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Land and Environment
A battered and blurry road sign stands at a crossroads in Preah Vihear’s Rui Feng sugarcane plantation. The text is barely legible and looks like it had been smudged with water. To the right is the Lan Feng plantation, straight ahead is Heng Rui, and further east is Heng Yue.
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Updated: Youth, CNRP, Nationalist Activists Found Guilty of Incitement
The youth activists and members from the Khmer Thavrak social justice group, Khmer Student Intelligent League Association (KSILA), and the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party, protested on the streets of Phnom Penh last year, with authorities arresting them over the course of two months, starting in August.
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Cambodia Jails Activists Who Urged Release of Top Trade Unionist
Cambodia imprisoned 10 activists on Tuesday for demonstrating in support of a prominent union leader who was jailed in August over accusations he falsely claimed that land in the Southeast Asian country had been ceded to neighboring Vietnam.
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Cambodia Amends Charter to Bar Dual Citizens from Top Office
Lawmakers in Cambodia on Monday approved an amendment to the constitution barring Cambodians with dual citizenship from holding high government office, a move initiated by Prime Minister Hun Sen and directed at prominent opposition politicians.
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Single-citizenship mandate passed with unanimous vote
Amended during the NA’s plenary session attended by its 111 members on October 25 were articles 19, 82, 106, 119 and 137 of the Constitution and articles 3 and 4 of the Additional Constitutional Law tending to ensure the regular functioning of national institutions.
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With pomp and a rare protest, Cambodia remembers peace deal
Cambodia marked the 30th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords on Oct. 23 with authorities attempting to justify the state of the country’s democracy while fending off foreign criticism of the deterioration of fundamental freedoms.
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Residents Bring Land Disputes to New Kampot Governor’s Forum
Kampot governor Mao Thonin held a public forum to address citizens’ grievances, mostly stemming from land disputes in the coastal province, with the governor coming highly recommended for his ability to resolve land conflicts.
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Cambodia’s Gender Roles Stifle Freedom of Expression among Transgender Community
Lim Borin—who coordinates the Voice for Gender Equality project at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights—said the situation of gender segregation in Cambodia has improved, but pressure on women and the LGBT community remain.
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Cambodia marks 30 years since Paris Peace Agreements
We have an excellent analysis of the gaps between the democratic potential of the Paris Peace Agreements and the realities in Cambodia today from leading human rights advocate Chak Sopheap. While I’ll let her do the talking, it’s worth noting this week saw an appeal hearing for three environmental activists from NGO Mother Nature, who were convicted of incitement in May and sentenced to 20 months in prison. A judgment is expected within weeks, but it’s likely there will be no leniency.
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Disabled singers struggle to earn a living amid the pandemic
Rim Sopheaktra, 35, has used a wheelchair since the age of 6. In 2015, she moved to Phnom Penh. There, she joined an association of diabled singers, earning about 30,000 to 40,000 riel per performance in addition to donations from philanthropists.
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30 Years of Press Coverage: Peace-Deal Commemorations’ Rising Heat
Anniversaries of the Paris Peace Agreements were not always prominent affairs. Largely overlooked by local newspapers until the landmark 20th anniversary, the day rose in visibility and contentiousness alongside the emergence of the popular opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, a look through newspaper archives shows.
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30th Paris Peace Accords anniversary rings hollow for many Cambodians
Protesting wives of jailed politicians were roughed up by police in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, while hundreds of exiles from the country rallied in Washington Friday, demanding that their government uphold the 1991 pact that ended war in the country and promised democratic freedoms and human rights.
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The Paris Peace Agreements: 30 Years Later
“To me it is clear that the Paris Peace Agreements is an ongoing document,” said Chak Sopheap, executive director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights during the U.S. Institute of Peace conference.
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Another Push for Lucrative Kampot Coastland to Remain Salt-Producing
A sub-decree from May, released publicly this week, details the creation of an inter-ministerial committee to incentivize salt production.
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Protesters Beaten Ahead of Paris Peace Agreements 30th Anniversary
Chak Sopheap, director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, agreed, saying “We have to be frank, few ordinary people are talking about the Paris Peace Agreements, but they are trying to exercise fundamental freedoms.”
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Paris Peace Agreements’ vision has yet to be realised 30 years later
The agreements signed on 23 October 1991 marked the end of a century in Cambodia marred by colonial rule, barbaric authoritarianism, a brutal genocide, foreign occupation and internal turmoil. The combined conventions and treaties sought to not only put conflict behind, but also give Cambodia independence and ensure its right to self-determination.
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Exile, False Starts, ‘Red Book’: The Years Leading to Cambodia’s Precarious Reconciliation
The late King Norodom Sihanouk, yet to be reinstated to the throne at the time, and Prime Minister Hun Sen, standing in a motorcade on the streets of Phnom Penh, their hands clasped, arms raised in triumph before a cheering crowd, the joy on their faces frozen in time and film.
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PPA legacy: Cambodia marks 30 years of Peace, Progress and Autonomy
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements (PPA) which brought the four warring factions in Cambodia to the negotiating table mediated by the international community that eventually led to an end to the more than two decades of civil strife in the country and the first democratic elections sponsored by the United Nations in 1993.
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PLAN campaign to assist girls and young women
Plan International Cambodia (PIC) announced plans to empower girls and young women in Cambodia over the next five years with its 2.5 Million Reasons campaign as it virtually celebrated the International Day of the Girl Child.
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Court hands prison sentences to eight journalists in timber extortion case
Kim Samleng, the provincial court’s deputy prosecutor, told CamboJA that seven of the journalists were sentenced to two years in prison but will serve a term of only four months and 20 days, with the rest of their sentence suspended. Those journalists are: Kim Hean, 42, Vong Nimol, 41, Kim Hong, 40, Roeung Chhon, 40, Sam Saroeun, 49, Soeung Sophy, 42, and Chhay Leav, 51.
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