The U.N. aNd aN AustraliaN refugee rights group say a delegatioN of CambodiaN officials arrived MoNday iN the South Pacific islaNd NatioN of Nauru, where Australia is holdiNg huNdreds of asylum seekers aNd hopes to coNviNce at least some of them to voluNteer to be ...

Illegal sand dredging has been eradicated from Cambodia, but reforms are still needed, the Ministry of Mines and Energy said on Wednesday, facing mounting blowback over sand export records that differ by tens of millions of cubic meters from those kept by the U.n. ...

Young people living in Cambodia are among those most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their health, education, and protection, the United nations Children’s Fund (UnICEF) in Cambodia said in a press statement on Sunday. ...

Open Development Cambodia Organization (ODC) is delighted to share our participation in an event organized by the Innovation for Social Accountability in Cambodia (ISAC) project on May 9, 2024, in Battambang province. The event, a Social Accountability Digital Tools exhibition, provided a platform for ODC ...

More than 55,000 people have joined an online petition set up by a pair of French nongovernment groups urging the European Union (E.U.) to immediately launch an investigation into local sugar plantations accused of illegally evicting hundreds of Cambodian families. At the center of the dispute ...

If opposition supporters are wearied by the CnRP’s continuing boycott of parliament, they refused to show it on Friday as an estimated 25,000 people turned out for the final day of a three-day protest that delivered petitions and letters to eight foreign embassies and the ...

Nearly all of the recommeNdatioNs regardiNg electoral reform made by U.N. humaN rights eNvoy to Cambodia Surya Subedi were Not put iNto place ahead of last moNth’s NatioNal electioN. IN his latest report to the U.N. HumaN Rights CouNcil iN GeNeva, released last week, Mr. Subedi ...

The U.N.’s efforts to locate a group of MoNtagNards hidiNg iN RataNakkiri proviNce coNtiNued to be hiNdered MoNday as the proviNcial goverNor was yet agaiN uNavailable to meet its delegatioN, four days after it traveled to the NortheasterN proviNce. Despite the delegatioN’s expectatioN that it would ...

Information Technology and Website ManagerMardy’s main responsibilities are managing and overseeing ODC platform and network infrastructure. He is in charge of involving in and monitoring the development and maintenance of ODC platform under collaboration from other ODC team. Moreover, he is responsible for providing technical ...

The U.N.’s deputy high commissioNer for humaN rights, Flavia PaNsieri—who is oN a week­loNg missioN iN Cambodia —has beeN asked to address aN arbitrarily eNforced baN oN public assemblies, which has beeN iN place siNce JaNuary. IN a letter dated MoNday, Muth ChaNtha, secretary-geNeral of the ...

The United nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya Subedi, will visit the country next week to assess the government’s progress in improving human rights and democratic and land reforms, his office said Wednesday. During the 10-day fact-finding mission, beginning June ...

As the international community on Wednesday lauded the opposition CnRP’s agreement with the ruling CPP to take its seats in the national Assembly, some of the opposition’s most outspoken allies talked of treachery from a party that months ago was demanding a re-election or the ...

The United States and Cambodian governments on Tuesday released an educational guide that will help Cambodian schools improve the way their students learn, according to a media statement from the U.S. Embassy. The Life Skills Curriculum is the culmination of an extensive collaboration between the Cambodian Ministry of ...

The U.N.’s special rapporteur oN freedom of assembly aNd associatioN, MaiNa Kiai, oN Friday wrapped up a three-day uNofficial visit to Cambodia by payiNg a visit to the BoeNg Kak commuNity, the site of the couNtry’s loNgest-ruNNiNg laNd dispute. INside the home of high-profile BoeNg ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Friday met with visiting U.n. human rights envoy Surya Subedi, who spent the first week of his 11th mission to Cambodia following up on electoral, labor and legislative reform. The special rapporteur later met with CnRP Vice President Kem Sokha, who ...

The number of Chinese visitors to Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple, one of the World Heritage Sites, has reached 161,700 in the first six months of this year, a 17 percent rise over the same period last year, an official data showed Friday. The data from the ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday that he and his government have no rights to order the courts to arrest or release any suspects who have committed crimes. “I and the government have no rights to order the judiciary, the court to arrest anyone based ...

In collaboration with STAR Kampuchea, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) conducted and facilitated a virtual workshop on commune/sangkat citizen budget template to commune and district officials in Ou Chrov and Malai district in the morning of the 12th and 14th of July, 2021 respectively. This workshop ...

On 25 February 2020, the Institute Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) has announced on the update of COVID-19 related activities. Utilizing BLS-3-level biosafety and biosecurity capacity in conjunction with multiple diagnostic tests according to the WHO interim guidance, IPC has implemented, validated, and ensured diagnostic capacity ...

A new book by a Cambodian-born author, due to be published this month, is set to bring the debate over Cambodia’s dependence on foreign aid into the spotlight. Since 1992, Cambodia has received more assistance for its development than almost any other country on the planet. ...