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Police Arrest, Release Activist In Koh Kong
Police in Koh Kong province arrested and released an activist on Saturday who helped families organize a roadblock against a Chinese company they accuse of stealing their farms.
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Mother Nature Activists Denied Bail Again
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Three environmental activists detained and charged with threatening and damaging a sand dredging company were yesterday denied bail by the Appeals Court in Phnom Penh. The decision came after weeks of large protests in the area outside the Koh Kong prison and the provincial courthouse there calling for the release of the activists, who are all working with environmental NGO Mother Nature. “The court decided to deny bail to them because the lower court has not yet collected enough evidence for the case to proceed,” Appeals Court Judge Phou Povsun told Khmer Times.
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Police Arrest, Release Activist In Koh Kong
Police in Koh Kong province arrested and released an activist on Saturday who helped families organize a roadblock against a Chinese company they accuse of stealing their farms.
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Garment Workers Demand Cambodian Government Resolve Employment Issue
More than 500 striking garment workers from a factory in central Cambodia petitioned the parliament and Labor Ministry on Monday, demanding that government officials intervene in stopping their company from firing workers without cause. The workers from the Hong Kong-owned Bloomsfield (Cambodia) Knitters Ltd. factory in Kampong Tralach district, Kampong Chhnang province, accuse managers of firing 25 workers as revenge for striking in August. During the strike last month, workers demanded that the factory stop firing colleagues and issue long-term employment contracts. Neal Sarath, a worker at the factory, said the company has terminated workers without cause or advanced notice. “The factory must respect labor law,” he said, adding that the workers would continue to strike if there is no solution.
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Garment Workers Want More Pay to Cover Costs
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – The minimum wage of Cambodia’s 600,000 garment workers is up for discussion this week, as the Ministry of Labor holds talks with labor unions and factory owners to negotiate a possible increase. Until now the wage discussions have been carried out without one vital piece of data - the cost of living of garment workers. Now the first study in 6 years of how garment workers spend their money has been released. It exposes just how far minimum wage lags behind employee expenses. The survey, conducted in August by research firm DC Research, found that garment factory workers spent a median of $207.50 per month, almost $80 more than the current minimum wage of $128. They make up the difference by working long overtime or second jobs.
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After Scramble, Campaign on Nauru Ramps Up
Less than two weeks after Australia’s immigration minister met with Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh following media reports that a controversial refugee deal had collapsed, a spokesman for an organization that monitors refugees on Nauru said that asylum seekers there are again being “harassed” to resettle in Cambodia.
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Teen bride traffickers earn two years' jail
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday found five people guilty on charges of human trafficking. The court sentenced two Chinese men and three Cambodian women to two years behind bars for attempting to traffic seven Cambodian girls hailing from Kampong Cham, Kratie and Prey Veng provinces, two of them under the age of 16. They were being brought to China for forced marriages.
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‘Living wage’ talks draw major brands
Envoys of major clothing brands and retailers visited Phnom Penh this week to discuss how to achieve a “living wage” for Cambodia’s garment workers, while the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) contends the “uncompetitive” industry is slowing down as buyers pull out. The visit this week by members of the Action Collaboration Transformation (ACT) initiative came as the Ministry of Labour set Wednesday for talks about raising the minimum wage in the garment sector from $128.
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Australia's refugee solution: An expensive joke?
Overhead, a chandelier drips with crystals. Champagne glasses clink. It was here that ministers from Australia and Cambodia forged a deal that would set in motion a resettlement programme for hundreds of refugees turned away by Australia and detained instead on the remote South Pacific island of Nauru. The plan, widely criticised since its inception, would see genuine refugees transferred to Cambodia on a strictly voluntary basis. They would then be provided with a start-up assistance package to help them integrate, find work and build new lives. Australia made an initial aid pledge of A$40m ($31m; £20m), which was then topped up with another A$15.5m in resettlement costs.
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New NGO Aims to Propel Women In Business
Women run most of the businesses in Cambodia, but they often lack the resources or know-how to sustain or expand them, a reality that prompted the launch on Friday of Wecreate Cambodia, an NGO that aims to help businesswomen excel.
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Appeal Court Refuses CNRP Senator’s Request for Release
The Court of Appeal again refused to release opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour from prison Thursday, with a lawyer for the 59-year-old, who has immunity from prosecution, saying he is considering taking the case to the Supreme Court.
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Legal Experts Say Justice Ministry Granted Excessive Power Over Judiciary
PHNOM PENH—International legal experts say a group of laws recently passed in Cambodia to reform the judiciary does little to ensure a balance of powers. The three laws on judicial reform in fact put a lot of power in the hands of the Ministry of Justice, which falls under Prime Minister Hun Sen’s executive branch, according to a new analysis from the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute.
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Most Garment Workers Not Expecting New $207 Monthly Wage
Most garment workers are expecting a new monthly minimum wage between $160 and $180, according to the results of a recent survey, far lower than the $207 some unions say they plan to seek in fast-approaching negotiations with the factories.
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Cambodian Villagers Ask For Missing Compensation For Confiscated Land
Eighteen Cambodian families whose land was confiscated for the construction of a Chinese hydropower dam in a northwestern province on Thursday requested that the local government and Chinese operator of the facility pay them compensation they are owed, said a local resident and an official from a rights group. The families from Rotanak Mondol district in Battambang province said they had not received any money from Guangdong Foreign Construction Co. Ltd. or local authorities who took about 80 hectares (198 acres) of their land, although 800 other families in the area had been paid U.S. $4,000 each.
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Senator’s son-in-law rejects land grab claim
The son-in-law of Senator Kok An has rejected accusations the tycoon is attempting to grab six hectares of land from a plot he sold to a South Korean development company 10 years ago. Speaking yesterday, Rithy Samang said the 6 hectares fall outside a 50-hectare plot sold to World City Inc in 2005, while he said another section on which he is constructing a road to the nearby stadium for football team Phnom Penh Crown falls on a separate two-hectare chunk of land. “We have the land title and we showed it to them [World City representatives], but they continued to accuse us of grabbing their land,” he said.
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UN Human Rights Rapporteur Meets NGO Leaders
NGO leaders met Thursday with Rhona Smith, the U.N.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, to raise concerns about human rights violations.
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Sam Rainsy, Sar Kheng to Meet Over 2017 Commune Elections
Interior Minister Sar Kheng said Thursday that he would meet opposition leader Sam Rainsy at the National Assembly next week to hammer out an agreement over the schedule and scope of the 2017 commune elections.
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Kompong Chhnang Man, 68, Charged With Rape of Girl, 8
The Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court on Thursday charged a 68-year-old man with rape of a minor after the parents of an 8-year-old girl accused him of repeatedly raping their daughter in July, a police official said.
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Legal Group Urges Review of Cambodia’s Bar
The human rights arm of the International Bar Association (IBA) is recommending that the membership of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia in the IBA be reviewed, raising the prospect of ejection in a scathing new report on the country’s judicial system.
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Corruption in Cambodian courts endemic, says new report
Corruption is endemic across Cambodia’s justice system, according to a new report released Thursday by an organization that refers to itself as "the global voice of the legal profession". The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute reported that corruption had infested Cambodian society through government interference, a lack of impartiality and a culture of bribery among clerks and judges that had swayed case outcomes. A delegation of legal experts visited Cambodia in April to assess the impact of three widely criticized judicial laws passed last year that effectively entrenched not only that culture of corruption, but also granted the Minister of Justice what it called “an inappropriate role” over the judiciary.
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