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Redress sought from local gov’t
Villagers representing 72 families in Mondulkiri province’s Keo Seima district yesterday demanded compensation from the local governor after he allegedly led armed security forces to burn down their homes on June 11. The complaints were submitted to the district and provincial governments against Keo Seima District Governor Sin Vanvuth and contained evidence that he had led the forced eviction, according to village representative Vit Phanna.
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Hundreds strike at K Speu garment factory
Workers at A & J Carter (Cambodia) Limited in Kampong Speu province’s Samrong Tong district protested outside the factory yesterday, continuing a strike that began five days ago. Some 500 employees walked off the job on Thursday after management terminated the contracts of three Free Trade Union (FTU) officials, said Sok Chan, one of the union officers who was sacked in early June.
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Hundreds strike at K Speu garment factory
Workers at A & J Carter (Cambodia) Limited in Kampong Speu province’s Samrong Tong district protested outside the factory yesterday, continuing a strike that began five days ago. Some 500 employees walked off the job on Thursday after management terminated the contracts of three Free Trade Union (FTU) officials, said Sok Chan, one of the union officers who was sacked in early June.
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Two Montagnards Hide Out in Northeastern Cambodia
Two more ethnic Montagnards from Vietnam are in hiding in a remote northeastern province in Cambodia, two days after villagers there helped six others reach United Nations refugee agency personnel in the capital to seek asylum, local residents said Tuesday. One of the two Montagnards—Christian indigenous people from Vietnam’s Central Highlands who say they are fleeing political and religious persecution in their home country—was among others who previously made it to Cambodia, but were deported back to Vietnam, said local villager Sev Sving of Oyadaw district in Ratanakiri province.
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Walmart’s black mark
Cambodian workers producing garments for global retail giant Walmart say they are subjected to a slew of workplace abuses ranging from forced labour to sexual harassment. Employees at numerous Walmart supplier factories across the country have made the allegations, which were compiled in a recent study exposing the brand’s “heinous abuses” in three of the major countries in its Asian supply chain – Cambodia, India and Indonesia.
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Walmart’s black mark
Cambodian workers producing garments for global retail giant Walmart say they are subjected to a slew of workplace abuses ranging from forced labour to sexual harassment. Employees at numerous Walmart supplier factories across the country have made the allegations, which were compiled in a recent study exposing the brand’s “heinous abuses” in three of the major countries in its Asian supply chain – Cambodia, India and Indonesia.
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Farmer Says Montagnards Crossed River
An ethnic Jarai villager in Ratanakkiri province said Monday that two men claiming to be Montagnard asylum seekers approached him on his farm on Sunday looking for help after swimming across the Sesan River to escape Vietnamese police three days earlier.
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Controversial NGO Law Goes to National Assembly for Debate
PHNOM PENH—Despite widespread concern it could curtail pro-democracy and rights work in the country, a bill to regulate NGOs in Cambodia arrived at the National Assembly Tuesday, where it must be debated before its likely passage into law. International and local rights groups, as well as diplomats, have said the law is not necessary and could be used as a tool to hamper the work of organizations critical of the government.
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R’kiri land protesters make case for fence
Five local representatives from Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district were questioned in court on Friday, following accusations from a Vietnamese company of unlawful land-grabbing, according to NGO Adhoc and community representatives
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Ponhea Leu’s Village Residents Seek Intervention in Their Land Dispute
On 15 June 2015, over 50 village residents from Kandal’s Ponhea Leu district marched to the National Assembly and the Office of Prime Minister Hun Sen to hand in their petition , seeking intervention in their land dispute with SKD. Kuy Chanthorn, one of village residents gathered in front of the National Assembly, said five village residents were allowed to meet the opposition member of parliament Chan Cheng in the compound of the National Assembly before they moved on to the Office of Prime Minister Hun Sen in front of Botum pagoda in order to submit their petition.
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Acid attack on sister over affair allegation
A 25-year-old woman was arrested in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district yesterday for allegedly throwing acid on her 17-year-old sister after discovering that the victim and her husband had been having an illicit relationship behind her back. Suspect Pov Pisey was immediately apprehended by police after a neighbour saw her attack her younger sister Pov Srey Neang with acid, according to Por Sen Chey district police chief Yem Saran.
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Curtailing civil society in the Kingdom
Several laws currently under consideration are threatening to bring about the end of free civil society in Cambodia. Several others have recently been passed, radically reforming our judiciary and rules governing electoral campaigning in a manner that centralises power in the executive branch and erodes the checks and balances that a healthy democracy requires.
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Curtailing civil society in the Kingdom
Several laws currently under consideration are threatening to bring about the end of free civil society in Cambodia. Several others have recently been passed, radically reforming our judiciary and rules governing electoral campaigning in a manner that centralises power in the executive branch and erodes the checks and balances that a healthy democracy requires.
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Gov’t rebukes HRW director
As the ruling party prepares this week to elect a president and deputy president following Chea Sim’s death on June 8, the Ministry of Information has lashed out at an international rights group that last week linked Sim to Khmer Rouge abuses. Though he was lauded by some as a national hero, New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Sim of committing “serious international crimes” during his years as a Khmer Rouge official.
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Time to end slavery on Thai fishing boats
Aung is a farmer from Myanmar who ended up enslaved on a Thai fishing boat for two years. His story is an all-too-common example of how vulnerable migrants from Myanmar and Cambodia are trafficked by unscrupulous recruiters and fishing boat captains to produce seafood that ends up on supermarket shelves in Asia, the US and Europe.
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Comfrel launches online tool for change
Democracy watchdog Comfrel yesterday rolled out a new website intended to help young workers garner support for a variety of causes. At a forum at Phnom Penh’s Khemarak University yesterday, Comfrel’s youth empowerment officer Phok Srey Pich presented the “Youth Voice: Cambodia’s youth in action for Change” website, accessible at YVKhmer.org.
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Acid attack on sister over affair allegation
A 25-year-old woman was arrested in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district yesterday for allegedly throwing acid on her 17-year-old sister after discovering that the victim and her husband had been having an illicit relationship behind her back.
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Woman Splashes Acid on Pregnant Sister Over Affair
A woman was arrested in Phnom Penh on Sunday after dousing her pregnant sister with acid in retaliation for an affair the victim was reportedly having with the suspect’s husband, police said.
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Interior Ministry Wants HRW Director Barred From Cambodia
Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said Sunday that prominent human rights campaigner Brad Adams would be barred from entering Cambodia if he did not apologize for a statement last week in which he argued that CPP President Chea Sim should have been investigated for crimes he allegedly committed as a Khmer Rouge official.
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Cambodia garment sector wage talks to start in July
Cambodia’s labour ministry has announced that formal negotiations to set a new minimum wage for the country’s all-important garment sector - now at $128 a month - will begin in July, reviving the same schedule for talks it used with unions and employers for the first time last year, the country’s newspapers have reported. The ministry adopted the new multi-step process in mid-2014, following a string of particularly disruptive strikes over garment sector wages the preceding December and January that briefly brought the industry to a halt and ended with the fatal shooting of at least five workers by military police in Phnom Penh.
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