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Cambodia slams Human Rights Watch's Asia director for remarks on deceased ruling party chief
PHNOM PENH, (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has hit back at Brad Adams, Asia director of New York-based Human Rights Watch, for his critical comments toward recently-deceased ruling party chief and Senate president Chea Sim, saying Adams' remarks "distort fact and imply personal anger." The reaction came after Adams released an article on the Human Rights Watch's website on June 8, the day Chea Sim died, accusing him of committing crime and abusing rights and freedom of the citizens during the Democratic Kampuchea, or Khmer Rouge regime.
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Cops try to dismantle B Chhouk residences
Local authorities armed with axes and hammers on Saturday attempted to dismantle homes in the capital’s Russey Keo district to make way for a new road that they hope will ease traffic, according to villagers. Residents of Boeung Chhouk village said that the district’s deputy governor, Chea Pisey, led around 20 police officers and security guards to the area and ordered them to thumbprint a letter stating that they were living there illegally.
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Government Announces Start of Garment Sector Wage Talks
The Labor Ministry on Friday 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.
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Montagnards May Get Asylum-seeker Status
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – The government may recognize the more than 100 Montagnard asylum seekers in the capital as refugees, a senior official at the Interior Ministry has said. Major General Uk Heisela, chief investigator at the Ministry of Interior's Immigration Department, told Khmer Times, that if the UN recognized them as an ethnic group his ministry would too. If the “United Nations calls these people Montagnards and recognizes them as Montagnards, as part of an ethnic group, then we will recognize them as Montagnards as well,” he said.
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Promoting Meaningful Reforms in Cambodia
The Montagnard refugee dilemma continued to make news this week, as many here in Cambodia and in the international community remain concerned about the status of those seeking asylum. According to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, there are currently more than one hundred Montagnards in Phnom Penh who are seeking to register for asylum. The media also reports that a significant number of Montagnards now in Cambodia have not been registered or are not pursuing asylum due to concerns about due process and the rule of law, leaving them in legal limbo. This situation provides Cambodia with an opportunity to demonstrate a responsive and rules-based process that provides a positive example for other countries.
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Post-Election Work ‘Diplomacy at Its Best’: US
The U.S. State Department said in congressional testimony on Thursday that its involvement in ending the political deadlock following the 2013 election was “diplomacy at its best,” and also claimed partial credit for this year’s raise in garment worker wages and the release of activists from prison.
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Ministry tells Vietnam to back off in border dispute
Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has demanded Vietnam stop encroaching into disputed border regions, citing five “illegal” irrigation ponds in Ratanakkiri province “dug deep inside Cambodian territory”. In a letter to the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh, the ministry urged Vietnam to cease working in Pak Nhay Commune, O Yadav district, an area recently highlighted by opposition lawmakers as an example of Vietnamese encroachment on the border.
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Government Tells Vietnam to ‘Respect the Borderline’
The Foreign Affairs Ministry sent a strongly worded diplomatic note to Vietnam on Friday asking its eastern neighbor to “respect the borderline” after an inspection by government officials confirmed that Vietnamese authorities dug five ponds within Cambodian territory in Ratanakiri province. The letter, dated June 12 and circulated to members of the National Assembly as well as being sent to the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh, says that an inspection by the Interior Ministry and the Cambodian Joint Border Commission found that the ponds had been “dug deep in Cambodian territory.”
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World Day Against Child Labour: The Plight of Child Labourers in Cambodian Brick Factories
To commemorate June 12 World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) 2015, LICADHO is publishing personal testimonies of five children and one adult who work in Cambodian brick factories in Or Raing Ov district, Tbong Khmum province and Preah Prosob village, Kandal province. These testimonies provide a glimpse into brick factory child labour, which is considered to be one of the worst forms of child labour, and demonstrate the negative effects of brick factory child labour on children. One adult testimony has been included to give context to the children’s stories, and to illustrate some of the underlying causes of child labour in brick factories.
