Cambodian News

As Cambodia undergoes a review at the UN’s Human Rights Council in Geneva, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday member states should be concerned over recent deteriorations of basic freedoms.
Under the Human Rights Council, member states are reviewed every four years. In a submission to the council, Human Rights Watch underscored political violence, impunity for senior [...]

The human trafficking situation has become more and more complicated across the country, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
Many human trafficking rings have been discovered in numerous localities nationwide on a large scope and scale.
Most of the trafficking of children and women has taken place in border areas with China, Laos [...]

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) — A fifth suspect was arrested last week in Banteay Meanchey province and charged in connection with the foiled bomb plot on Jan. 2 in Phnom Penh, national media said on Monday.
Fifty-seven-year-old vendor Pov Sovannara “is the fifth person arrested in link with the Tiger Head Movement, [...]

Over 150 poor urban families were forcibly evicted from central Phnom Penh in Cambodia at the weekend. The vast majority of them have been left homeless.
Cambodian security forces and demolition workers carried out the evictions of 152 families from Dey Kraham community in the early hours of Saturday. At around 3am, an estimated 250 police, [...]

The Cambodian authorities must stop denying people the right to housing and ensure adequate compensation and restitution for over 150 poor urban families who were forcibly evicted from central Phnom Penh at the weekend, Amnesty International said today.
Cambodian security forces and demolition workers forcibly evicted 152 families from Dey Kraham community in the early hours [...]

Standing in cold artic winds blowing down from Canada through Tyler last week, Kenny Rigsby, 27, blew on his hands and hugged himself. He’d been standing silently in the icy wind for an hour waiting for someone to speak to.
The cold was nothing, Rigsby said, if a single person would break the silence, pick up [...]

HANOI (AFP) — A court in communist Vietnam has jailed five people for up to 17 years for trafficking women to Malaysia and forcing them to work as prostitutes, a court official and media reports said Tuesday.
The gang had sent 18 women from Vietnam’s poor southern Mekong delta region to Malaysia over the past three [...]

(New York, December 28, 2008) – Cambodian authorities should exonerate and free Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun, who were unfairly sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2005 for the murder of labor leader Chea Vichea, said three international human rights organizations and the world’s largest trade union confederation in a joint statement released [...]

PHNOM PENH, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) — Cambodia and Malaysia will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for anti-human trafficking cooperation, a Cambodian governmental official said here on Tuesday.
“We are preparing the draft MoU for anti-human trafficking cooperation between the Cambodian an Malaysian governments and it will be inked soon,” Ith Rady, [...]

The International Labor Organization has renewed criticism of Cambodian authorities for their failure to solve the murders of union leaders, according to a report by an ILO committee obtained by VOA Khmer.
The report details the killing of union leaders Chea Vichea and Ros Sovannareth, who were killed in 2004, and Hy Vuthy, killed in 2007, [...]