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CNRP Youth Visits Villagers Accusing Vietnam of Encroachment
Buddhist monks and activists from the Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities joined a 100-strong group led by CNRP Youth on Sunday to visit Svay Rieng province, where villagers along the border with Vietnam claim demarcation posts have encroached on their land.
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Farmer released after land dispute scuffle
Military police in Kampong Cham province yesterday released a man they arrested after an alleged physical altercation with another man over a years-long land dispute in nearby Tbong Khmum province.
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Hundreds Protest Against Draft NGO Law
NGOs brought about 300 people together in front of the National Assembly on Sunday to protest the pending passage of a law that would force all non-government groups and associations in the country to register and file regular reports with the state.
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Garment Workers Continue Protest After Factory Owner Flees
About 400 garment workers who lost their jobs when their factory abruptly closed earlier this month blocked access to Canadia Industrial Park on Saturday to demand full severance pay.
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As Lake Disappears, a Development Dilemma
As another of Phnom Penh’s central lakes is filled with sand, some 200 families living off Boeng Tompun lake face an uncertain future. And unless City Hall acts fast, losing the lake will have a wider impact on public utilities and the environment.
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Protesters march over controversial NGO bill
More than 200 protesters marched to the National Assembly yesterday demanding the withdrawal of the controversial draft law on NGOs and associations
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Family Convicted of ‘Violence’ Over Land Scuffle
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday convicted a couple and their daughter of using violence against a property owner, although the plaintiff dropped his complaint against them last month.
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Displaced Communities Ask EU to Monitor Funds
Residents of three displaced communities in Phnom Penh on Friday submitted a petition to the office of the European Union delegation, urging it to monitor funds it gives to the government.
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Gov’t: Montagnards Not Welcome
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – The government will not accept more Montagnard asylum seekers from Vietnam because it lacks the resources to do so and does not want to provoke Hanoi, Council of Ministers’ Phay Siphan told Khmer Times yesterday. His comments contradict statements made by Interior Ministry officials to Radio Free Asia last week and Khmer Times two weeks ago suggesting that the ministry was open to granting refugee status to the more than 100 Montagnards who fled Vietnam and are now living in Phnom Penh.
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Refugees: Nauru in the Big Picture
PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Thursday night I spoke on a panel at Meta House to discuss refugee/immigration issues. If you take a step back – and take a deep breath – it is clear that, in this stage of history, Cambodia is only a peripheral player. One generation has passed since the dramatic era of the Indochina refugees, when more than three million people fled communist takeovers in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. About 2.5 million were settled overseas.
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Lawmaker Defends Rejection of Human Rights Proposals
National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun on Friday defended Cambodia’s decision to reject four human rights proposals and merely take note of another 38 during the adoption of its second universal periodic review report in Geneva on Thursday.
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Illegal Fishing on Rise Because of Official Collusion, NGOs Say
An NGO forum held on Friday to discuss illegal fishing activities in Cambodia got heated when fishermen accused local government officials of colluding with other fishermen using forbidden equipment.
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Somaly Mam Facebook Page Decries SMF Funding Cut
In what appear to be Somaly Mam’s first public comments on the fallout from her resignation from the Somaly Mam Foundation (SMF) late last month, posts to one of her Facebook pages say that she will sell her house to support girls formerly under her care after SMF cut funding to an NGO she founded in 1996.
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ADB Protest Leads to Meeting, Few Results
About 60 residents from Phnom Penh and the provinces of Battambang, Banteay Meanchey and Preah Sihanouk who lost land or are in danger of losing land due to a railroad development project funded by the Asian Development Bank protested outside its offices Thursday morning over a lack of representation in the bank’s assistance plan.
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US Report Details Human Rights Abuses in 2014
The U.S. State Department released its 39th annual human rights report on Friday, reviewing abuses against the citizens of 199 countries and painting a forensic picture of the shortcomings of the Cambodian government’s efforts to protect the rights of its population.
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Two Convicted, Advocate Summoned in Dispute
Two farmers at the center of a land dispute that has seen a leading rights campaigner and a pair of judicial officials file lawsuits against each other were on Friday found guilty of illegally clearing land by the Siem Reap Provincial Court and sentenced to two years in prison.
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Villagers Shoot Slingshots in Land Dispute Battle
A bloody slingshot battle broke out in Kompong Speu province yesterday when villagers who have sold their land to a private company defended the firm’s machinery as it attempted to bulldoze the homes of neighbors who have refused to sell.
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Gov’t Rejects 4 Human Rights Recommendations
Cambodia on Thursday rejected four recommendations for improving its human rights situation that it initially accepted earlier this year during its second universal periodic review at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Hundreds of Students Leave Class to Protest
One thousand students and more than 100 teachers demonstrated outside their high school in Banteay Meanchey province’s Serei Saophoan City on Friday against a private construction firm that recommenced work on disputed land, according to the school’s director.
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Activists detained over unsanctioned march
Three environmentalists and a rights worker were detained yesterday for more than two hours and blocked from delivering a petition to the National Assembly calling on the government to order sand-dredging operations in Koh Kong province to cease.
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