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Almost 100 More Factory Workers Faint
Almost 350 workers have now fainted in garment factories across the country this week, with 95 workers collapsing in three different factories in Phnom Penh, Kandal and Takeo provinces Thursday, according to the Labor Ministry.
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Cambodia Union Warns About Fainting Garment Factory Workers
The president of one of Cambodia’s largest labor unions representing the apparel sector expressed concern on Thursday about the growing number of garment factory workers fainting from overwork and harsh factory conditions during the past few days. Ath Thon, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union, an independent union affiliated with the Cambodian Labor Confederation (CLC), said at least 100 workers had fainted over the past four days due to lack of adequate food, physical exhaustion and exposure to chemical odors. “The workers fainted due to their deteriorating health and work environment,” Ath Thon said. “But the most important reason is their low salary.”
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Lawmaker says NGO law must pass now
Despite government assurances that the controversial NGO draft law was still undergoing review, committees of the National Assembly said yesterday that the only revisions will be minor corrections to spelling and wording. The decision was made in a meeting with the three commissions responsible for studying and reviewing the draft law. “Overall, we decided to keep the meaning intact,” said Chheang Vun, chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Commission.
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Lawmakers Spar Over Right to Speak
CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun and CNRP lawmaker Un Sam An got into a heated back-and-forth following a meeting at the National Assembly on Wednesday, with Mr. Vun refusing to allow Mr. Sam An to speak to a reporter while inside parliament.
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Parliamentarian Rails Against Protests Against NGO Law
PHNOM PENH—A ruling party lawmaker says pro-democracy and rights groups staging protests against a draft law at the National Assembly are trying to “topple the government.” Civil society groups have rallied against a draft law to regulate NGOs that they fear will lead to strict government control over their activities and a crackdown on dissent. The draft is currently being reviewed by National Assembly committees before it goes to the floor for debate—despite repeated calls from NGOs and the international community to either improve the law or drop it altogether.
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Interior Ministry Seeks Help on Illegal Migrants
The head of the Interior Ministry’s immigration department called on provincial governors and police chiefs on Wednesday to help rein in illegal immigration as the number of Vietnamese migrants doubled over a five-year period.
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How Cambodia Is Fighting Sexual Exploitation of Children
WASHINGTON DC—[Editor’s note: A new report by the International Justice Mission says the number of minors working in Cambodia’s sex industry is on the decline. But while Cambodia may no longer be the world’s No. 1 destination for underage sex, sexual exploitation of children remains a concern. VOA Khmer's Ten Soksreinith recently sat down with Holly Burkhalter, vice president for advocacy at IJM, to discuss the report’s findings.]
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Calls to halt controversial NGO law mount in Cambodia
Critics urge government to withdraw legislation with sweeping powers to criminalize free assembly, but the law looks likely to pass. Protesters gathered in Phnom Penh Tuesday - the second time in as many weeks - to call for parliament to withdraw controversial draft legislation aimed at regulating civil society. Clutching banners reading "Say No to Union, Association, and NGO Laws," hundreds marched through the capital despite a heavy and at times tense security force presence. "The government should not create this law because we are a democratic country and this law intends to shut down our rights," said Meng Lamey, a 19-year-old university student attending the protest.
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Two Men Charged With Attempted Rape of Tourist
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court on Wednesday charged two Cambodian men with theft and attempted rape and placed them in provisional detention after they allegedly attacked a Japanese tourist on Koh Rong island as she sat alone on a beach in the early hours of Tuesday, police said.
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Cambodia - Judicial harassment of human rights defender
On 1 July 2015, human rights defender Mr Ny Chakrya was summoned to appear before the Deputy Prosecutor of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court. He has been requested to present himself before at the Court on 13 July 2015. Ny Chakrya is Head of the Human Rights and Legal Aid Section of the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC), which was founded in 1991 to monitor the development and protection of human rights, in particular of land and natural resources rights. ADHOC provides legal assistance to victims of land rights violations and engages in land rights advocacy through press statements and conferences, publication of thematic reports and cooperation with the National Human Rights Commission.
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Ruling Party MP Slammed For Blocking Press Briefing on Cambodia NGO Law
A rights group and journalist organization on Thursday slammed a lawmaker from Cambodia’s ruling party for barring an opposition MP from addressing the media with his concerns over a controversial draft law on nongovernmental organizations currently under review by parliament. In a statement, Cambodia Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC) condemned senior Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) member and National Assembly (parliament) spokesman Chheang Von for shutting down a press briefing by Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) MP Um Sam An at the legislature.
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Dozens More Workers Faint in Three Factories
Continuing a week of mass factory faintings, more than 90 workers collapsed in three factories in Phnom Penh, Takeo and Kandal on Wednesday, bringing the total number of faintings to 274 in the past three days, officials said.
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Rescued Fishermen Return From Indonesia
Eight more rescued Cambodian fishermen were repatriated Tuesday from Indonesia’s Ambon Island, according to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, following the return of 230 others two weeks ago.
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Nine Unionists Arrested During Demonstration at Takeo Factory
Police in Takeo province on Tuesday arrested nine union officials during a protest outside an electronics factory where workers have been striking for almost three weeks, demanding wages equal to their peers in the garment sector
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Over Two Days at Two Factories, 184 Female Workers Faint
More than 180 female garment workers have fainted at two factories in Phnom Penh and Kandal province since Monday, officials said Tuesday.
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Loophole Thwarts Efforts to Combat Child Sex
When an anti-human trafficking group recently reported a 73 percent drop in the sale of children for sex, another referenced its list of 15 establishments offering minors to predators as evidence to the contrary.
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Police, Guards Block Marches Against NGO Law
Phnom Penh City Hall made good on its promise to stop a set of planned protest marches Tuesday against a draft law aiming to regulate the country’s NGOs, deploying hundreds of security guards and police around the capital to stop the demonstrators in their tracks.
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All Rallies against LANGO Barricaded
Rallies, organized throughout Phnom Penh by community members, garment factory workers, trade union members, as well as staff of associations and human rights organizations, who in unison opposed a controversial draft law, intended to restrict the freedoms of expression, assembly and association of civil society, were blocked by dozens of security forces officers in the morning of 30 June 2015. Mr Yi Soksan, a Senior Investigation Officer of local human rights organization ADHOC, who was on duty to monitor the rally coming from Niroth pagoda, reported that dozens of security forces officers were deployed on National Road 1 to block the rally.
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A Human Rights Defender Summoned to Court
A human rights defender, Mr. Ny Chakrya, Head of Human Rights and Legal Aid Section for local human rights organization, ADHOC, known for his criticism of the judicial system in Cambodia was summoned to appear before the Prosecutor to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on 13 July 2015. His summons, issued on 22 June 2015, and received by Mr Ny Chakrya personally on 01 July 2015, is a reaction to a complaint filed against him by two judicial officials of Siem Reap’s Provincial Court, Mr Sok Keo Bandith, Deputy Prosecutor and Mr Ky Rithy, Investigating Judge.
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Gov’t Sweetens Deal for Sesan Dam Families
As work moves ahead on the controversial Lower Sesan 2 dam in Stung Treng province, the Ministry of Mines and Energy met Tuesday with representatives of more than 250 families still refusing to make way for the dam’s reservoir.
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