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UN thwarted in Ratanakkiri again
The UN revealed yesterday that a mission to Ratanakkiri province aimed at helping dozens of Montagnard asylum seekers in hiding there is being blocked by local authorities, who are not allowing them to travel in the area unless it is to leave. The mission coincides with reports that six more Montagnards – an indigenous group from Vietnam’s central highlands – have fled to Cambodia, bringing the total number of asylum seekers in hiding in the Kingdom to 38.
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Thai Army Says It’s Too Early to Lay Blame for Loggers’ Deaths
Thailand’s army has asked Cambodia “not to jump [to] the conclusion” that its soldiers were to blame for the deaths of three Cambodian loggers who were shot dead earlier this month while searching for rosewood across the border, according to Thai media. Thai Army spokesman Winthai Suwaree called the deaths of the three men “inconclusive” and said that authorities in the country were still investigating the case, the Bangkok Post reported Tuesday.
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Youth Driving Change in Cambodian Gender Norms
WASHINGTON— Currently women political leaders are not creating a substantial impact in Cambodia. But a new report from the U.S. Agency for International Development says the symbolic representation of women leaders is shifting the attitude of young Cambodians, who are the driving force for greater equality. Despite policy requirements from the Cambodian government to “mandate female representation on leadership committees,” male leaders remain prominent across all areas of the government, says the report titled "Women’s Leadership as a Route to Greater Empowerment."
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Youth Driving Change in Cambodian Gender Norms
WASHINGTON—Currently women political leaders are not creating a substantial impact in Cambodia. But a new report from the U.S. Agency for International Development says the symbolic representation of women leaders is shifting the attitude of young Cambodians, who are the driving force for greater equality. Despite policy requirements from the Cambodian government to “mandate female representation on leadership committees,” male leaders remain prominent across all areas of the government, says the report titled "Women’s Leadership as a Route to Greater Empowerment."
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Three More Women Faint as Factory Reopens
The Labor Ministry official in charge of garment factory faintings declared Wednesday’s reopening of a Svay Rieng province factory—where 100 workers fainted in the past week due to chemical fumes—a relative success, with only three more women collapsing while working. The Taiwanese-owned You Li International factory was ordered shut after mass faintings on Friday and Monday, but was allowed to open on Wednesday on the condition that it improved ventilation.
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Trafficking, trauma linked: study
Nearly two-thirds of surveyed survivors of human trafficking in Southeast Asia show symptoms of depression, while another 40 per cent suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a new study. The research, which was published yesterday in Lancet Global Health and included input from Cambodian victims, found the highly exploitative and dangerous conditions frequently endured by human-trafficking victims inflict an immense psychological toll.
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Army not to blame in shootings, Thais say
The Thai army yesterday publicly dismissed Cambodia’s censure following the shooting deaths of three citizens allegedly killed in the most recent spate of border fire attributed to Thai soldiers. Army spokesman Colonel Winthai Suwaree suggested on Tuesday that Cambodia had jumped to conclusions and laid overly hasty blame for the deaths on the Thai army. According to Winthai, the cause behind the February 5 deaths of the three Cambodian men along the border remains inconclusive.
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Local Unions Join Right-to-Strike Campaign
Three of the country’s largest unions on Wednesday added their voices to a global campaign urging member states of the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Governing Body, which Cambodia recently joined, to not revoke the option to go on strike as a fundamental right. The call comes ahead of an ILO meeting in Geneva later this month between governments, unions and employers on the ILO’s Convention 87, which covers the right to organize and the right to freedom of association.
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Lawmakers ask ministry to halt UDG eviction
Parliament's Human Rights Commission has asked the Ministry of Justice to suspend a court verdict that could see 20 Koh Kong families, who are holding out against giant Chinese firm Union Development Group, lose their homes. The families, from Kiri Sakor district’s Koh Sdach commune, were ordered to demolish their homes within 15 days of the verdict on February 2.
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Government Standing By Decision to Not Renew Activist’s Visa
The Ministry of Interior on Wednesday said it was standing by its decision to not renew the visa of outspoken environmental activist Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson in the face of mounting pressure from fellow activists, NGOs, unions, students and monks—even opposition leader Sam Rainsy—to reverse course.
