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Read More Ex-illegal logger joins forest protection fight
Poor decision making when trying to make a fast dollar can have serious consequences, as John Bunthoeun from Oddar Meanchey discovered. Formally an illegal logger, he gave it up after a series of near fatal accidents.
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Read More Ministry rejects Khmer Thavrak protest violence claims
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs said the recent enacting of scenes of violence by members of a lesser-known youth group in relation to protests by laid-off NagaWorld employees “deviated from the truth”.
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Read More Cambodia Plans to Set up a Juvenile Court to Handle Cases Involving Minors
“Cambodia is committed to establishing specialized courts to adjudicate cases in areas such as civil courts, criminal courts, labor courts, commercial courts and juvenile courts,” Minister of Justice Keut Rith said during a meeting with Vitit Muntarbhorn, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia, according to the ministry’s Facebook page.
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Read More UN Inquiry Condemns Cambodian Rights Abuses
Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, spoke after an eleven-day visit to Cambodia during which he spoke to Prime Minister Hun Sen, other government officials, civil society members and other stakeholders.
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Read More Land Activist Takes on Citizen Journalist Role
Mrs. Mom Sophy, aged 41, was born in Peam Ros Village, Raksmey Samaki Commune, Oral District, Kampong Speu Province. She has four children, one boy and three girls. She is very active in social work and long fought for community land rights in Reaksmey Samaki community located in Oral district, Kampong Speu province.
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Read More CPP says coalition plan of opposition parties holds no water
plan of opposition parties holds no water The unity talks of opposition parties does not hold water, and is not going to happen before the National Election in 2023, said Sok Eysan, spokesman of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP).
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Fisheries crackdown pushes Cambodians to the brink on Tonle Sap lake
Cambodia — From her sun-bleached wooden houseboat in the floating village of Koh Tapov, on the southeastern side of the Tonle Sap lake in Kampong Thom province, Hai Sokha and her family looked out at the quiet waters one morning in late June. For more than three months, the family of fishers had not dared go out on the water.
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Read More Women’s Affairs Ministry Flags ‘Inappropriate’ Media Coverage of Gendered Violence
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs is urging publications to report more professionally on violence against women after a media review found patterns of coverage that made light of the subject.
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Read More UN Special Rapporteur calls for Cambodia to respect democracy, human rights
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Vitit Muntarbhorn, on Friday ended his visit to the country by calling on the government to open up the political space and implement democratic reforms.
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Read More Youth Activists Say They Lost Confidence in the Ministry of Women’s Affairs regarding Violence against Women in the NagaWorld Labor Conflict
Chak Sopheap, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), said that there does not seem to be measured from the government to halt violence or rights violations such as the right to assembly. Instead, the government defends the authorities who commit violence, which is contrary to their responsibilities as well as to national and international laws that aim to address and eliminate violence against women.
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Read More Ratanakiri Land Dispute Escalates Amid Indigenous Frustration
Nine Tampoun villagers are facing an imminent court verdict over allegedly stealing wood from a Chinese concessionaire with which Ratanakiri communities have been locked in an escalating dispute.
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Read More UN official says Cambodia faces ‘severe’ human rights issues
Cambodia’s government should remove restrictions on political participation and introduce other democratic reforms to address “severe human rights challenges,” a U.N. rights monitor said Friday, following his first official visit to the country.
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Read More Rainsy cannot set conditions for his return, says Eysan
Reacting to a Facebook post of Sam Rainsy, former opposition leader, in which he put three conditions for his return to the Kingdom, Sok Eysan, spokesman of Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) said yesterday that Rainsy has the right to enter the country like any other person but he cannot set conditions.
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Read More Phnom Penh Judges accept new evidence against Kem Sokha
Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday agreed to accept the prosecution’s new evidence against former opposition leader Kem Sokha, despite the objections of the defense.
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Read More NEC is neutral, says spokesman
Opposition parties have the right to voice their concerns to the United Nations human rights envoy to Cambodia over alleged biased composition of the election body while the NEC maintain its neutrality to ensure free and fair elections.
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Read More Khmer Thavrak Activists Dismayed With Women’s Affairs Ministry
Activists from the Khmer Thavrak activist group said Thursday nothing had been done by the Women’s Affairs Ministry on an April petition they submitted about state violence against NagaWorld’s striking workers.
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Read More Gambling Symbols Spark Pageant Outcry
Two pageant contestants have sparked a public outcry by dressing as casino staff and carrying cards and dice to represent their provinces in the Miss Grand Cambodia 2022 event.
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Read More Timber Tycoon, Once Target of Crackdown, Made Hun Sen Adviser
In 2016, Hun Sen ordered a crackdown against Bunna and another timber tycoon, saying authorities should use firearms and helicopters to end the smuggling activity, government spokesperson Phay Siphan told the Phnom Penh Post at the time.
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Read More Briefs: Deputy Governors Appointed, SEZ Encroachers Charged
A string of officials have been appointed to expanded deputy governorships in at least seven provinces by promoting district governors, provincial administrators and two Muslim youth officers.
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Read More Authorities Reclaim 65,000 Hectares of Flooded Forest
About 65,000 hectares of flooded forest around the Tonle Sap Lake have been reclaimed, with 5,000 families relocated, to prevent further encroachment, according to the spokesman for the Ministry of Land Management.
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