• Monk Forced to Stop Advocating for Landless, Released

    • Release Date: 24-May-2012

    Loun Savath said Buddhist elders forced him to sign a pledge to stop assisting villagers forcibly evicted from their homes. He was detained Thursday (5/24) by police and religious elders for some 10 hours at Wat Botum, a prominent pagoda in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh."The contract is serious and it affects not just me but also everyone,"Venerable Loun Savath told reporters outside the temple Thursday night after being released.

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  • Many NGOs Contribute to Cycle of Corruption: Filmmaker

    • Release Date: 16-May-2012

    Cambodia is facing a cycle of continued aid dependency and corruption, an American filmmaker says. Tim Sorel, who produced the short documentary, "The Trap of Saving Cambodia," told VOA Khmer Khmer that local and international NGOs are complicit in the nation's corruption because they allow it or abet it. However, some NGOs are starting to stand up to it and refusing to pay bribes or tolerate other forms of corruption, he said. (Men Kimseng with TV interview in Washington studio.)

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  • Community Members Commemorate Forest Activist Mr. Chut Wuthy

    • Release Date: 14-May-2012

    Community Members Commemorate Forest Activist Mr. Chut Wuthy on 11-12 May 2012 at Veal 3 area, Mondol Sima District, Koh Kong Province, Cambodia.

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  • Murdered Environmentalist Honored in Remote Koh Kong

    • Release Date: 14-May-2012

    A prayer ceremony was held on Friday (May 11) in the remote southwestern province of Koh Kong where a Cambodian anti-logging activist was killed. Chhut Wuthy, director of the Phnom Penh-based environmental watchdog Natural Resource Protection Group, helped expose a secretive state sell-off of national parks. VOA Khmer Khmer's Kong Sothanarith reports.

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  • Pursat Villagers Gird for Clashes Over Land

    • Release Date: 09-Apr-2012

    Loun Sivaey has been working for years on this plot of land in Kra Lanh village, Pursat province, 170 kilometers from the capital. Now, a local company has come in to clear her and hundreds of other villagers from the land. The company has brought in bulldozers and security guards. Loun Sivaey says she and others are preparing to resist them. (Say Mony interviews residents in Pursat province.)

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  • Evictions, Land Grabs Likely To Quiet as Elections Near: Rights Worker

    • Release Date: 05-Apr-2012

    Sia Phearum, a rights advocate at the Housing Rights Task Force, says he expects forced evictions and land grabs nationwide to decrease as the country heads toward local elections in July. However, that will do little to allay the concerns of people who have already been forced out of their homes. (VOA Khmer Khmer's Sok Khemara, Washington)

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  • Far From Meetings, Evictees Ask Region for Help

    • Release Date: 02-Apr-2012

    Far from the Asean ministerial meetings underway on Monday, victims of forced evictions in Cambodia say they need regional leaders to help enforce human rights. At a squalid relocation camp at Phnom Bath mountain, where many displaced families live in poverty, Nhim Sopha, 29, told VOA Khmer Khmer she needs Asean's leaders "to help solve the problems, so that I can have a plot of land."

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  • Authority prevents BKL Residents from petitioning to Chinese Embassy

    • Release Date: 02-Apr-2012

    Authority prevents BKL Residents from petitioning to Chinese Embassy

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  • Shooting Victims in Fear as Alleged Shooter Goes Free

    • Release Date: 23-Mar-2012

    Victims of a shooting in the eastern province of Svay Rieng last month say they are now living in fear, as local authorities have failed to detain the man accused of shooting them, the former governor of Bavet city. Chhouk Bandith remains free, after he allegedly shot into a crowd of garment workers who had gathered to protest working conditions at a special economic zone in Svay Rieng in front of Kaoway Sports factory. He was questioned by the provincial court last week but walked away without being held.

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  • Rights Activist Urges Politicians To Promote National Interest (Cambodia news in Khmer)

    • Release Date: 23-Mar-2012

    A leading right activist in Cambodia blames politicians over causing a breakup in the country as they focus less on the national policies, but individual affairs. Politicians often treat their opponents as their sworn enemies. Ou Virak, executive director of Cambodian Center for Human Rights, made this comment in a recent interview on Skype with Sok Khemara of VOA Khmer Khmer.

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  • Strengthen Justice in Election Process in Cambodia in 2012 and 2013

    • Release Date: 16-Mar-2012

    Weekly Watch program organized by Comfrel on 16 March 2012 subject strengthen Justice in Election Process in Cambodia in 2012 and 2013.

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  • Cambodian Villagers Unite to Take Back Prey Lang Forest

    • Release Date: 28-Feb-2012

    February 28, 2012 - In mid-November 2011, approximately 300 villagers from four provinces surrounding Prey Lang forest marched through the endangered woods for more than a week. They were patrolling the forest to protect it from further illegal logging and deforestation, and to protest the escalating threat posed by economic land concessions and other exploitation.

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