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Ambassador Nominee Says US to Prioritize Fair Elections
The nominee to be the next U.S. ambassador to Cambodia told the U.S. Senate foreign relations committee this week that fair elections would be his priority, while a Cambodian government spokesman said he hoped the new ambassador would repair “bad” diplomatic relations between the countries.
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Let’s See ‘NGO Law’ for What It Is: a Muzzle on Dissenting Voices
After much public discussion, and following your article, “CPP Lawmakers Press Ahead With NGO Law” (June 24), Licadho wishes to address a general misunderstanding about the draft Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations.
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Woman Arrested for Pimping Teenage Girls to Foreigners, Locals
A woman was arrested in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district on Monday for allegedly pimping out at least seven underage girls to Cambodian and foreign men, police and an NGO said Tuesday.
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NGOs preach support, not prison, for users
With the Kingdom’s drug-using community consistently facing stigmatisation and incarceration rather than treatment, two drug-harm-reduction NGOs today are aiming to bring awareness to the global “Support, Don’t Punish” initiative, aimed at pushing for less oppressive drug policies and a focus on human rights.
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Vietnamese Swept Up for Deportation
Nearly 100 Vietnamese laborers were detained for deportation Tuesday after they were found to be working in the country illegally during a sweep of construction sites on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich island as part of the Interior Ministry’s seemingly arbitrary enforcement of the immigration law.
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W&D garment strike settled
About two weeks after walking off the job, some 1,700 workers at a Phnom Penh garment factory said they would return to work after management agreed to several concessions. In addition to conceding to 10 of the workers’ 12 demands, W&D (Cambodia) Co in the capital’s Meanchey district agreed to drop criminal complaints against union representatives, said Sous Daro, president of the Cambodian Workers Union Federation at W&D
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CPP-run commissions alone to review LANGO
Hours after hundreds of protesters at the National Assembly called for the withdrawal of the controversial draft law on associations and non-governmental organisations (LANGO), the legislative body announced that only ruling CPP-led commissions would be reviewing the heavily criticised bill.
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Trade Unions Agree on $177 Wage Demand
A group of nine trade unions representing some of the country’s 700,000 garment workers agreed on Monday to push for a $177 monthly minimum wage for the sector during fast-approaching negotiations, matching the figure they unsuccessfully lobbied for last year.
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Land Case Dropped as Elusive Accuser Fails to Show
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday dropped a three-year-old case against a group of villagers in Russei Keo district after their mysterious accuser failed for the fourth time to appear before the court.
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Developer’s complaint tossed out
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ended a long-running land dispute and dropped charges against four Boeung Chhouk community representatives, after the court found no evidence that residents committed violence against local businessman and developer Lao Tonmey.
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Child centre’s chief arrested
Four children were removed yesterday from Bethel Children’s Home of Cambodia and the centre’s director was arrested in Chhbar Ampov following a complaint alleging child abuse and neglect, including forced labour and sexually inappropriate conduct.
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More talk, fewer strikes: study
In a new study of Cambodia’s garment and footwear industry, the independent conflict resolution Arbitration Council has found that labour strikes are often triggered by factors that could be avoided through better communication between workers and management.
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CPP Lawmakers Press Ahead With NGO Law
More than 100 protesters rallied outside the National Assembly on Tuesday morning as opposition lawmakers made an unsuccessful effort to block their ruling-party counterparts from pushing ahead with a contentious law to regulate the hundreds of NGOs in the country.
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Scores arrested in construction raid
More than 200 Vietnamese and Chinese nationals were arrested yesterday at construction sites on Koh Pich in a Ministry of Interior sweep targeting illegal migrant workers. Police with the ministry picked up 131 Vietnamese nationals, including 21 females, after it was discovered that most had no relevant documents, including passports, allowing them to legally work in Cambodia.
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On Stony Ground: The Struggle to Survive in a Cambodian Social Land Concession
June 24, 2015 In March 2003, the Cambodian government unveiled a potentially progressive land policy with the aim of transferring land to landless and poor Cambodians – Social Land Concessions (SLCs). LICADHO recently investigated a $13 million SLC project, called LASED, that was implemented by the Cambodian government with support from the World Bank and the German development agency GIZ. In direct contrast with the rosy conclusions reported by both agencies, LICADHO found that the project largely failed to benefit rural poor Cambodians.
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Railway families seek more cash from ADB
Some 50 people gathered in front of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) office yesterday to demand $8,000 per family in additional compensation for hardships suffered after being relocated from their homes in Phnom Penh to make way for a railway rehabilitation project in 2011.
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Three Chinese Jailed Over Plot to Traffic Girls
Three Chinese nationals were jailed by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday for attempting to smuggle four teenage Cambodian girls to China, while the sentences of two Cambodians involved in the trafficking operation were reduced to time served.
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Pizzeria Manager Charged Over Forcing Teen to Work, Have Sex
The Moldovan manager of an Italian pizzeria and wine shop in Phnom Penh was on Monday charged with the “unlawful removal” of a 19-year-old girl from her home country whom she allegedly forced to work without pay and subjected to sexual exploitation, according to officials and an NGO.
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Int’l bank critics at risk: Report
Cambodians who have criticised World Bank-sponsored projects have been subject to persecution and violent crackdowns by security forces, all while the international financial institution remains largely silent on the matter, a new report by Human Rights Watch alleges.
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EU Commits More Than $11 Million for Voter Registry Reform
The European Union has committed to provide more than $11 million to the National Election Committee over the next three years to assist with voter registration before the 2017 commune elections and 2018 national election, election committee spokesman Hang Puthea said Monday.
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