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Refugee resettlement: Cambodian officials visit Nauru
CAMBODIAN officials will soon visit Nauru to speak with refugees about permanently resettling in the southeast Asian nation, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton says. Mr Dutton, who is attending meetings with Cambodian officials in Phnom Penh, said arrangements to resettle an initial cohort of asylum-seekers was expected within weeks.
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Tuk-tuk driver found guilty of rape
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced a 34-year-old tuk-tuk driver to six years in prison for raping a 12-year-old girl multiple times from 2012 to 2014. Presiding judge Im Vannak said that driver Hou Vanna was guilty on charges of having sexual intercourse with a minor under 15 years old.
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Systematic’ Labor Abuse at Garment Plants, Group Finds
Forced overtime, child labor, union busting, abuse of short-term contracts and shadowy sub-contracted factories remain rampant in the country’s $5.75 billion garment sector amid “dismal” government oversight, the U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in a new report.
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Land sales forced, say families
Thirty-two families in Kampong Chhnang’s Teuk Phos district filed a complaint to rights group Adhoc yesterday, reporting they had been pressured by local authorities to sell their land for just $150 per hectare. The land is being accumulated by a man seeking to develop it as a cassava plantation who has bought over 1,000 hectares. “I want to keep the land to farm and support my family in the future,” said 40-year-old resident Chan San. He said the local authorities told him that if he didn’t agree to move, they would force him to.
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Court Orders Family off Khun Sear’s Land: Lawyer
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday sided with real estate tycoon Khun Sear and his eponymous company in a longstanding land dispute with a family living adjacent to an apartment block he obtained in a land swap, the family’s lawyer said Thursday. Ly Sreang Kheng, 58, the father of the family, has been leading the battle against the company for the past five years and said Thursday that he planned to remain on the land in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kok district despite the court’s decision.
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Ministry Sold Land From Under 163 Families
The day before a hectare of land in Phnom Penh was set to be divided among 163 families who won a rare land-dispute victory over a wealthy businesswoman, the Agriculture Ministry on Wednesday issued a letter claiming it gave the entire plot to a construction firm in 2009. The families were granted the 9,982-square-meter plot in Sen Sok district by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in 2007 following a dispute with local businesswoman Keo Neam. Mr. Neam unsuccessfully challenged the municipal court’s decision, which was upheld by the Appeal Court in 2008 and by the Supreme Court in 2011.
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Oz minister defends plan
Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has heaped praise on the Cambodian government, which last month deported dozens of Montagnard asylum seekers back to Vietnam, as a “very responsible” partner in refugee resettlement.
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Top garment brands slammed over Cambodian factory conditions
Garment makers supplying H&M, Armani and Gap and others are evading norms laid out by the UN’s International Labour Organisation (ILO), thanks to loopholes and poor oversight, Human Rights Watch said. Factories allegedly discriminate against pregnant workers, mandate overtime, pursue anti-union measures, hire minors, and use short-term contacts to avoid addressing workers’ needs, according to the report titled Work Faster or Get Out: Labour Rights Abuses in Cambodia’s Garment Industry, released Thursday.
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Cambodian Women on the Front Line: Six Stories of Resistance
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2015 LICADHO, together with the Highlanders Association of Cambodia, organised a forum in Ban Lung, Ratanakiri for people affected by land grabbing. The forum was attended by over 100 representatives from eight different indigenous communities from within Ratanakiri and by land rights activists from other provinces around the country. The theme of the forum was the effect of land conflicts on women and the majority of the participants were women
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Refugees must enter legally: gov’t
A senior refugee department official has said that ethnic Jarai Montagnards fleeing alleged persecution in neighbouring Vietnam need to enter Cambodia via official checkpoints in order to register as asylum seekers on arrival.
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Cambodia, Aust to finalise refugee deal
Refugees in Nauru can expect a visit from Cambodian officials in the next few weeks sounding out those interested in resettling in the Asian nation. Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said the governments of Australia and Cambodia were pressing ahead with the agreement announced last year and set to be finalised in coming weeks.
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Labour abuses swelling: report
Systemic labour violations, union busting and corruption are the norm in Cambodia’s garment sector, according to a report released yesterday by Human Rights Watch. Titled Work Faster or Get Out, the 140-page report details the substandard working conditions faced by employees of exporting garment factories and their sub-contractors. Through interviews with 340 people – including factory representatives and 270 garment workers at 73 factories – HRW concluded that the government, clothing brands and third-party monitors have failed to stem a variety of entrenched violations to Cambodian and international labour standards.
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Land sales forced, say families
Thirty-two families in Kampong Chhnang’s Teuk Phos district filed a complaint to rights group Adhoc yesterday, reporting they had been pressured by local authorities to sell their land for just $150 per hectare. The land is being accumulated by a man seeking to develop it as a cassava plantation who has bought over 1,000 hectares.
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National Assembly to Pass Two New Election Laws Next Week
Deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha said on Thursday that the National Assembly will meet next week to debate and pass the country’s two new election laws in order for the new National Election Committee (NEC) to be established before the Khmer New Year. Mr. Sokha, who is also National Assembly vice president, told reporters outside Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison that he hoped the expedited process would allow the new laws to come into force by April 13.
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Swedish fashion giant faces child labour claims
Organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized, among others, Swedish retailer H&M over alleged child labour and poor work conditions in its Cambodian factories, in a report published on Thursday. In the report, which also mentions international brands such as Adidas, Marks and Spencer and Gap, HRW interviews workers at 73 factories in Cambodia and many tell of forced overtime, few opportunities to take a break, and of sexual harassment.
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Montagnards ‘missing’
Four of the 36 Jarai Montagnards deported last month have “disappeared” from their village in Vietnam’s central highlands, prompting fears among villagers that they may have been detained by the authorities. The group of 36 Montagnards was deported on the night of February 24 after attempting to travel from Ratanakkiri to Phnom Penh in order to seek asylum.
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Clothes retailers accused of labour abuses in Cambodia
Human Rights Watch says it has uncovered alleged abuses at Cambodian garment factories that supply Marks & Spencer, Gap, H&M, Adidas and Armani. The pressure group found evidence of discrimination and anti-union practices, it says. It believes that short-term contracts can prevent workers from asserting their rights. HRW says it also found evidence of people being forced to work overtime and discrimination against pregnant women.
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Court Delays Questioning of Anti-Dam Activist
The Koh Kong Provincial Court has agreed to a request to delay the questioning of an anti-dam activist accused of illegally felling trees to build a community center in the Areng Valley. Ven Vorn—an ethnic Chong who has joined local protests organized by the NGO Mother Nature to oppose a proposed hydropower dam that would flood the valley and force hundreds of Chong families to leave their ancestral lands—was summoned by the provincial court earlier this month and asked to appear for questioning Wednesday.
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Court Official to Enforce Verdict In Long-Running Land Dispute
A court prosecutor and a squadron of police will today descend on a hectare of land in Phnom Penh in order to properly divide it among 163 families who claim that one woman monopolized the plot after they won it in a land dispute, an official said Wednesday.
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Women have it hardest in Cambodia's apparel industry: Report
The Cambodian government is failing to protect garment workers - mostly women - from labour rights abuses, the independent New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its latest report.
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