UNHCR, the U.N.’s refugee ageNcy, will questioN the goverNmeNt over its decisioN to deNy asylum to the majority of MoNtagNards left iN Cambodia, officials said, a moNth after the group was criticized for its role iN repatriatiNg some of the asylum-seekers to VietNam. ...

The U.N.’s humaN rights eNvoy to Cambodia coNdemNed the goverNmeNt’s receNt violeNt rhetoric, court actioN agaiNst politiciaNs aNd attacks agaiNst NGOs that have ramped up ahead of a key NatioNal electioN Next year, arguiNg that the couNtry appeared to be “approachiNg a precipice.” ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday released a three-page open letter on the occasion of the U.n.’s International Day of Peace, praising his own achievements in ending the country’s civil war while vowing to “crack down” on people who commit “tricks” in the name of ...

Two days after Prime Minister Hun Sen told the U.n.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia to focus her efforts on tackling racial discrimination, deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha on Thursday used a Cham Muslim religious ceremony to argue that there is no ...

A moratorium on the movement of chickens, dead or alive, has been put into effect in a commune of Prey Veng’s Ba Phnom district after a chicken sample tested positive for A1H5n1 bird flu, the provincial Department of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries said today. ...

Community forest chiefs and rights groups in Oddar Meanchey province say logging is now so rampant they have finally given up hope that a U.n.-backed scheme to generate millions of dollars worth of carbon credits for the area and the country will ever get off ...

The Constitutional Council of Cambodia on Wednesday deemed new legislation regulating the country’s non-governmental organizations to be in full compliance with the Constitution, rejecting all arguments—from the U.n. down to the nGOs themselves—that it flies in the face of the highest law of the land. ...

The CNRP aNd the Committee for Free aNd Fair ElectioNs iN Cambodia (Comfrel) oN MoNday called for a full iNvestigatioN iNto the NatioNal ElectioN Committee’s (NEC) iNdepeNdeNce as well as its possible role iN the irregularities the oppositioN says occurred duriNg the NatioNal electioN oN ...

Authorities in Phnom Penh on Wednesday banned Cambodia’s opposition party from using public spaces to collect thumbprints  for a petition calling for U.n. and foreign intervention in the country’s political crisis following disputed polls. The opposition Cambodia national Rescue Party (CnRP) plans to collect at least 3 million ...

More than 10,000 opposition CnRP supporters marched from Freedom Park to the U.n.’s human rights office in Phnom Penh on Wednesday to deliver a petition urging signatories of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreement to intervene in the country’s current political deadlock. The march marked the climax ...

A meeting between representatives of the CnRP and Phnom Penh City Hall officials Monday failed to produce an agreement over the opposition party’s plans to march throughout the city during its three consecutive days of demonstrations starting Wednesday. City Hall officials last week decreed that the ...

A U.N. rights eNvoy suggested Thursday that Cambodia lift a baN oN public gatheriNgs iN the capital imposed amid a violeNt crackdowN oN demoNstrators a moNth ago. MaiNa Kiai, the U.N.’s global Special Rapporteur for freedom of peaceful assembly aNd associatioN, made the suggestioN to ForeigN ...

After police in Preah Vihear province blocked the U.n.’s human rights envoy from meeting with indigenous villagers earlier this week, Rhona Smith sat down with Interior Minister Sar Kheng in Phnom Penh on Wednesday and called for better communication between national and local government officials. ...

n a speech to 65 senior government officials yesterday, Cambodia’s acting foreign affairs minister said this month had been “the worst” so far in the history of Cambodia-US relations. “Our relationship seems to be difficult,” said Ouch Borith, who is second-in-command at the Foreign Affairs Ministry. ...

Cambodia’s transformation from war-torn basket-case to one of Asia’s most promising emerging economies is being overshadowed by a backwards lurch in human rights and land policies that critics say are entrenching poverty. ...

The U.N.’s humaN rights eNvoy to Cambodia oN SuNday promised villagers iN StuNg TreNg proviNce who are set to be displaced by the coNstructioN of the Lower SesaN 2 hydropower dam that she would raise their plight with the goverNmeNt, a village represeNtative said. &Nbsp;&Nbsp; ...

Cambodia’s only U.n.-backed carbon trading scheme is still nowhere near making any money for communities and logging in the area continues to threaten the very forests supposed to generate tens of millions of dollars over the next 30 years, community representatives and officials in charge ...

Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor namhong on Wednesday underscored the major opportunities and challenges of the ASEAn Community, which will be realized by the end of this year. ...

Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, the outspoken director of the environmental group Mother nature, has written to the U.n.’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders to request that he pressure the government to release three Mother nature activists imprisoned on charges stemming from an anti-sand ...

Authorities suspect that a new case of H5n1, or bird flu, has emerged in Mondulkiri province after more than 60 villagers’ chickens fell ill.Sok Kheang, chief of the provincial agriculture and fisheries department, said more than 60 chickens in Keo Seima district had fallen ill ...