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UN Envoy Meets With Sesan Villagers to Discuss Dam Site
The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia on Sunday promised villagers in Stung Treng province who are set to be displaced by the construction of the Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam that she would raise their plight with the government, a village representative said.
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Justice Minister, Opposition Talk Pretrial Detention, Khaou Case
Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana met on Friday with the National Assembly’s opposition-led human rights commission to discuss issues related to judicial independence and court procedure, including government interference in the court system and abuse of the pretrial detention system.
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New LGBT policies necessary: CCHR
The Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) has called on schools to adopt a flexible school uniform policy to help transgender students and for the government to introduce LGBT anti-discrimination laws, in partnership with a USAID program worth almost $300,000. The two-year program, called “We Are the Same” and launched on Wednesday, is a social media network and mobile platform to give LGBT people information and support.
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Media Campaign Launched to Bring LGBT Issues Out of the Shadows
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a project to raise awareness about issues faced by lesbian, gay and transgender (LGBT) people in Cambodia. The project, called “We Are the Same,” will use radio, television and social media to educate people about issues faced by the gay and transgender community. As part of the campaign, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights’ (CCHR) radio channel will feature programs on issues relevant to LGBT people, as well as a radio play dramatizing issues faced by LGBT people in Cambodia. The campaign will also include TV spots and social media discussion groups. The project will last two years and has a budget of almost $300,000. Chak Sopheap, the executive director of CCHR, said she hopes the campaign will help educate people about different sexual identities, starting at the family level.
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New LGBT policies necessary: CCHR
The Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) has called on schools to adopt a flexible school uniform policy to help transgender students and for the government to introduce LGBT anti-discrimination laws, while USAID announced a program worth almost $300,000 for LGBT people. The two-year program, called “We Are the Same” and launched on Wednesday, is a social media network and mobile platform to give LGBT people information and support and will be run by Media One in partnership with CCHR.
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Unions plan protests ahead of vote on law
Cambodia's independent labour unions decided yesterday to mobilise ahead of the scheduled April 4 vote on the contentious draft trade union law, with demonstrations planned across 130 factories on Sunday, followed by a protest outside the National Assembly on the day of the vote. Buoyed by a flurry of international support over the past month, independent unions say they will get members to hold posters, banners and stickers opposing the proposed law at their respective factories, with a bigger peaceful protest planned for April 4.
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Third Round of Talks Fail Between JC Penny Supplier, Workers
The third round of negotiations between Win Shingtex (Cambodia) company and workers’ representatives under Ministry of Labor official supervision failed again yesterday, with workers planning to file a complaint to the Arbitration Council for help. A worker representative, 24-year-old Chan Thou, said late yesterday evening that the negotiations were useless and workers would gather again to discuss their options in finding a resolution for their case.
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Police, RCAF officers guilty of defamation
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday found police Lieutenant Colonel Pheng Vannak and army Brigadier General Hang Borey guilty of defamation for spreading rumours that wealthy businesswoman Keo Mally had an affair with Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Lieutenant General Seak Socheath. Under the ruling, both men were ordered to each pay a fine of 5 million riel, about $1,250, and to jointly pay Mally 15 million riel, about $3,750, in compensation.
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ACU Tosses Complaint Against ActionAid
The Anti-Corruption Unit on Thursday dismissed a complaint filed by a Cambodian NGO against the local arm of the international humanitarian group ActionAid for allegedly embezzling $3 million, the unit’s chairman said.
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Union Calls on Prime Minister to Review New Year Bonus
The Cambodia Independent Teacher’s Association (CITA) submitted a letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday requesting a $37.50 Khmer New Year bonus for all state teachers, civil servants and members of the armed forces. The request says the Khmer New Year celebrations are an essential part of Cambodian culture, with thousands of people returning from the cities to their home provinces, generally with gifts and food to celebrate with friends and family.
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PM overrules supreme court's decision in Banteay Meanchey land dispute
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s recent contretemps with the Cambodian court system has seemingly reached its logical apex, with the premier ordering provincial authorities in Banteay Meanchey to disregard a ruling by the Supreme Court. In the latest case of public intervention in court matters, the prime minister weighed in on a dispute over 4 hectares near National Road 5 in the province’s O’Chrou district during a speech last week.
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Villagers Intervene to Prevent Alleged Arrest in Land Dispute
Villagers involved in a land dispute in Preah Vihear province say police attempted to arrest one of their representatives on Wednesday after about 200 of them returned to reclaim their land, while the district governor said he was only seeking to speak with the villagers.
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Long-awaited return to village frustrated
After two years in Phnom Penh protesting the loss of their land, 250 Preah Vihear families received intervention from the Interior Ministry last week and returned home, only to be turned away by provincial authorities. The villagers, from Svay Chrum village in Choam Ksan district, were told they had to leave their homes in 2010. Two years ago, they moved to the capital to demonstrate.
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JC Penny Supplier Workers to Protest for Unpaid Wages
Hundreds of garment workers from a factory making products for US retail giant JC Penny in Phnom Penh’s Por Senchey district are set to march to the Council of Ministers office and Labor Ministry after they were stopped on Monday attempting to make the same trip. Hath Yum, 25, who worked at Win Shingtex (Cambodia) for more than a year, told Khmer Times yesterday that the company announced the termination of contracts for all workers and staff earlier this month, but did not pay them as is legally required.
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Int’l support strong for jailed activists: CNRP
The CNRP hopes pressure by the international community will help free 15 of its members imprisoned in cases widely believed to be politically motivated, an opposition spokesman said yesterday after visiting the detainees. Cambodia National Rescue Party spokesman Yim Sovann told reporters outside Prey Sar prison that the diplomatic community was pushing “very hard” to free the men.
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Lawmaker Requests UN Envoy Promote ‘Culture of Dialogue’
The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia on Wednesday met with Eng Chhay Eang, an opposition lawmaker who heads the National Assembly’s human rights commission and requested the rapporteur’s assistance in rekindling positive relations with the ruling party.
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More disputants seek PM’s help after Kampong Speu intervention
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s intervention last week in the cases of two Kampong Speu women jailed over incidents stemming from a land dispute appears to have inspired disputants across the country. One hundred people from villages in Battambang and Banteay Meanchey embroiled in land disputes arrived in Phnom Penh yesterday to petition Hun Sen and the Ministry of Justice to free their jailed compatriots.
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Union Leaders Demand Meeting with PM on Union Law
About 50 union leaders gathered to file a petition at the Council of Ministers yesterday requesting a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen next week to discuss their concerns about the trade union law, which will be sent to the National Assembly for debate on April 4. Ath Thorn, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU), said many unions are still concerned about the impending law, which they say will make their work in factories increasingly difficult.
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Compensation battle follows Kandal garment worker’s death
The family of a garment worker who died last week while working overtime at a factory in Kandal’s Kien Svay district yesterday appealed to her union in a bid to secure compensation from the company. According to 36-year-old Chhin Phern, husband to the late Yon Sambath, 34, his wife called him on March 14 saying she was sick and wanted to come home, but the company would not let her, telling her to work an overtime shift of two extra hours until 6pm.
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Evictions Signal Coastal Development Dilemma
With the threat of eviction hanging over businesses on Sihanoukville’s O’Chheuteal and O’Tres beaches, land rights advocates congregated in Phnom Penh this week to give voice to thousands of families locked in land disputes with powerful firms turning swaths of coastline into tourism destinations. Last month, the owners of bars, restaurants and hotels on the popular beaches were given weeks to leave the area or face forced eviction, with the local government accusing the businesses of squatting on state land.
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