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New Report Reveals Distrust Between NGOs and Government
More than two months of research into relations between NGOs and the government was officially presented in Phnom Penh yesterday, with an overriding message of distrust, and concerns that the proposed NGO Law will be repressive.
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Boeng Kak Activists Protest State Violence Against Women
Less than a week after she was released from prison pending a retrial on controversial criminal charges laid down last year, housing right activist Yorm Bopha yesterday led a march of about 500 people to deliver a petition calling on the government to end its violent assaults on women.
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Transparency NGOs Call for CPP to End Parking Corruption
A group of NGOs released a statement yesterday calling on the CPP government of Prime Minister Hun Sen to begin its program of promised post-election reforms by ending the practice of overcharging for motorcycle outside of local markets.
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ILO Says Unemployment Low, Vulnerability High
A Report releases yesterday by International Labor Organization (ILO) says the unemployment rate in Cambodia is only 2.7 percent, though most workers remain vulnerable due to a lack og written contracts and informal employment arrangement.
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Farmers Accuse Mining Company of Threatening Land Grab
Some 300 farmers protected for a second day at their local commune office in Preah Vihear province yesterday against a mining company they accuse of threatening to steal their land unless they accepted its compensation offer to relocate.
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Report Says More Than 10 Percent of Children Are ‘Laborers’
More than 10 percent of children in the country aged between five and 17 work as laborers, with more than 5 percent engaged in “hazardous labor,” a situation that must be addressed by government, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in report released yesterday.
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SL Factory Agrees to Reinstate 19 Union Representatives
Management at the SL Garment Factory yesterday agreed to reinstate 19 fired union representative around whom a bitter standoff between workers and bosses has played out. On November 19, the factory was given 5 days by the government to reinstate the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCAWDU) workers or face legal action.
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Labor Minister Proposes Annual Wage Rise
The government is considering raising the minimum wage for the country’s garment workers every year for the next five years, Labor Minister Ith Sam Heng said after a meeting yesterday with manufacturers and unions on increasing the current monthly salary of 80$. Mr. Sam Heng presided over a meeting with the four technical working groups tasked with determining a new minimum wage for the 350,000-plus workers employed in the $4 billion garment industry. The wage is set to be raised in January, but no amount has yet been specified.
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New Report Highlight Strained NGO-Government Relationship
The relationship between Cambodia’s many NGOs and the government is suffering due to a number of government obstacles, such as bribery, when it comes to registration of NGOs and the fact that officials regularly ignore civil society recommendations, a new report claims.
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ACU Holds Meeting, Discusses Agreement With Coca-Cola
Officials from the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) and the National Council for Anti-Corruption held a closed-door meeting at ACU yesterday to discuss a number of claim of corruption made this month, as well as upcoming agreement with the Coca-Cola Company, according to a statement.
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More Khmer Krom Apply as KRT Civil Parties
The continued investigation of case 003 and 004 by Khmer Rouge tribunal’s international Co-Investigating Judge, Mark Harmon, is inspiring more khmer Krom victims of the regime to apply to participate as civil parties in the proceeding, the Minority Rights Organization (MIRO) said yesterday.
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NGOs Reject Claim that Virachey Park Safe From Loggers
Non-governmental groups working in Ratanakkiri province yesterday said illegal logging across the province’s northern forests was still rife, a day after former Environment Minister Mok Mareth called reports of such activity exaggerated.
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Police Guns to Be Tested After Civilian Shootings
AS part of the investigation into the shooting of bystanders and unarmed protesters in Stung Meanchey two weeks ago, the weapons used by police officers at the protest will be collected and compare to the bullets extracted from victims’ bodies, municipal police chief Chuon Sovan said yesterday.
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Government Prepares Civil Service Pay Overhaul
The government is forming an inter-ministerial committee to investigate changes to the salaries of Cambodia’s tens of thousands of state employee, whose low pay is widely blamed for pervasive corruption and poor public services.
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Kandal Police to Investigate Lawmaker’s Fatal Hit-and-Run
Kandal provincial police plan to investigate a fatal hit-and-run traffic accident in Kien Svay district on Friday in which an SUV transporting CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap drove away after colliding head-on with a young couple on a motorbike, killing the woman and seriously injuring her husband, a police official said yesterday.
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Technology used to promote human rights in Cambodia
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) said in a statement that it has launched today — 28 November 2013— the “Sithi Hub”, the first physical human rights technology hub in the Kingdom of Cambodia (“Cambodia”), where innovators and human rights advocates can get together, share ideas, exchange information and knowledge, attend weekly trainings, forums and talks, and develop new and innovative ways to use technology to protect and promote human rights.
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Supreme Court Chamber Orders Second KR Trial Immediately
In the interested of justice, it is now “imperative” that a new trial panel be established to hear genocide charges against Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan as soon as possible, the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Supreme Court Chamber said in a decision released yesterday.
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Court Refuses to Investigate Complaint Over Police Shooting
A student who filed a complaint to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against the city’s municipal and military police chiefs over the fatal police shooting at the SL Garment Factory protest on November 12 said yesterday that the court has refused to investigate his complaint.
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Ex-Environment Minister Says Deforestation Exaggerated
Former Environment Minister Mok Mareth yesterday accused the media of having “twisted the truth” in reporting on illegal logging in Ratanakkiri province, where rights group and independent forestry monitors say the natural environment is being pillaged and ethnic minority communities impoverished by illegal loggers and agro-industry companies.
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Campaign Against Gender Violence Launched
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs, NGOs and several U.N. agencies yesterday launched the 13th annual campaign against gender-based violence, which this year is focused on rape, organizers said yesterday.
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