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Sam Rainsy Takes Up Case of Sex-Trafficked Cham Women
After visiting Tbong Khmum province over the weekend to canvass for support in Cham Muslim villages, opposition leader Sam Rainsy has taken up the case of two local women who say their daughters were trafficked into the sex trade in Malaysia. The CNRP president held a press conference Monday at his office at the National Assembly, where Mat Mary described how her 15-year-old daughter, along with a 23-year-old woman, left their village in Dambe district for Malaysia in November for what they thought was legitimate employment.
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PM takes to stump on legal limit to overtime
Prime Minister Hun Sen broached the long-running issue of excessive overtime worked by garment factory employees in a speech yesterday, in what at least one analyst saw as a possible play for garment worker support. During his commencement speech at the National University of Management, the premier appealed to factories in Cambodia’s garment and footwear sector to only allow employees to work two hours overtime per day, in accordance with the Labour Law.
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Licadho asked to show its data
Dismissing a recent report showing a sharp increase in land disputes, the government has said such conflicts are in fact decreasing and formally called on rights group Licadho to release its findings. Licadho reported last week that it recorded about three times as many new land complaints last year than in 2013, affecting more than 10,000 families across 13 provinces. “Urgent action is required to avert this continuing trend,” the group said at the time. But the government dismissed the findings, labelling them “fabricated”.
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Fifty Faint After Machine Catches Fire at Shoe Factory
About 50 female workers fainted at a shoe factory in Kompong Chhnang province Saturday when an embossing machine burst into flames, causing smoke and fumes to fill part of the plant, a union official said Sunday. Yin Sokhom, deputy president of the Free Trade Union at the Long Lead factory in Samakki Meanchey district’s Sethei commune, said the machine caught fire at about 1 p.m. on Saturday.
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Cadastral Body Rejects Land Dispute Figures
The Ministry of Land Management on Friday dismissed new figures from rights group Licadho indicating a dramatic surge in the number of families embroiled in land conflicts last year, claiming that disputes were in fact on the wane. In a report last week, Licadho said that its staff in the 13 mainly central and western provinces it monitors counted 10,625 families newly embroiled in new or existing land disputes in 2014, a three-fold increase over the year before.
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Gov’t Waits to Deport Activist With Expired Visa
An immigration official said Sunday that his department would wait for orders before moving to deport environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, whose visa the government refused to renew after it expired Friday. The government says it refused to renew the Spanish national’s visa because he and his NGO, Mother Nature, set up an illegal roadblock in September that temporarily obstructed a government convoy on its way into the Areng Valley in Koh Kong province, the site of a proposed hydropower dam the group opposes. Mr. Gonzalez-Davidson and his supporters suspect the government wants him out of the country because he has helped to stall the project.
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Activist Alex arrested
Outspoken environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson has been arrested by Interior Ministry officers and taken in an unmarked car to the Ministry of Interior, a rights group and witnesses have said. Cheang Sophos, a senior investigator for local rights group Licadho, said that Gonzalez-Davidson was arrested at about 1:15pm at the Fish & Co restaurant in the riverside area of Phnom Penh. The news was confirmed by a spokesman for the Community Legal Education Centre and a witness at the scene.
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Court Postpones Trial Over Brawl at Freedom Park
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has postponed today’s scheduled hearing of 11 people, including senior CNRP official Meach Sovannara, who were charged with insurrection and other crimes over a bloody scuffle at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park in July. The postponement was announced in a letter from deputy prosecutor Keo Socheat, dated Friday, which gives no explanation for the delay and provides no future date for the hearing. Mr. Socheat declined to comment on the delay when contacted Sunday.
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Villagers Speak Up as Reservoir Plan Digs Into Their Rice Fields
Villagers in Banteay Meanchey province on Saturday protested against a local military official’s plan to build a reservoir on their land, then sell the dirt at a profit. The reservoir is being dug over 52 hectares in Serei Saophoan City’s Kompong Svay commune by Brigadier General Plon Dara, commander of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces in Banteay Meanchey.
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Villagers Speak Up as Reservoir Plan Digs Into Their Rice Fields
Villagers in Banteay Meanchey province on Saturday protested against a local military official’s plan to build a reservoir on their land, then sell the dirt at a profit. The reservoir is being dug over 52 hectares in Serei Saophoan City’s Kompong Svay commune by Brigadier General Plon Dara, commander of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces in Banteay Meanchey.
