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Despite legal hurdles, Cambodia’s LGBT couples are adopting – and changing minds
When Heng Ny laughs, hundreds of lines run across his face. Sitting in front of his simple house with cats and chickens at his feet, discussing his relationship is what brings out a smile. He and his wife seem like an average couple, but one thing is different: Ny is transgender.
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‘Lack of proof’ in Mother Nature activists’ hearing
Two activists from the conservation group Mother Nature were tried yesterday in Koh Kong for photographing a vessel at sea, with their lawyer asking the court to dismiss the charges due to a lack of evidence that they had committed any crime.
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Svay Rieng villagers protest
About 100 farmers representing more than 140 families in Svay Chrom district yesterday gathered in front of Svay Rieng provincial hall asking authorities to solve and provide compensation over a land dispute relating to the construction of a reservoir.
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Holdouts in Borei Keila accept compensation
A handful of holdout families have accepted compensation to leave their homes in Borei Keila, following individual negotiations with district authorities yesterday.
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New petition for Vanny’s release
A group of Boeung Kak villagers yesterday submitted a petition to City Hall calling for activist Tep Vanny to be released from prison and for an expedited solution to their land dispute case.
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After suffering years of abuse, a former migrant worker now helps others get out
Sitting on the white tile floor in his home on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, 29-year-old Yan Muon switched back and forth between Khmer and English as he remembered four years spent working at an electronics factory in Malaysia.
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Locals call for an end to land dispute
About 175 families locked in a land dispute with sugarcane plantation companies in Koh Kong province have asked an inter-ministerial group and provincial authorities to speed up the resolution process and end the conflict.
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Call to investigate union leader’s murder
Unionists, workers and civil society organisations on Monday asked authorities to find the murderers of prominent union leader Chea Vichea as they marked the anniversary of his death.
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Borei Keila families take compensation
Almost 20 Borei Keila families have decided to accept compensation in one of the country’s most prominent and longstanding land disputes.
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Ministry defends wage law
Piseth Duch, advocacy director and coordinator of the Cambodia Centre for Human Rights’ Business and Human Rights project, was equally concerned and said that while complaints had been raised by civil society over similar articles in pre-existing laws, they were often ignored by the government.
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Internet Freedom Ranking Slips
Although the government continues to claim it honors international human rights edicts and freedom of expression on the internet, a report by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) earlier this year showed a stark difference in its actions. The report pointed first to troubling parts of the Telecommunications Law, passed in November 2015. “The Telecommunications Law increases the government’s control over the industry and seriously threatens the rights to privacy of correspondence and freedom of expression,” the report said.
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Police take slingshots to protect ‘social stability’
Cambodia Center for Human Rights advocacy director Duch Piseth pointed out the seeming contradiction saying authorities “judge other people by their bad actions while they judge themselves by their good intentions”.
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US-Cambodia Relations to Stay Strong
Chak Sopheap, the present CCHR executive director, yesterday said she was surprised at the election result and saddened for those who had hoped for a female president. “Amid the shock and frustration, the lesson we could learn is the equal playing field afforded to both candidates during the election process and the free and fair environment in which citizens could freely make their own choice. Cambodia can take inspiration from this aspect,” Ms. Sopheap said.
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Cambodian Civil Society Concerned, Disappointed By US Election Result
Similarly, Chak Sopheap, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said she had hoped to see a woman become US president and that Clinton was well-versed in foreign policy. “The result of the U.S. election today has made many American and Cambodian citizen[s] shocked and dismayed especially for those who wanted to see Hillary Clinton selected to be the first female president of the United states,” she wrote on Facebook.
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Senator Sok Hour given seven years for forgery and incitement
Chak Sopheap, executive director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, called the trend “extremely alarming” ahead of elections in 2017 and 2018, while labelling Sok Hour’s case “unconstitutional” and “politically motivated”.
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Prison rates soaring in Cambodia
“From a human rights-based approach, it is not good practice to see high numbers in pre-trial detention,” CCHR advocacy director Piseth Duch said in an email. “Only in exceptional circumstances with solid evidence should judges decide to put defendants in pre-trial detention.”
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Illegal Sand Dredging Eradicated, Mines Ministry Claims
A group of 41 civil society organizations issued a letter on Tuesday calling for the government to explain the discrepancies, while the opposition CNRP has threatened to summon Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem to the National Assembly to explain them. In its response on Wednesday, the ministry called on civil society to “provide any additional data that may be available to help the Ministry…determine the exact cause of the difference between the two data…. The ministry is thoroughly reviewing and carefully examining the details” of the statistics.
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Dredging for answers
Vann Sophath, of the Cambodia Center for Human Rights, which was among the organisations to demand answers from the ministry, said he hadn’t seen the response, but if smuggling and illegal mining were possible contributing factors leading to the massive discrepancies, it would be a loss for everyone.
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Ministry Blames ‘Ineffective Practices’ for Over $400M in Missing Sand
A group of 41 civil society organizations also called on the government to explain the contradicting data in a letter signed by representatives of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, Mother Nature and Transparency International Cambodia, among others.
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The shocking reality of life for transgender women in Cambodia
CCHR also urged international donors, including Australia - which is one of the biggest - to support the government in developing and implementing policies and legislation to protect transgender rights, and to include its recommendations “in their conversations with the Cambodian government”. The Australian embassy in Phnom Penh did not respond to SBS’ request for a comment.
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