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Still Losing Ground
The case studies covered in this report provide a window into the lives behind the land disputes occurring in Cambodia. This report gives an update on the land disputes and villages affected by them, and seeks to address the doubts of people like Grandma Saing and the others quoted above,as well answer the question “what next?”
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Still Losing Ground
The case studies covered in this report provide a window into the lives behind the land disputes occurring in Cambodia. This report gives an update on the land disputes and villages affected by them, and seeks to address the doubts of people like Grandma Saing and the others quoted above,as well answer the question “what next?
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Media Analysis of Rape, Trafficking for Sexual Purpose, Indecent Cases in Third Quarter 2009
According to Cambodian law, sexual abuse is a serious crime where perpetrators can be imprisoned for up to 20 years as well as being fined or given a labor penalty. This report is interested in how effectively this law is being enforced in Cambodia.
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Country Summary, Cambodia
Cambodia’s respect for human rights continued its downward spiral during 2009, with dramatic setbacks in press freedom, misuse of the judiciary to silence government critics, and imposition of strict new restrictions on peaceful protests. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party of Prime Minister Hun Sen continued to use an array of repressive tactics, including harassment, threats, violence, and arbitrary arrest, to suppress political rivals, opposition journalists, land rights activists, and trade unionists. In late 2009 the government pushed new laws through the National Assembly with little input from civil society, including a new penal code.
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United Nations Commentary and Guidelines on Eviction and Resettlement December
Evictions and resettlement processes have become major issues of concern in Cambodia, with serious consequences for the lives and well-being of individuals and communities. This booklet contains two key United Nations documents that specifically address these issues:
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The Rights of Appeal & Cambodia Inmate Transportation Crisis
Over 500 inmates with pending appeals are detained in Cambodia provinces, some of them hundreds of kilometers away from the nation only appeals court in Phnom Penh. Due to Cambodias near total lack of a long-distance inmate transportation network, these inmates are at grave risk of being denied one of the most basic elements of a fair trial The right to have a conviction and sentence properly reviewed by a higher tribunal.
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Practical Grassroots Advocacy in Cambodia Analysis of 80 Case Studies
Respondents reported several different types of advocacy cases in their communities. Responses to individual questions yielded different answers, depending on whether they were cases on land, forestry, fisheries, mining or other matters. More specifically, the causes, perpetrators, activities and results all varied depending on the type of case.
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Concern about the Forced Evictions of Urban Poor Communities in Phnom Penh
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), The Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), and The NGO Forum on Cambodia (NGO Forum) wish to express their deep concern about potential forced evictions of the urban poor people from their communities in the near future.
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INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY DEC 10, 2009
More than 10,000 Cambodians from communities around the country, including trade unionists, students, farmers, fishermen, musicians, youths, tuk tuk drivers, motorcycle drivers and NGO workers, will celebrate International Human Rights Day (IHRD) in their communities this year.
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Congratulation of the 61st Anniversary of Human Rights Day
“We all need freedom of expression and justice” and “Embrace diversity and end discrimination” throughout the Kingdom of Cambodia.
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Press Release on National Conference (Khmer)
The national conference to change victims people to a power citizen by join in court.
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A Home No More
"In February 2007, the Municipality of Phnom Penh granted a 99-year lease to the private developer Shukaku Inc. for 133 hectares of prime city-centre real estate in the capital’s Daun Penh district. The area included Boeung Kok lake, one of the few remaining natural lakes in the city, and home to some 20,000 people. Shukaku Inc. reportedly paid US$79 million for the land. Soon after, the company poisoned the morning glory many of the residents were growing on the lake as their livelihoods. In August 2008, the Government changed the status of the land from state public to state private land. Adequate reasons for this change of status were not provided and the change in fact rendered the Shukaku lease null and void. Within days filling of the lake began – using sand drawn up from the Mekong. Residents were given three options: cash compensation of US$8500, a plot in Damnak Troyung relocation site along with US$500 cash, or on-site re-development, but only after five years of temporary residence in a relocation site. Despite intimidation and violence against them, the residents protested. They appealed to to local courts, the government, the company, the Prime Minister, and even UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Nothing worked. With increasingly flooded and uninhabitable homes, more and more residents started succumbing to the pressure. In most cases, they left poorer futures having signed away land and property worth tens of thousands of dollars for US$8000 and some transportation costs. This publication documents some of the (former) residents stories."
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