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Pressure Mounts for Cambodian Election Reform
PHNOM PENH, WASHINGTON DC - Two election monitoring groups have added their voice to growing pressure for election reforms of the government’s National Election Committee, telling reporters in Phnom Penh Thursday that the country risks low voter turnout and eroded confidence if it continues on its path to the July polls.
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Index Data Spotlight: Freedom of Expression
Earlier this week, we introduced the Index Data Spotlight, a new Justice Rising blog series showcasing original WJP Rule of Law Index® data. Each week, we will highlight our survey data in interactive charts and infographics like the one you see below. Today, in honor of World Press Freedom Day, our Index Data Spotlight focuses on freedom of opinion and expression. The interactive map below shows country scores from the WJP Rule of Law Index 2012-2013 on subfactor 4.4 in the Index: "Freedom of opinion and expression is effectively guaranteed." 1 signifies the highest score; 0 signifies the lowest. Countries shown in dark red scored among the lowest, and countries in dark green scored among the highest.
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Cambodia Falls In Press Freedom Ranking
Cambodia’s media is less free than it was a year ago, according to a global report published by Washington-based think tank Freedom House to coincide with the 20th World Press Freedom Day today.
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Cambodian Media ‘Not Free,’ US Watchdog Says
WASHINGTON DC - Cambodia’s media environment has again earned the rating of “not free” by the US-based watchdog Freedom House, for the jailing in 2012 of independent radio station owner Mam Sonando and a continually threatening environment for journalists. Freedom House President David Kramer told reporters in Washington on Wednesday that countries who earn the rating “not free” fail to meet criteria for legal, political or economic freedom of the press.
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Land Concession Evictees Petition Hun Sen for Help
Representatives of 157 families evicted in 2010 from a social land concession in Preah Vihear province belonging to businessman Pen Lim, a one-time adviser to Senate President Chea Sim, were in Phnom Penh yesterday to petition Prime Minister Hun Sen.
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Workers Take to the Streets to Mark Labor Day
Several thousand workers marched down Phnom Penh Sisowath Quay yesterday demanding higher wage, stronger protection of their rights and reform of the country’s judiciary in what was the largest gathering of Cambodia’s labor unions in almost three years.
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Sven Loggers Return But Other Still Missing
Seven men from a group of 11 who were allegedly shot at by Thai security force while illegally logging in Thailand early Friday morning have returned home safety, while the other four remain missing, a police official in Oddar Meanchey province said yesterday.
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Group Says Release Chea Vichea’s Convicted Killers
Amnesty International yesterday called for the immediate release of two men widely believed to have been wrongly convicted of the 2004 murder of popular union leader Chea Vichea.
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Illegal Logging Threatens UN’s Carbon Trading Project
The Military’s ongoing clearing of community forests in Oddar Meanchey province risks derailing Cambodia’s first forest-based carbon trading scheme backed by the U.N., according to the latest assessment of the project.
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Hun Sen criticizes analysts over broadcast of recording
KAMPONG CHAM (The Cambodia Herald) – Hun Sen criticized and responded to some analysts who blamed the Press and Quick Reaction Unit for broadcasting a recording of a conversation between two opposition party leaders. Analysts considered the broadcast of the recording between Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha, Human Rights Party leader, as a mistake of the government and the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP).
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Panel of Judges Order Reinvestigation of Journalist’s Murder
The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court is to once again investigate the September murder of journalist Hamg Serei Odom, after judge found that the original investigation of a military police captain and his wife had turned up little evidence.
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Cambodian Election Body Asked to Meet Two Basic Conditions
Cambodia's election watchdog and human rights groups on Thursday demanded that the national election body post a list of voters for upcoming crucial elections in all villages and involve key political parties in the supervison of the polling process. The National Election Committee (NEC) has to meet the two basic conditions for "free, fair and legitimate elections," officials of the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (COMFREL) and the Neutral and Impartial Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (NICFEC) and human rights groups LICADHO and ADHOC told a joint news conference in Phnom Penh.
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NRP warns second demonstration if requests not met
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The National Rescue Party (NRP) will hold another demonstration to demand for the reforms of National Election Committee (NEC), Ho Vann, senior official of the NRP, told reporters Thursday. He said the protest this month will march to present petitions to officials of the European Union (EU) and the United Nations to ask these two major international institutions to urge changes in the NEC.
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In Zambia, Cambodia, Nigeria, Domestic Violence Is Less and Less OK
For all the dastardly, no-good ideas we see spreading today (jihad, jeggings, kamehameha-ing), it’s reassuring to learn that some genuinely good ideas seem to be catching on, too. Case in point: the growing rejection of domestic violence around the world. In a study published last week, University of Michigan doctoral student Rachael Pierotti finds that between 2003 and 2008, acceptance of the justifications for domestic violence in 26 different countries—and not just the Luxembourgs and Monacos of the world, but low- and middle-income countries like the Dominican Republic, Zambia, and Cambodia—fell off a cliff.
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Cambodia, Thai to meet over joint-security force along border
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Long Visalor, Cambodia’s Secretary of State at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, will lead a delegation to meet Jullapong Nonsrichai, Thailand Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, at Banteay Meanchey province on May 8th . Next week talks between the two delegations aims to manage a joint-security force to guard along the Cambodia-Thai border to prevent the flow of Cambodian citizens illegally crossing the border into Thailand to log and also to avoid them being shot and killed by Thai soldiers while they are crossing, according to the announcement of the Spokesman of Cambodia’s Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on Tuesday.
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Workers petition parliament and government on Labor Day
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- Around 10,000 workers from about 100 unions in Cambodia met Wednesday morning to mark International Labor Day on May 1st. After the mass rally at Democratic Park, union workers marched to the National Assembly and the government to present petitions. The workers were led by Ath Thon, President of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers' Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) and Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions.
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Vancouver man charged as sex tourist in Cambodia
Canadian Vijai Indra Deo Kumar is in a Cambodian jail charged with sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl. The 70-year-old, who is believed to be from Vancouver, was arrested in Siem Reap, best known as the site of huge Angkor Wat temple and increasingly known as a destination for so-called sex tourists. Until his arrest, Kumar had been planning to return to Canada on May 16.
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NEC to meet parties, NGOs over election registration
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The National Election Committee (NEC) said Tuesday it will hold a meeting with representatives from different political parties and non-government organizations over party registrations for upcoming election. The meeting to take place Friday will be held at its headquarters in the Ministry of Interior and will be headed by Havan Sivilay, a member of the NEC. The registration for July’s general election started on April 29 and will last for 15 days until May 13.
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Garment Workers Gather To Demand More Wages, Better Conditions
PHNOM PENH - Thousands of garment workers gathered in a demonstration in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to demand better salaries and improved working conditions for the hundreds of thousands of workers in Cambodia’s factories. Workers say a government increase of the minimum wage, to $80 per month, is not enough to keep up with the rising cost of living in the country.
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ADHOC says activists at risk
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) said, activists are at risk because of their participation in protecting and promoting human rights. A statement issued Tuesday said, 234 human rights defenders in 2012 were threatened, scared and faced lawsuits, while the first quarter of 2013, 48 activists faced the same issues, making it a deep concern for ADHOC.
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