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Murder of journalist reporting on illegal fishing in Kampong Chhnang an affront to Freedom of Expression in Cambodia
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) deplores the death over the weekend of journalist Suon Chan, of the Khmer language newspaper Meakea Kampuchea, in Cholkiri district, Kampong Chhnang province. His death is yet another affront to freedom of expression, and in particular to freedom of the press, in the Kingdom of Cambodia (“Cambodia”), where journalists are regularly targeted for their work and where a culture of impunity for these crimes reigns. According to the Phnom Penh Post (‘Journalist beaten to death in K Chhnang,’ 3 February 2014), local authorities believe he was killed by a group of local fishermen, allegedly because of his work reporting on illegal fishing in the area.
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Cambodia: Garment Factories Thwarting Unions
The Cambodian government should ensure that garment factories stop deploying union-busting strategies and respect workers’ rights. Global apparel brands need to make sure their suppliers allow workers to form independent unions without interference, and that union representatives can be in factories without threats and retaliation.
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CCIM demands justice for slain journalists
Just days after the United Nations offered a critical review of Cambodia’s human rights record during the country’s Universal Periodic Review, yet another Cambodian journalist was murdered for reporting the news. Suon Chan became the 12th journalist to be killed in Cambodia during the past two decades when he was beaten to death on Saturday in retaliation for his reporting on illegal fishing in Kampog Chhnang, which was published in the Meakea Kampuchea newspaper.
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CCHR Releases Updated Data on Land Disputes and Land Concessions in Cambodia
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) today – 30 January 2014 – releases updated data on land disputes and land concessions in the Kingdom of Cambodia (“Cambodia”). The details of the cases of land conflict in Cambodia as well as the number of land concessions granted in 2013 by the Royal Government of Cambodia (“RGC”) are now available on CCHR’s award-winning Cambodian Human Rights Portal at www.sithi.org.
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OPCC condemns attacks on journalists covering Cambodia protests
On Monday morning, at least three photographers covering the Beehive Radio protest outside the Ministry of Information were struck by military police deployed during the demonstration. In at least one case, a Cambodian photojournalist vocally identified himself as a journalist to the officer, and all three were wearing their press cards. All were hit with batons. The OPCC condemns the unnecessary and unacceptable violence by state security forces, semi-official district and municipal guards, as well as plain-clothes attackers.
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CCHR and CLC Letter to H.E. Sar Kheng Regarding Refusal to Visit Mr.Vorn Pao and Seven Others Detainees Arrested on 2 January 2014
We, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights and the Cambodian Labour Organization would like to express our grave concern over the refusal made by the General Department of Prison of the Ministry of Interior on 24 January 2014 regarding our request to visit Mr. Vorn Pao and seven other detainees arrested during the demonstration on 2 January 2014.
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Dropping Phnom Penh Sugar without compensating its victims will not relieve ANZ’s responsibility
(January 29, 2014) Equitable Cambodia and Inclusive Development International call upon ANZ to right the wrongs it has done by financing the Phnom Penh Sugar plantation and not just jump ship.
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Joint Statement by the Royal Government of Cambodia and the United Nations high-level Delegation Regarding the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
A constructive meeting was held yesterday between Deputy Prime Minister His Excellency Dr. Sok An, Minister in charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers and Chairman of the Task Force on the Khmer Rouge Trials, and a high-level United Nations delegation led by the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, Mr Miguel de Serpa Soares, the UN Legal Counsel, accompanied by the Assistant Secretary-General, Ms Maria Eugenia Casar, the UN Controller and by Ambassador David Scheffer, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Expert on the UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials.
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ADHOC STRONGLY CONDEMNS CRACKDOWN ON FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY
Phnom Penh, 27 January 2014 – The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) strongly condemns the continued illegal and systematic crackdown on freedom of assembly in Cambodia. At least 10 people were injured, three seriously, by military police and hired thugs this morning when government critic and owner of independent Beehive Radio, Mam Sonando, attempted to demonstrate with supporters at Freedom Park and outside the Ministry of Information in Phnom Penh. January has been a bloody month for the government; at least five people have been killed and scores more injured by security forces since the governments instigated a crackdown on assemblies.
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Cambodia: UN Should Condemn Rights Onslaught
(Geneva) – United Nations member countries should press the Cambodian government on its failure to keep previous commitments and demand that it fulfill new rights pledges. On January 28, 2014, Cambodia will appear before the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva.
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Failing Cambodia human Rights Record to be Reviewed at UN as Crackdown on Protests Continues
A coalition of human rights groups will urge the international community to address the increasingly severe crackdown on free speech in Cambodia tomorrow, at the United Nations in Geneva. The human rights situation in country has deteriorated markedly since 2009, when it last underwent the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), the process by which all UN Member States are assessed on a rolling basis by the Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
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Universal Periodic Review: Address Cambodia’s human rights crisis
Ahead of the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) hearing for Cambodia on 28 January 2014, the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) and Amnesty International call on UN member states to address the country’s current human rights crisis.
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