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G7 leaders’ commitment to human rights in supply chains must be followed by action – UN expert group
GENEVA (12 June 2015) – The United Nations Working Group on business and human rights welcomes the commitment made by G7 leaders this week in Germany to promote labour rights, decent working conditions and environmental protection in global supply chains. The declaration from the G7 leaders’ summit highlighted unsafe and poor working conditions among the top challenges facing the world economy. It expressed strong support to the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights* as a way to overcome challenges. “We welcome this unprecedented show of commitment from the highest level in some of the world’s major economies to improve business conduct in supply chains,” said human rights expert Michael Addo, who currently heads the expert group. “Now, this commitment must be translated into concrete action to ensure transparency and accountability.”
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Cambodian Government Accuses Vietnam of Creating Ponds on Its Territory
Cambodia’s foreign ministry sent a letter of protest to the Vietnamese government on Friday over a border issue in Ratanakiri province, accusing its neighbor of digging five ponds in a sector where the official borderline between the two nations has yet to be demarcated. The letter, a copy of which was obtained by RFA’s Khmer Service, said authorities in the remote northeastern province discovered the five-meter-by-13-meter (16.4-feet-by-42.7 feet) ponds dug by Vietnamese authorities in Cambodian territory between border pillars in Lom village, Pak Nhay commune, in O Yadav district.
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Beaten Garment Workers File Police Complaints
Three members of the Free Trade Union on Thursday filed complaints against members of a rival union for allegedly beating them with bamboo sticks and banana tree branches during a clash outside Phnom Penh’s SH International garment factory on Wednesday morning.
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Three workers charged with gang rape of girl, 17
Three men were charged with gang raping a minor by the Prey Veng Provincial Court yesterday and are now awaiting trial in provincial prison, police said yesterday. Nov Harch, chief of Mesang district police, said the men were arrested on Tuesday afternoon at a canal construction site following a complaint made by the victim’s parents. He identified the suspects, who all worked as excavator drivers at the site, as San Rattana, 25, Seang Samut, 24, and Thuch Novy, 30.
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Over 100 Protest in Support of Families Cut Out of Rail Deal
More than 100 people protested Thursday outside Poipet City Hall in support of 50 families in Phsar Kandal commune who were passed over when the government offered compensation to residents who ceded land for a railway project that displaced some 4,000 families across the country.
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Hundreds of thousands without Thai work papers
With less than three weeks left until the deadline, over 300,000 Cambodian migrants registered in Thailand have not completed the verification process necessary to receive work visas, raising the possibility of a repeat of last year’s mass exodus.
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Cambodia deports 700 Illegal immigrants, nabs Vietnamese spies in border row
Cambodia has deported 700 illegal immigrants in the past six months, the ministry of interior said on Thursday, as the detention of Vietnamese border guards who disguised themselves as local police to spy on a meeting underscored Phnom Penh’s difficulty in controlling its borders. Ouk Hai Seila, head of the ministry’s immigration investigation bureau, told RFA’s Khmer Service authorities had deported 500 Vietnamese and 200 Chinese illegal immigrants since late 2014. Most had come seeking work in construction, he said.
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Australian Teacher Sentenced to Five Years for Abusing Six Boys
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced an Australian man to five years in prison Thursday for sexually abusing six boys between the ages of 3 and 13 in 2013 and 2014.
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Millions in Asia’s Child Labor Force Denied Basic Rights
Across Cambodia, more than 660,000 children aged 5 to 17 are engaged in child labor, many of whom were trafficked. Their right to safety and protection has been severely compromised. They work for low or no wages. Some work under the threat of violence. They are forgoing their education and their childhood.
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Judge, Prosecutor Sue Human Rights Advocate for Defamation
Officials at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court and Justice Ministry on Thursday confirmed that a prosecutor and judge in Siem Reap are suing human rights advocate Ny Chakrya for defamation over a complaint he filed against them last month.
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Unions eye wage discussion
Negotiations for next year’s minimum wage in Cambodia’s garment and footwear sector are already gearing up, as union leaders prepare to meet this month to discuss what wage they will demand.
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