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Tribunal Hears Vietnam Returnee Recount Abuse by Khmer Rouge
A rice farmer who fled to Vietnam just before Pol Pot’s forces took power in 1975 described to the Khmer Rouge tribunal on Thursday the shock he and other refugees felt when they returned to live in Democratic Kampuchea, where they were abused and labeled “puppets of the Yuon.”
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Three new refugees file claims
Three Montagnards, including a 10-year-old girl, arrived yesterday morning at the government’s Refugee Department in Phnom Penh to process their asylum claims. Wan-Hea Lee, country representative of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, confirmed that OHCHR “helped to transport them . . . to the Refugee Department for registration”.
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Nine Montagnard Asylum Seekers Join 23 Others in Ratanakkiri
Nine more Montagnard asylum seekers crossed into Ratanakkiri on Tuesday, bringing the total number hiding in the province’s O’Yadaw district to 32, a police official said Wednesday. “I have received information about the arrival of the new group, but we don’t have any specific information about those people,” said deputy provincial police chief Heng Rattana, adding that the Montagnards arrived Tuesday.
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Protesters Demand Release of Jailed Activists
Some 200 representatives of 16 communities from across the country on Wednesday marched through Phnom Penh dropping off copies of a petition calling for the release of 11 jailed anti-eviction activists and an end to state-sanctioned violence against villagers in land disputes. The protesters first submitted the petition to the Interior Ministry at about 11:30 a.m. before making their way to the Justice Ministry, the Appeal Court and the Supreme Court.
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Union registration debated
In a wide-ranging annual report released yesterday, Minister of Labour Ith Sam Heng deflected union complaints that the ministry had made it excessively difficult to register, noting that Cambodia has about 3,000 registered unions. Union leaders and advocates continue to criticise the ministry, saying it has used criminal background checks to stymie registration efforts. But in the report, Sam Heng says the checks – which are carried out by the Ministry of Justice – are necessary to make sure that union leaders with criminal records don’t slide by.
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Land dispute hearing delayed due to illness
Evictees at war with their former representative filed a complaint yesterday with the Ministry of Justice after the woman at the centre of the argument managed to put off a court hearing, allegedly going to the disputed site instead. Chea Sarom led the Phnom Penh Thmey commune villagers – who were forcibly evicted from their homes in 2005 – to victory in 2011, when the Supreme Court ruled that they owned the land.
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Labor Minister Says Unions Have No Reason to Complain
Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng on Wednesday denied recent claims from a group of disgruntled unions that the government was making it nearly impossible to register branches at garment factories, and announced a new push to bring noncompliant factories in line with Cambodia’s labor laws. Last month, a group of eight unions held a joint press conference to complain that the Labor Ministry rejected every single one of their applications to register branches inside of garment factories in 2014 and accused the government of blocking them at the behest of the employers.
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Thai Soldiers Shoot Dead Three Loggers, Officials Say
Thai soldiers shot and killed three Cambodian loggers and seriously injured a fourth last week after the group illegally crossed into Thailand from Preah Vihear province in search of valuable timber, officials said Wednesday. Chhour Bunsong, military police commander in Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district, which borders Thailand’s Ubon Ratchathani province, said residents of Choam Ksan commune’s remote Chhoeu Tel Kong village reported the shooting Friday morning.
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Protest pagoda under scrutiny
Dozens of police and municipal authorities descended upon Samaki Rainsy pagoda yesterday for an investigation into allegation of illegal activity at the complex, whose monks have been fixture at protests associated with land rights advocates and the opposition party, among other causes.
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Despite Show of Force, Pagoda Visit Peaceful
Deputy Phnom Penh governor Khuong Sreng on Tuesday reversed course on a City Hall announcement that it was investigating Wat Samakki Raingsey over alleged anti-government behavior and secessionist designs, comments that sparked fears among its monks that the independent-minded pagoda would be shut down.
