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Unique pension plan pushed
A new union has been founded pledging to offer members a post-retirement pension with a novel twist – it will be funded by sponsorship from private companies. The head of the new Workers Retirement Fund of Cambodia Union president, Sidney Sok Ke, claims to have spent the better part of a decade coming up with the idea and drafting the union’s regulations.
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UN Human Rights Envoy Wants Quick Solution to Montagnard Situation in Cambodia
A United Nations human rights expert has called for a speedy solution to the situation of the Montagnards from Vietnam still hiding in the forests of northeastern Cambodia, after crossing the border to escape alleged persecution. “The condition of all the Montagnards while in the forests was a concern from the start and naturally becomes more worrying with the passage of time,” Wan-Hea Lee, the U.N.’s Office of the High Commission of Human Rights (OHCHR) representative in Cambodia, wrote in an email to RFA’s Khmer Service.
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Rights group: big brands should fight Cambodian labor abuse
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Leading clothing retailers such as Gap and H&M need to help alleviate labor abuses at factories in Cambodia that manufacture their products, a human rights organization said. New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday that a special program to safeguard workers' interests instituted by the U.N.'s International Labor Organization is subject to evasion that leaves factory employees vulnerable to unhealthy working conditions and unfair pay and benefits.
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Women have it hardest in Cambodia's apparel industry: Report
The Cambodian government is failing to protect garment workers - mostly women - from labour rights abuses, the independent New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its latest report.
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Cambodia, Australia further discuss refugee resettlement plan
PHNOM PENH, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong met with Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton on Thursday to further discuss a refugee resettlement plan following an agreement struck by the two countries in September. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Cambodian spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Koy Kuong said Dutton told Hor Namhong that in a pilot project, Australia will send between three and five refugee-families in Nauru to Cambodia, but there is no exact date of the sending
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H&M to stop short-term labour contracts at suppliers
Fashion retailer H&M is to impose stricter requirements on the use of short-term, fixed duration contracts for workers at its supplier factories after acknowledging their use restricts worker rights. The Swedish firm revealed its plans as it responded to a new report - “Work Faster or Get Out: Labor rights abuses in Cambodia’s garment industry” - from pressure group Human Rights Watch (HRW). Alongside issues such as discrimination against pregnant workers, forced overtime and retaliation against those who refuse overtime, and unfair treatment of union workers, the report also points to the failure of government labour inspectors to protect workers’ rights.
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HRW: Cambodia Failing to Protect Garment Workers
A leading U.S.-based rights group said Thursday the Cambodian government is still failing to protect workers in the country’s vital garment sector. In a new report, Human Rights Watch says Cambodia’s mainly female workforce has to contend with an array of abuses, including forced overtime, harassment and a lack of help at factories for pregnant women
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Beehive Radio Employees on Strike; Sonando Defiant
Ten of Beehive Radio’s 22 employees protested outside the station’s headquarters in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Wednesday in a fifth day of strikes over owner Mam Sonando’s decision not to pay last month’s wages to four staff members he claims failed to regularly show up to work.
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Cambodia Garment Workers Face Routine Rights Abuse, Report Says
(Bloomberg) -- Cambodia’s government and global clothing brands need to do more to protect garment workers from abuses such as forced overtime and discrimination, a rights group said. Many factories unlawfully use short-term contracts to avoid paying benefits and indiscriminately fire workers, and verbal abuse and sexual harassment is common in the female-dominated industry, Human Rights Watch said Thursday in a report titled “Work Faster or Get Out.” Both the government and global producers need to commit to enforcing the law and ending abuse, the group said.
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Top Court Denies Bail for CNRP Official, Activist
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld previous decisions to deny bail to CNRP information department chief Meach Sovannara, who was jailed in November on insurrection charges relating to a July protest led by the opposition that erupted into a brawl between demonstrators and municipal security guards.
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Recently Bailed Union Leader Vows to Continue Strike Activity
A combative union leader who was released on bail last week pending trial on charges of extortion and making threats during a strike last month vowed Wednesday to continue leading his militant brand of industrial action if workers called upon him.
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Battambang Residents Protest Over Land Redistribution Plans
About 70 villagers representing hundreds of families living in Battambang City’s Prek Preah Sdech commune protested outside the provincial hall Tuesday over fears that local authorities intend to evict them to make way for military families.
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‘Arrogant’ NGOs mocked
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday lashed out at a group of NGOs that boycotted this week’s consultation on two election-related draft laws at the National Assembly, characterising them as prima donnas that consider their presence more important than other interested groups. Speaking at a graduation ceremony at the National Institute for Education, the premier slammed the Electoral Reform Alliance (ERA) for skipping Monday’s meeting, which saw the two major political parties publicly defend a new National Election Committee law and amended election law.
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Prime Minister Diagnoses NGOs With ‘Main Character Syndrome’
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday chided a group of NGOs who boycotted a seminar on a pair of proposed election laws, saying the groups suffered from “main character syndrome.”
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Four Montagnards Sent Back to Vietnam by Cambodia Are Missing
At least four of the three dozen Montagnards who were deported to Vietnam last month by Cambodian authorities after they were discovered hiding in the forest have disappeared from their villages in Vietnam, according to other members of the group.
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Activists identify advances and risks in the combat of human rights violations
Technology is also important for activists in situations where the government censures other media. This is the case in Cambodia, where Sopheap Chak runs CCHR (Cambodian Center for Human Rights) and freedoms of the press and of expression are frequently denied.
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Trafficked threesome back home
Three trafficking victims were repatriated yesterday from Malaysia and South Africa after being cheated into travelling abroad for work, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong said in a statement yesterday that the Cambodian Embassy in Malaysia, in cooperation with local authorities, rescued two women – one from Takeo province and one from Phnom Penh – who had been tricked into working there almost one year ago.
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Workers Protest After Factory Owner Disappears
More than 30 workers from a bankrupt Chinese-owned garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district protested Tuesday outside the municipal court calling for the issuance of an injunction to ensure the factory’s 300 former employees receive their severance pay.
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Factory payout lacking: union
Workers at a factory that recently shuttered due to bankruptcy protested yesterday and vowed to continue to do so, after they were paid only part of their severance stipulated under the Kingdom’s Labour Law. Kui Xing factory in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district closed its doors on January 31. But Free Trade Union representative Ry Sithinet yesterday said management only paid workers for their wages for February and unused annual leave, significantly less than the law demands in this situation.
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In New Election Body Law, Room for Mischief
The opposition hailed the rewriting of Cambodia’s election laws a success on Monday, with the completion of the bills coming eight months after it ended its parliamentary boycott for pledges of a comprehensive overhaul of the National Election Committee.
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