131 rapes. The organization said that the creation of Women and Children Consultative Committees has not been enough to effectively help victims.
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GMAC Frets About Cambodian Productivity
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – The Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) is warning that the Kingdom’s garment industry is “struggling” as a result of low productivity, labor unrest and rising wages. “Low productivity and ever higher wages will be a real challenge to the industry here as overseas buyers are becoming more discerning about productivity and competitiveness when they choose where to source their products,” GMAC secretary general Ken Loo said in a statement Monday. GMAC’s remarks come in the context of labor discussions about raising the minimum wage for garment workers from $128 to $177 per month. The industry has opposed the increase.
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Hun Sen Calls for Arrest of Fugitive Governor
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday urged police to arrest Chhouk Bundith, the former governor of Svay Rieng province’s Bavet City, who went on the run before being found guilty of shooting three garment workers three years ago.
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Workers due to end walk-out
Some 300 garment workers were due to end their strike today following three days of protest and negotiations with GIN-SOVAN Fashion Cambodia Limited factory management. The workers were protesting the dismissal of 23 colleagues as well as demanding improved working conditions at the Chinese-owned factory, located in Phnom Penh’s Thmey commune in Sen Sok district. After negotiations yesterday, the company agreed to give the sacked workers $30 in severance.
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Garment Factories Say Low Productivity Should Temper Raise
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia on Monday urged unions to moderate their demands in current negotiations over next year’s minimum wage for the garment industry, given the low productivity of Cambodian workers and their many paid days off compared with competing countries.
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Prime Minister Accuses NGOs of Stage Managing Protesters
Some NGOs in the country have helped hone the skills of performing artists by training protesters to deliver dramatic performances to the media during demonstrations, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday.
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Capitol bus strike continues
About 50 drivers for Capitol Tours Bus Company continued their strike yesterday, claiming the company asked them to sign new contracts that place their benefits and bonuses in jeopardy. The company denies the claims. Last Thursday the Arbitration Council and the Phnom Penh Municipal Court ordered the protesters to end a strike begun earlier in July over five fired union leaders, despite the company’s refusal to rehire the workers.
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