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Cambodia needs to prioritise access to information law
Over the past few weeks, the government has repeatedly asserted its intention to introduce a state secrets law in Cambodia. In a country that has not yet adopted a solid access to information law and has showed no hesitancy in restricting freedom of expression, such declarations are a cause for serious concern. In fact, the public right of access to information is not only the other side to freedom of expression, it is the backbone of democracy.
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Factory to Reopen After Mass Faintings
A garment factory in Svay Rieng province where more than 100 workers fainted in recent days invited six monks to drive out the building’s “bad spirits” on Tuesday and will reopen on Wednesday after agreeing to improve the facility’s ventilation. Workers at the Taiwanese-owned You Li International factory, which has about 1,800 employees, collapsed after witnessing co-workers vomit while handling glue on two separate occasions on Friday and Monday. The provincial labor department ordered the facility in Bavet City to close on Monday, citing “hot weather and a lack of oxygen” for the incidents.
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Refugees should be treated fairly: Todd
US Ambassador William Todd has spoken out about ongoing arrivals of Montagnard asylum seekers from Vietnam, saying that the international community is concerned about their treatment and urging the government to give the fleeing Christian minority unimpeded access to “internationally accepted asylum procedures”. At least 32 asylum seekers are believed to be hiding out in the jungles of Ratanakkiri province as authorities search for them.
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NGOs Come to Defense of Koh Kong Dam Critic
Thirty-one local NGOs and unions on Tuesday condemned the government’s decision to not renew the visa of outspoken environmental activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson and urged the authorities to reverse course. The rights groups, unions, communities and associations issued a joint statement calling the Interior Ministry’s refusal to renew the Spanish national’s visa, which expires Friday, a clear attack on legitimate dissent in the interests of one of the country’s most powerful families.
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Sentences for trio in girl’s rape
Three high school students were handed prison terms and hit with $1,000 fines by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday for statutory rape after having sex with a 14-year-old girl last year. Presiding judge Top Chhunheng sentenced students Hun Chandara, 23, and Toch Khemarin, 18, to five years in prison, and co-defendant Chov Sivoeng, 17, to two-and-a-half-years in prison on charges of having sexual intercourse with a minor under 15 years of age.
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City Hall Bans Drones After Palace Incident
City Hall on Monday announced a ban on the use of drones without prior approval, declaring them a threat to privacy and security, highlighted on Saturday when a drone flew over the Royal Palace and alarmed Queen Mother Norodom Monineath. The increasing use of drones by television companies and enthusiasts prompted municipal authorities to issue an injunction to protect the city’s residents from invasions of their privacy and the dangers posed by drones’ misuse, according to a statement released by City Hall.
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Arrested Montagnard emerges after 12 days
A Montagnard asylum seeker who was arrested and deported earlier this month along with his wife and three children has returned to a heavily guarded home after being detained and interrogated for 12 days by Vietnamese authorities. Ethnic Jarai villager Klan Ren said that his brother, Klan Pen, who had been detained in Vietnam since his deportation from Cambodia on February 1, was released on Thursday. “They released him, but … they [authorities] are stationed around his house, especially at night, because they do not want him to escape. He is in the house and cannot do anything,” Ren said.
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Mothers could see pardons
In an unanticipated act of leniency yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen established a new committee to deliver pardons to mothers jailed with their children, according to several attendees of the conference where the announcement was made. “The prime minister ordered … a working group to immediately count all women in jail with their children in all prisons in Cambodia so that he can request pardons from the King before Khmer New Year,” said Serey Kosal, a senior minister.
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Bavet Factory Ordered to Close After Mass Faintings
The Svay Rieng provincial labor department on Monday ordered a Taiwanese-owned garment factory to temporarily close and improve its ventilation after more than 100 workers collapsed in two separate mass faintings in recent days. Ou Sothoeun, deputy director of the provincial labor department, said 63 workers collapsed Friday and another 41 on Monday, prompting the government to order the You Li International factory in Bavet City to cease operations for the time being.
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Mothers could see pardons
In an unanticipated act of leniency yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen established a new committee to deliver pardons to mothers jailed with their children, according to several attendees of the conference where the announcement was made. “The prime minister ordered … a working group to immediately count all women in jail with their children in all prisons in Cambodia so that he can request pardons from the King before Khmer New Year,” said Serey Kosal, a senior minister. The announcement – made in the middle of the National Council for Women’s annual gathering – appears to have caught even the ministries tasked with the amnesty scheme off-guard.
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