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UN Human Rights Office launches major online database of treaty body case law - See more at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=15560&LangID=E#sthash.jCG4Ac26.dpuf
GENEVA (11 February 2015) – The UN Human Rights Office has launched a major public online database, http://juris.ohchr.org, http://juris.ohchr.org/ that contains all case law issued by the UN human rights expert committees, the Treaty Bodies. “The database is designed to be a key reference tool for scholars, lawyers, civil society organisations, governments and civil servants, our UN partners and the general public,” said Ibrahim Salama, Director of the UN Human Rights Treaties Division. “Just as importantly, we hope it may help individuals who are preparing to submit complaints to the committees by giving them access to the views and decisions taken by the expert members on specific human rights issues.” - See more at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=15560&LangID=E#sthash.jCG4Ac26.dpuf
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Australian, 53, tried for sexually abusing boys
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday began hearing the case of an Australian teacher accused of raping six boys between the ages of 3 and 11 whom he allegedly groomed for victimhood. “Since 2013, the suspect George Moussallie comforted many poor and street boys who were juveniles, [and asked them] to eat food with him and took them to buy clothes for them. But ultimately, he brought them to visit and stay at his rental house,” said presiding judge Kor Vandy.
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Former Teacher Denies Child Sex Abuse Charges
An Australian teacher charged with sexually abusing six young boys claimed during the first day of his trial at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court Tuesday that an anti-pedophile NGO framed him. George Moussallie, 52, a former English teacher at the American Pacific School in Phnom Penh, was charged in September with molesting and having sex with children under the age of 15. The alleged abuse occurred at the defendant’s rented home in Daun Penh district.
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Gov’t Announces New Plan to Stop Violence Against Women
As violence against women remains pervasive throughout the country, the government on Tuesday launched a second action plan that it hopes will help give women greater protection. The National Action Plan to Prevent Violence Against Women 2014-2018 focuses on preventing gender-based violence and aims to provide greater legal protection and services to women who are victims of it. Women’s Affairs Minister Ing Kantha Phavi said during a speech at the launch of the new initiative at the InterContinental Hotel that it is a follow-up to a similar one that ran between 2009 and 2012.
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One convicted on rape and abduction charges
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday handed down a verdict in the case of two security guards accused of abducting, detaining and raping an 11-year-old girl, finding one guilty, but determining that his alleged accomplice was not, due to a lack of evidence. Presiding judge Kor Vandy found defendant Norng Vichetr, 46, guilty of the illegal detention of a human being and rape with aggravating circumstances, sentencing him to seven years in prison and ordering him to pay 8 million riel (about $2,000) in compensation to the victim. Co-defendant Chhory Bunthoeun, 35, was acquitted as an accomplice.
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CNRP treads too softly: NGOs
Activists and NGO workers who have long agitated for political change in Cambodia, a goal which the opposition, Have expressed frustration with the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s current soft political approach towards the ruling Cambodia People’s Party.
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Protest pagoda under scrutiny
Dozens of police and municipal authorities descended upon Samaki Rainsy pagoda yesterday for an investigation into allegation of illegal activity at the complex, whose monks have been fixture at protests associated with land rights advocates and the opposition party, among other causes.
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Uncertainty over death of activist
Rights group Adhoc is investigating the death of an opposition party activist this weekend in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town. The body of Bun Borin, 35, was brought to Poipet referral hospital at 3am on Sunday by two people who ran away, Adhoc’s provincial coordinator Suom Chankea said. Borin had been drinking with the pair – who were later questioned by police and let go – and a man called Prak Savorn, who told police he and the victim had gotten into a fight, Chankea added.
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‘Protest pagoda’ under scrutiny
Dozens of police and municipal authorities descended upon Samaki Rainsy pagoda yesterday for an investigation into allegations of illegal activity at the complex, whose monks have been fixtures at protests associated with land rights advocates and the opposition party, among other causes. Throngs of onlookers recording videos on smartphones and tablets gathered around Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Khuong Sreng and the pagoda’s acting chief monk, Thach Hasam-Ang, as the former inspected documents of each of the approximately 50 monks living there.
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Plans to fight gender-based abuse heard
After consultations with hundreds of survivors, the government yesterday launched its latest strategy to battle entrenched practices of gender-based violence. Moving beyond the awareness-raising focus of its predecessor policy, the newly inaugurated Second National Action Plan on the Prevention of Violence Against Women 2014-2018 aims instead to coordinate prevention strategies and service responses for female survivors. During more than a dozen national-level consultations before the launch of the action plan, victims of violence reported difficulties in accessing legal protection, health care and counseling, according to a UN Women assessment.
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