UN to grill government over Montagnards
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. ...
Aun Pheap and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-to-grill-government-over-montagnards-130423/
UN: Cambodia ‘approaching a precipice’ amid threats, fear
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.” ...
Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-cambodia-approaching-a-precipice-amid-threats-fear-133853/
On peace day, Hun Sen promises crackdown
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 ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-peace-day-hun-sen-promises-crackdown-95019/
Kem Sokha says there’s no racism in Cambodia
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 ...
Alex Willemyns and Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kem-sokha-says-theres-no-racism-in-cambodia-95426/
Bird flu detected in Prey Veng
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. ...
Kuoch Masy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bird-flu-detected-prey-veng
As forests fall, carbon credit plan faces collapse
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 ...
Kuch Naren and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/as-forests-fall-carbon-credit-plan-faces-collapse-59938/
Council rules NGO law constitutional
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. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/council-rules-ngo-law-constitutional-91532/
CNRP, Comfrel Call for Investigation Into NEC’s Independence
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 ...
The Cambodia Daily
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-comfrel-call-for-investigation-into-necs-independence-38403/
Phnom Penh Bans Cambodia Opposition’s Thumbprint Campaign
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 ...
Radio Free Asia Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/petition-10092013174335.html
CNRP Marches Through Phnom Penh, Delivers Petition to UN
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 ...
The Cambodia Daily News Staff
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cnrp-marches-through-phnom-penh-delivers-petition-to-un-45737/
Still No Agreement Over Opposition Marches
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 ...
Mech Dara and Alex Willemyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/still-no-agreement-over-opposition-marches-45629/
UN Envoy Asks Cambodia to Lift Demonstrations Ban
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 ...
Radio Free Asia News Staff
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/rapporteur-02062014181843.html
UN envoy meets interior minister Sar Kheng
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. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-meets-interior-minister-sar-kheng-110656/
Cambodia’s ties with US frayed, says official
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. ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodias-ties-us-frayed-says-official
Insight: Land conflict, impunity dims Cambodia's awakening
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. ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/12/us-cambodia-protests-idUSBRE8AB17J20121112
UN envoy meets with Sesan villagers to discuss dam site
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; ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-envoy-meets-with-sesan-villagers-to-discuss-dam-site-110475/
Cambodia’s Carbon Credit Scheme Still Not Making Gains
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 ...
Kuch Naren and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodias-carbon-credit-scheme-still-not-making-gains-43865/
Cambodia highlights opportunities, challenges of upcoming ASEAN Community
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. ...
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-10/14/c_134713139.htm
UN asked to help imprisoned rights activists
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 ...
Kuch Naren and George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/111370-111370/
Authorities suspect bird flu in Mondulkiri
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 ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106110/authorities-suspect-bird-flu-in-mondulkiri/