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Gov’t Waits to Deport Activist With Expired Visa
An immigration official said Sunday that his department would wait for orders before moving to deport environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, whose visa the government refused to renew after it expired Friday. The government says it refused to renew the Spanish national’s visa because he and his NGO, Mother Nature, set up an illegal roadblock in September that temporarily obstructed a government convoy on its way into the Areng Valley in Koh Kong province, the site of a proposed hydropower dam the group opposes. Mr. Gonzalez-Davidson and his supporters suspect the government wants him out of the country because he has helped to stall the project.
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Clock ticks for activist
Embattled environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson has been formally asked to leave the country by the Ministry of the Interior after his visa expired last week. The anti-dam campaigner was told he would have to leave the country before the government could issue him with a new visa, a position Gonzalez-Davidson has said is merely a ploy to get him out of the country.
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Should I stay or should I go?
His visa has expired and the government wont renew it but dogged environmental activist Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson says he's going no where. The fluent Khmer speaking co-founder of the belligerent NGO Mother Nature has become something of a celebrity in the Kingdom and a thorn in the government's side. On the day that his visa expired, Gonzalez-Davidson sat down with State of Play and explained why he believes the government has nothing to gain by deporting him.
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Sanitation check-up
The Ministry of Education will ask government schools to provide information on toilet numbers, fresh water supply and vegetable gardens as part of efforts to tackle poor sanitation and nutrition discouraging students from attending class. The national survey, announced yesterday, would be used to identify where improvements were most needed, said Minister for Education Hang Chuon Noron.
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Prey Speu detention centre still going strong
Almost 450 people were rounded up from the capital’s streets last year and sent to the notorious Prey Speu social affairs centre, where in November a man died after being denied medical treatment, according to an annual report from Phnom Penh’s Social Affairs Department. According to the report, a total of 539 homeless people were rounded up in 2014, and 445 of them were sent to Prey Speu; a centre where, since its opening in 2004, staff have been accused of abuse, rape and even murder.
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New Land Disputes Tripled Last Year: Licadho
The number of families newly affected by land conflicts last year tripled to more than 10,000 in the 13 provinces where human rights group Licadho has monitors, the NGO said Thursday, following what it called a politically engineered lull in disputes the previous year.
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UN Hamstrung in Ratanakkiri as More Montagnards Arrive
Local officials in Ratanakkiri province are actively preventing a team of U.N. workers in the area from making any attempt to reach nearly 40 Montagnard asylum seekers now hiding in the province. Six more Montagnards crossed into the northern province from Vietnam on Tuesday, according to local officials and rights group Adhoc, fleeing what the asylum seekers claim is persecution by Hanoi for their religious practices and cooperation with a U.S.-based Montagnard advocacy group.
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Land disputes surge: Licadho
The number of families newly affected by land disputes last year was three times that of 2013, according to figures documented by local rights group Licadho. In a statement released yesterday, the group “strongly expresse[d] its concern” at the surge in disputes, noting that in 2014 alone, it documented an estimated 49,519 individuals who were newly affected by land conflicts. Licadho says complaints involving 10,625 families were registered last year, compared to 3,475 in 2013 and 5,672 in 2012.
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Senior Garment Workers Also Want Salary Raise
Thousands of garment workers at one Phnom Penh factory, and about 100 more at another, protested Thursday over the new minimum wage set for the garment sector late last year, upset that those already earning higher salaries were overlooked. After months of negotiations with unions and factories, the Labor Ministry decided in November to raise the monthly minimum wage for garment workers from $100 to $128. The new wage took effect in January, with the lowest paid workers picking up their first fattened pay checks this month.
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Chhouk Bandith still at large three years on
Three female garment workers who were shot by former Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith during a February 2012 factory demonstration called on the government yesterday to imprison the former politician, who has been on the run for three years as of today. In June 2013, Bandith was sentenced by the Svay Rieng Provincial Court to 18 months imprisonment for firing his gun into a crowd of 6,000 workers protesting at the Kaoway Sports Factory in Bavet town’s Manhattan Special Economic Zone and subsequently injuring the three women.
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