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Trade union leader threatened with arrest has CCU leads workers’ rights campaign
Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU) under presidency of Mrs. Yang Sophorn has been leading the organization of a workers strike at the Tai Yang I, II and CamWell factories in Kandal province. The workers started the strike after the company refused to enter negotiations with CATU representatives on five key workers requests.
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Trade union leader threatened with arrest has CCU leads workers’ rights campaign
Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU) under presidency of Mrs. Yang Sophorn has been leading the organization of a workers strike at the Tai Yang I, II and CamWell factories in Kandal province. The workers started the strike after the company refused to enter negotiations with CATU representatives on five key workers requests.
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Assessment of Public-Private Partnerships in Cambodia: Constraints and Opportunities
This report is a diagnostic assessment of the readiness of Cambodia to develop and manage public–private partnerships (PPPs). It was prepared jointly with the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), and it is part of a series of studies being prepared by the Southeast Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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Meet the Boeung Kak Lake 15 Biographies
In May 2012, 15 activists from the Boeung Kak Lake community in Phnom Penh were arrested in relation to a land dispute that displaced thousands of families. Thirteen of them have been convicted and are now serving prison terms; the remaining two were released from pretrial detention on June 15 but still face charges. This document features photographs and biographies of each of the 15 activists.
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Cambodia Imprisoned for Speaking out
On 24 May 2012, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced 13 women community representatives from Boeung Kak Lake in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh to two-and-a-half years in prison. They had been arrested during a peaceful protest to support some of those whose homes had been destroyed in the forced eviction of thousands of families living around the lake. On the day of trial, two other community representatives were arrested outside the court and charged with the same offences; after spending over 20 days in pre-trial detention, they were released on bail on 15 June 2012.
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The Appellate Court of Cambodia
The Appeal Court is a centralized appeal court, located in Phnom Penh, empowered to hear all appeals on questions of law and/or fact in criminal and civil judgments handed down in all first instance courts throughout the Kingdom of Cambodia (“Cambodia”). Any steps to introduce regional Appeal Courts will increase the accessibility of appeal proceedings to all Cambodians who may wish to appeal civil or criminal judgments but who face obstacles of geographical isolation and insufficient means to travel to Phnom Penh – and would therefore represent a positive step in terms of access to justice in Cambodia
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Release of Boeung Kak lake activists overshadowed by failure to achieve justice and further violence against peaceful demonstrators
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) welcomes the release today of thirteen women activists from Boeung Kak Lake but condemns the Appeal Court for its failure to overturn the guilty verdicts entered against these women by the Phnom Penh Capital Court of First Instance and the use of force by authorities against demonstrators who had come out in support of the thirteen.
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Release of Boeung Kak lake activists overshadowed by failure to achieve justice and further violence against peaceful demonstrators
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) welcomes the release today of thirteen women activists from Boeung Kak Lake but condemns the Appeal Court for its failure to overturn the guilty verdicts entered against these women by the Phnom Penh Capital Court of First Instance and the use of force by authorities against demonstrators who had come out in support of the thirteen.
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Release of Boeung Kak lake activists overshadowed by failure to achieve justice and further violence against peaceful demonstrators
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) welcomes the release today of thirteen women activists from Boeung Kak Lake but condemns the Appeal Court for its failure to overturn the guilty verdicts entered against these women by the Phnom Penh Capital Court of First Instance and the use of force by authorities against demonstrators who had come out in support of the thirteen.
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Release of 13 Boueng Kak representatives tainted by police violence
Phnom Penh, June 27, 2012 - We, the above organizations, welcome the release today of the 13 jailed Boeung Kak (BK) representatives but strongly condemn police violence against BK residents trying to reach the appeal court and regret that the convictions against the 13 were upheld despite the government’s failure, again, to present any evidence of the alleged crimes.
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