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Violence Against Women Is One of the Most Ervasive Violations of Human Rights
Last month, in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, a 20-year old mother of two was stripped naked and tortured until she confessed to practising sorcery. Then she was burned alive on the local rubbish dump in front of a crowd of fellow villagers.
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CCHR Releases Update of Rape Case Map and New Version of Sithi Portal on International Women’s Day
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) releases today – 8 March 2013 – an update to our “Reported Rape Cases” map. The information is gathered from news media in Khmer or English and covers reports from January 2010 to February 2013.
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CCHR Releases Update of Rape Case Map and New Version of Sithi Portal on International Women’s Day
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) releases today – 8 March 2013 – an update to our “Reported Rape Cases” map. The information is gathered from news media in Khmer or English and covers reports from January 2010 to February 2013.
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CCHR Releases Update of Rape Case Map and New Version of Sithi Portal on International Women’s Day
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) releases today – 8 March 2013 – an update to our “Reported Rape Cases” map. The information is gathered from news media in Khmer or English and covers reports from January 2010 to February 2013.
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Cambodian Journalist’s Immediate Exoneration and Release Demanded
Reporters Without Borders and the Cambodian Center for Independent Media demand the immediate and unconditional release of Mam Sonando, owner of Beehive radio, whose brief trial growing out of charges of fomenting insurrection ended on 6 March. The verdict in the case, an appeal of a lower court conviction, will be announced on 14 March.
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United States, Cambodia Promote Secondary School Dropout Prevention Program
The government of the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport promoted the School Dropout Prevention Pilot (SDPP) Program at Banteay Khmer Lower Secondary School on March 6.
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CCHR Highlights Some Positive and Negative Implications for due Process from Mam Sonando’s Appeal Hearing, and Reiterates Its Call for the Journalist’s Immediate Release
After two days of monitoring journalist and human rights defender Mam Sonando’s hearing at the Court of Appeal, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) has observed several legal and judicial developments – some positive, some negative – that have strong implications for due process in the Cambodian courts and which deserve to be highlighted.
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ADHOC Press Statement – International Women’s Day
During the first two months of this year, there were at least 124 cases reported to ADHOC relating to violence in the family; sexual harassment, unregulated migrant labor and human trafficking. ADHOC’s figures show 52 cases of violence in the family, 68 cases of sexual harassment; 40 cases of human trafficking and abuse of migrant worker’s rights, affecting 282 persons.
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ADHOC Press Statement – International Women’s Day
During the first two months of this year, there were at least 124 cases reported to ADHOC relating to violence in the family; sexual harassment, unregulated migrant labor and human trafficking. ADHOC’s figures show 52 cases of violence in the family, 68 cases of sexual harassment; 40 cases of human trafficking and abuse of migrant worker’s rights, affecting 282 persons.
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United States, Cambodia Promote Secondary School Dropout Prevention Program
The government of the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport promoted the School Dropout Prevention Pilot (SDPP) Program at Banteay Khmer Lower Secondary School on March 6.
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LICADHO Highlights Alarming Increase in Female Prisoner Population to Mark International Women’s Day
March 7, 2013 - The number of women and girls in Cambodian prisons continues to soar at an alarming rate.By mid-December 2012 there were 1,270 female inmates in the Cambodian prison system, an increase of 39% since December 2010. Women and girls represent 8% of prisoners in Cambodia but their incarceration rate has been growing four times faster than the male prison population.
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ADHOC Press Statement – International Women’s Day
During the first two months of this year, there were at least 124 cases reported to ADHOC relating to violence in the family; sexual harassment, unregulated migrant labor and human trafficking. ADHOC’s figures show 52 cases of violence in the family, 68 cases of sexual harassment; 40 cases of human trafficking and abuse of migrant worker’s rights, affecting 282 persons.
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