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Read More Garment Workers’ Minimum Wage Raised To $208 for 2025, Employees Say It’s Too Little
The monthly minimum wage of garment workers has been increased by an additional $4, bringing the total to $208 for 2025, however, independent workers and unions are unsatisfied with the new pay. In the final meeting of the tripartite National Minimum Wage Council on September 19, 51 members participated in the voting, with the majority voting in favor of the $206 salary. The government proposed an increase in the current minimum wage, which employers supported.
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Read More Ratanakiri Court Commences Testimony for Case Involving Indigenous Land Cultivators
Ta Bok village chief, Kra Chhoen Cham, stated that the investigating judge questioned him as a witness in the case against Dor Romdoul, a resident in Ta Bok village, who was placed under court supervision after being indicted for encroaching on, clearing, and burning a protected forest. The indictments, filed by the Ratanakiri provincial court, followed a formal complaint from the plaintiff, the Ratanakiri Department of Environment.
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Read More A year of inactivity: Cambodian consulate in Songkhla still pending
Chum Sounry, Secretary of State at Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, confirmed that significant steps have been taken. The Ministry has already secured a location and is currently coordinating with Thai counterparts to expedite the process of establishing the Cambodian Consulate in Songkhla province.
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Read More Community forest or corporate fortune? How public land became a mine in Cambodia
The 10 have connections to the Cambodian military and their families, Mongabay has found, and have begun clearing the forest inside the 3,000-hectare (7,400-acre) piece of formerly public land for a marble mine. Even though the land is supposed to be a community forest, according to an agreement signed by the Cambodian government, Flynn says this type of corporate land grab and subsequent extraction is quite common in the nation. Community forests are created through agreements between communities and the Forestry Administration. In 2017, the government signed off on the creation of the Phnom Chum Rok Sat community forest, and the community forest’s committee had since patrolled and defended the forest, taking charge of its sustainable use.
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Read More NagaWorld Union Leader Chhim Sithar Released After Two Years In Prison
The president of the Labor Rights Supported Union of Khmer Employees of NagaWorld (LRSU), Chhim Sithar, was released from prison at 4.30 a.m on September 16, 2024, after serving two years. LRSU union members have been on strike since December 2021 against NagaWorld casino’s decision to implement mass layoffs in the middle of a pandemic. The firings included LRSU’s senior leadership and a large number of its members.
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Read More Cambodia Frees Jailed Unionist Who Led NagaWorld Casino Strikes
A prominent union leader who led a high-profile strike at a Phnom Penh casino complex has been released from prison, vowing to continue her fight for workers’ rights. Chhim Sithar, the leader of the Labor Rights Supported Union of Khmer Employees (LRSU), was released from Prey Sar prison in Phnom Penh early yesterday morning. She immediately gave several press interviews in which she pledged to continue leading workers who are demanding better wages and working conditions at the NagaWorld casino.
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Read More UN experts want Cambodia’s journalism charter suspended
A group of United Nations independent experts have urged Cambodia to suspend its recently promulgated Charter for Professional Journalists saying it failed to meet with international human rights standards nor did it include relevant input from all relevant parties. They noted the charter was promulgated by the information ministry on Aug. 6 after it was made public on July 24 and that no comprehensive consultations were held as part of the process and only a few stakeholders were given just nine days to comment.
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Read More UN Calls for Suspension Of Cambodia’s Journalism Charter, Ministry Says It Devalues Industry’s Consensus
Independent UN experts on Thursday called for the suspension of Cambodia’s newly issued Charter for Professional Journalism and urged a thorough review to reform it to ensure that it aligned with international human rights standards. The Ministry of Information officially implemented the charter on August 6, 2024. Stakeholders were given 10 days to provide feedback after the consultation on the draft Charter for Professional Journalism but four days after the deadline, the ministry published it without further discussion.
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Read More Candid Conversation: Cambodia’s Ken Loo
Ken Loo, secretary general, Cambodia’s Textile, Apparel, Footwear and Travel Goods sector (TAFTAC), who has been at the helm of the association since 2001 told Sourcing Journal that the sector has been able to weather a critical time that included the withdrawal of the European Union’s Everything but Arms (EBA) scheme, the pandemic and the subsequent the global slowdown. He also addressed issues about freedom of association that have been a major source of global concern.
