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Sar Kheng Rebukes Sam Rainsy Over Negotiations
Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday criticized opposition leader Sam Rainsy for departing on an international tour this week aimed at discrediting the one-party government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, saying that Mr. Rainsy should have remained in the country to negotiation a way out of the ongoing political impasse.
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Opposition Asks ADB To Suspend Funding to Cambodia
WASHINGTON DC - Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has asked the Asian Development Bank to suspend funding to Cambodia, whose government he says was not formed legally following the July elections. Ou Virak, head of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said domestic political forces have more potential to create change than outside pressure. “I think both sides should sit down and hold mutual talks, then in my view there would be the possibility for better results.”
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Court Hear Garment Heist Case Involving Port Workers
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday heard the case of two port workers and a military police officer charged with stealing more than 8,000 articles of clothing from a shipping container while it was being driven to the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port.
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Villagers in Land Row Complaint of Death Threat
Four representative of villagers locked in a land dispute with the well-connected KDC company have filed a complaint with the Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court after they received death threats. “The anonymous letter was a threat against our lives”.
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Minister Says Challenges Remain in Achieving Gender Equality
Woman’s Affairs Minister Ing Kantha Phavi yesterday defended the government’s police on promoting gender equality and preventing discrimination against women, but conceded that challenges remain in achieving principles set out in the U.N.’s convention to stop discrimination against woman.
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Phnom Penh Bans Cambodia Opposition’s Thumbprint Campaign
Authorities in Phnom Penh on Wednesday banned Cambodia’s opposition party from using public spaces to collect thumbprints for a petition calling for U.N. and foreign intervention in the country’s political crisis following disputed polls. Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) Director Ou Virak said Wednesday that the municipal government should lift the ban on the CNRP’s thumbprint campaign in public spaces, adding that the petition would help avoid violence amid the city’s post-election tension.
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CPP Readies for One-Party Vote On Assembly Committees
Senior CPP member selected nominees for the National Assembly’s nine permanent committees behind closed the doors yesterday while the opposition CNRP, which has continued to boycott the Assembly over July’s disputed election, urged some of Cambodia’s foreign donor to immediately sever ties with the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
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Critics Question Myanmar's Readiness To Head ASEAN
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (AP) — Just a few years ago Myanmar was an isolated dictatorship that embarrassed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations with its dismal human rights record. In Cambodia, which labors under its own delicate balance of democracy and authoritarianism, at least one analyst thinks the ASEAN leadership role will drive further reforms in Myanmar. Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said that while Myanmar's bureaucracy remains old and inefficient, "the spotlight is probably going to force Burma to reform a bit more."
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Tep Vanny—From Boeng Kak Protests to Global-Tratting Advocate
On the morning of September 23, anti-eviction champion Tep Vanny was grappling with a legion of security guards blocking the enterance of the Daun Penh district offices while fellow protesters dismantled a razor-wire barricade nearby. The next day, she was plane to Washington to meet with representative of the World Bank and U.S State Department.
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Women’s Rights Assessed by UN Committee in Geneva
Rights group yesterday shared their concerns about the treatment of woman in Cambodia with member states of the U.N Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in Geneva.
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Sam Rainsy To Ask Western Nations Not to Recognize Current Government
PHNOM PENH - Opposition leader Sam Rainsy says he is preparing for a trip to the United States and Europe, to urge Western countries not to recognize the newly formed government led by Prime Minister Hun Sen.
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Opposition Lays Out Reform Demands at ‘People’s Congress’
Amidst an opposition boycott of the National Assembly, CNRP leaders on Sunday announced to about 10,000 supporters gathered in Phnom Penh their tentative plans to push the one-party CPP government to investigate irregularities in the July election and enact a broad slate of reforms.
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Hopes for the release of Cambodian protestor
There are renewed hopes for the release of Yorm Bopha, the young woman who lead a campaign against the eviction of a community to make way for a Cambodian government-backed development, and was jailed on what human rights campaigners describe as trumped-up charges. OU VIRAK, CAMBODIAN CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: She was one out of many that the Government was trying to use as examples to create more fears, to rule by fear, to continue to rule by fear. When there was some resistance, when there was some dissent, the Government was trying immediately to crush that.
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ILO Initiative Could Unravel Cambodia’s Garment Industry: Manufacturers
A move by the International Labour Organization to name and shame garment producers in Cambodia that flout workers' rights and safety standards could damage the industry’s reputation and result in a drastic reduction in orders from buyers abroad, according to a senior manufacturing official. CCHR said that the plan would improve the lives of workers and help prevent work stoppages, adding that increasing transparency in relation to garment factory conditions should be welcomed and encouraged by companies sourcing from Cambodia.
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Sar Kheng Commends Armed Forces for Peaceful Election
Interior Minister Sar Kheng has commanded the country’s security forces for creating a safe environment during the July 28 election and post-election period leading up to convening of the National Assembly last week, according to a letter received yesterday.
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NEC Admits 270,000 Names Were Duplicated on Voter List
Just two months after contested national election, commune official across the country yesterday began the annual 20 day process of registering voters, while the National Election Committee (NEC) announced that 270,000 duplicated names would be removed from the voters list used in July.
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Complaint Lodged Against Commune Chief
Villagers have accused a CPP commune chief in Rattanakkiri province for threatening four ethnic minority Tampoun men after they filed a complaint against him for allegedly selling off community land to a local businessman. Rocham Norng, a Tampoun villager in Bakeo district, has allegaed that Soeung commune chief Roman Thaing had threatened him as well as fellow villagers Ting Kimlou, Rocham Hun and Ting Keo.
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GMAC Urges Factories to Resist New Monitoring
Following the International Labor Organization’s (TLO) announcement that is Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program will form January name and shame firms that contravene Cambodia labor law, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has urged factory operators to refuse entry to ILO monitors, unless they have government officials in tow.
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Levi Strauss Pulls Out From Embattled SL Garment Factory
A Singaporean-owned garment factory whose workers have been on strike since early August is no longer producing clothes for American denim giant Levi Strauss, a brand representative and a factory worker said yesterday.
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Housing Activist in Washington To Push for Cambodian Policy Reforms
WASHINGTON DC - Cambodian housing rights activist Tep Vanny is in Washington this week, seeking to increase international pressure on Cambodian authorities to end forced evictions and find resolutions to longstanding land disputes.
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