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UN Blasts Vatican Over Child Sex Abuse Cases
BERLIN – A U.N. committee day issues a scathing indictment of the Catholic Church’s handling of child sexual abuse cases involving clerics, releasing a report that went far beyond how the church managed abuse allegations to include criticism of its teachings on homosexuality, gender equality and abortion.
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Trash Collectors Back to Work With Pay Raise
A strike by hundreds of workers at Phnom Penh’s waste collection firm ended yesterday after their employer, Cintri, agreed to the strikes’ demands to raise wages and improve working conditions.
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CMAC Closes Probe Into Fire Amid Allegations of Curruption
The Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) said yesterday that it has closed its investigation into a fire at an equipment repair workshop in Battambang City on January 24 that destroyed equipment and vehicles worth an estimated $400,000.
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Villagers Sued for Property Damage By
Four villagers locked in a land dispute with an agribusiness firm in Banteay Meanchey province said yesterday that they had been summoned to the provincial court over a property damage lawsuit filed by the company.
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US Ambassador Calls for Curbs on Corruption
U.S Ambassador Willliam Todd yesterday used his weekly newspaper column to urge Cambodia’s government to immediately conduct reforms that would even the country’s economic playing field, curb corruption, restore democratic freedoms and generally address the concern of citizens who want change.
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Killing of Journalist May Not Be Linked to Illegal Fishing Reports
Police in Kompong Chhnang province yesterday said they were looking for three suspects in the murder of a local journalist on Friday night and may soon add more names to the list, but still had no motive for the attack.
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To Identify ‘Squatters,’ Ministers Focus on Land Demarcation
The ministers of land management, agriculture and environment in Phnom Penh on Monday to discuss the demarcation of state land and plans to manage forest and economic land concessions. In a joint statement, Evironment Minister Say Sam Al, land Management Minister Im Chhun Lim and Agriculture Minister Uk Rabun said the talks were part of efforts to reform land policy.
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Phnom Penh Trash Collectors Dance for Demands
Piles of garbage festered on the streets of Phnom Penh yesterday as hundreds of workers employed by the city’s refuse collection company, ,Clintri, continued to strike for higher wages and better working conditions.
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Families, Lawmakers Denied Access to 23 Prisoners
Family members as well as opposition CNRP lawmakers were denied access yesterday to 23 unionists and protesters arrested in early January during protests for a higher minimum wage for garment workers that culminated in five people shot dead by military police.
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Unions Argue Over Wage Committee Reforms Company
Meeting for a minimum wage workshop yesterday, the country’s independent and government aligned unions argued over reforms to that Labor Advisory Committee (LAC), the body in charge of setting the minimum wage in the garment sector, which employs some 600,000 workers.
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Sanando Continues to Seek TV License, Radio Relay Station
Though the Ministry of Information has repeatedly rejected independent radio station owner Mam Sonando’s requests to obtain a television station license and a radio relay station, saying that there was “no space” for him, the government has approved at least three new TV licenses and 16 new radio relay stations since 2011, according to records on the ministry’s website.
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Rainsy to Meet Cambodian Workers in South Korea
Opposition CNRP leader Sam Rainsy is to meet with Cambodian migrant workers during a two-day trip to South Korea later this week, at the end of a European tour that has included stops in Geneva, Brussels and Paris.
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Following ‘Confusion,’ CNRP Clarifies Position on Youth Activist
CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann yesterday confirmed the authenticity of a statement released by the party on Saturday starting that the outspoken 19-year-old opposition activist Thy Sovantha is not “not involved” with the CNRP
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NO Results in Protest Shooting Investigations
At 10 a.m. on January 3, about 2,000 members of the security forces, mostly military police, advanced down Phnom Penh’s factory-lined Veng Sreng Street, spraying AK-47 assault rifle fire into a crowd of about 100 protesters who had been throwing stones and crude Molotov cocktails.
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City’s Trash Collectors Demand Better Salary, Condition
About 200 employees of Phnom Penh’s waste disposal company Cintri protested yesterday morning outside the company’s truck depot in Meanchey district, demanding improvements in working conditions and an increase in their base salary.
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Activists Say Human Rights Delegate Lied to United Nations
Mak Sambath, deputy chairman of the government’s Human Rights Committee, came under fire yesterday from activists who accused him of lying to the U.N. in Geneva regarding land issues and the displacement of affected people.
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Human Rights Watch Says Anti-Union Activities Must End
The government has been urged to put stop to anti-union practices in garment factories after workers at a number of plants complained to a rights group that attempts to unionize were met with intimidation and dismissals.
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Murder Suspected Revenge Fishing Reports
Soun Chan, 44, who worked for the little-known and infrequently published Meakea newspaper, died from his injuries after he was attacked by two men with bamboo poles on Friday night Kompong Chhnang province’s Cholkiri district his employer said yesterday.
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CNRP Distances Itself from Threatened Social Media Activist
The opposition CNRP’s deputy public affairs director, Kem Monovithya, posted a statement to her official Facebook account on Saturday distancing the party from Thy Sovantha, a 19-year-old opposition activist with a large social media following, announcing that Ms. Sovantha was “not involved” with CNRP.
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UN Concerned Over Suppression of Rights
The U.N General Assembly released its latest round of recommendations to improve the human rights situation in Cambodia on Thursday following a review held last week in Geneva.
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