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Read More U.S Sanctions Tycoon Ly Yong Phat Over Human Trafficking, Online Scam
The United States has imposed treasury sanctions on prominent tycoon Ly Yong Phat by “blocking all properties and interests” in the U.S owing to his alleged role in “serious human trafficking, online investment scam operation”.
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Read More US sanctions powerful Cambodian casino tycoon
The sanctions from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also targeted Ly’s O-Smach Resort on the Thai border in northern Cambodia, as well as the Garden City Hotel in Phnom Penh, the Koh Kong Resort in southwestern Cambodia and the Phnom Penh Hotel.
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Read More Cambodian carbon credit project hit by rights abuse claims is reinstated
Carbon credit certifying agency Verra announced on Sept. 10 that it has lifted the suspension of the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project in Cambodia following a roughly 14-month review of the project’s audits. Verified emissions reductions, better known as carbon credits, can now once more be issued by Cambodia’s flagship REDD+ project.
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Read More U.S. Embassy Launches Program to Support Women in Business
The US embassy in Cambodia has launched the Academy of Women Entrepreneurs (AWE), a program designed to equip women with business skills, entrepreneurial resources and networking opportunities. In collaboration with Paññāsāstra University in Phnom Penh and Impact Hub, an Austrian social enterprise group, the US Embassy has welcomed 30 women from diverse fields in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap to join Cambodia’s first cohort of the AWE program.
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Read More Q&A: Empowering Youth for a Cleaner Future
Hem Sophem, a university student in Phnom Penh and founder of Nisset Plastic, a group dedicated to cleaning garbage from drainage canals and roads, won first place at the second ASEAN Youth Eco-Champions Award in Laos last year. The victory has inspired other young people to become more involved in environmental conservation.
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Read More Big brands urge Cambodian govt to drop independent union probe
Big brands including Adidas and Puma are urging the Cambodian government to halt investigations into an independent union and drop a criminal complaint against its leader, which they say could be perceived as restricting civil society space. Eighteen brands, all members of the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA), made it clear they were concerned about labor rights group, Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL), which has been targeted for investigation by local authorities.
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Read More Adidas, Puma, Levi’s, ASICS Repeat Call To Cancel CENTRAL’s Audit, Dismiss Khun Tharo’s Charges
Eighteen global brands urged the Cambodian government to immediately cancel its audit and withdraw the criminal charges against Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL) program manager Khun Tharo, and ensure respect for civil society organizations. The brands, part of the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA), jointly issued a statement on September 10, 2024 to voice their concern over the “timing of the Interior Ministry’s investigation” into CENTRAL following their Barriers to Representation: Freedom of Association (FOA) in Cambodia report in June this year.
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Read More Facebook User Charged For Comments On Vietnamese, Cambodia-Vietnam Border Post
A 53-year-old woman was charged with incitement to disturb social security after making a comment on Facebook criticizing the demarcation border post between Cambodia and Vietnam. She also wrote that “Yuon”, a colloquial word referring to Vietnamese people, have entered Khmer territory and “ruled for a long time”.
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Read More Funan Canal Activity Silent A Month After Groundbreaking; Ministries Start Interviewing Residents
Residents reported that a day after the groundbreaking, construction equipment was withdrawn, and no activity was seen at the canal’s starting point. Unlike those who arrived from other provinces for the groundbreaking, people who lived around the project were not invited to join and were concerned about the effect of the construction on their property and livelihoods.
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Read More Highest Court Upholds Unionist Vorn Pao’s 2014 Conviction
The Supreme Court upheld the decision of a lower court on Monday in a case dating back to 2014 which convicted 10 people after a nationwide garment workers’ strike to demand higher minimum wage. Presiding Judge Nil Non who read out the verdict, dismissed the appeal filed by Vorn Pao, president of Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA), noting that the lower court decided the matter correctly.
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Read More Can Hun Manet chart Cambodia a new course free from his father’s shadow?
Sworn in as the successor to his father, Hun Sen, who reigned for nearly four decades, Hun Manet acknowledged the weight of his predecessor’s influence during his acceptance speech to the National Assembly, Cambodia’s lower house of parliament, last August. He expressed his gratitude for the trust placed in him, stating that the lessons learned from his father and former ministers would serve as “permanent fixtures within our consciences and consciousness”.
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