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Read More NEC agrees to meet with four parties on proposed reforms
The National Election Committee (NEC) has agreed to meet with representatives from four political parties – Grassroots Democratic (GDP), Khmer Will (KWP), Cambodia Reform (CRP) and Candlelight (CP) – on August 31 to discuss their proposals for electoral reforms.
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Read More Thousands of Khem Veasna Devotees to Head Home Unless World Ends
Thousands of people are estimated to have gathered at a politician’s farm in Siem Reap to avoid world disaster — but are expected to be sent home tomorrow unless flooding swallows Earth.
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Read More Cambodia’s police, judiciary must be independent, rights groups say
Cambodian rights groups on Monday threw their support behind a recommendation of a U.N. monitor that the country do more to ensure the independence of its judiciary system.
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Read More Sihanoukville residents evicted after four charged with encroaching private land
Approximately 200 huts that officials say were built on privately owned land in the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone were cleared Thursday morning as part of an ongoing land dispute in Preah Sihanouk province’s Stung Hav district.
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Read More UN special envoy sees shortcomings in Cambodia’s human rights and democratic reforms
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Cambodia Vitit Muntarbhorn has completed an 11-day first visit to Cambodia with a series of recommendations to improve the human rights situation, open up the civil and political space and pave the way for democratic reform, which the government deemed as “largely biased, prejudiced, and unfounded on a number of issues”.
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Read More Authorities Deny Detention, Torture After Launching Trafficking Raids
Authorities released details of several crackdowns on forced labor and human trafficking of foreigners that were reported to the Interior Ministry’s hotline, but a ministry spokesperson again denied foul play or forced labor at almost all raided compounds.
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Read More Youth Group Asks to Stop the Department of Vietnamese Studies
A youth group filed a petition to the Ministry of Education and the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), asking to halt the establishment of the Department of Vietnamese Studies. They say Vietnamese studies are unnecessary and may indirectly insert “Vietnam’s ideology” into the Cambodian people.
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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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