CSOs call for an end to impunity in Cambodia on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists
To mark the United Nations’ second International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, we, the undersigned civil society organizations (“CsOs”), call upon the Royal Government of Cambodia to bring an end to Cambodia’s rampant culture of impunity, and to ensure that the perpetrators ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joint Organizations
Prey Lang ceremony will be hold in late of March
Prey Lang Community Network will hold the annual Prey Lang ceremony in late March to commemorate and preserve indigenous identities and promote the forest’s potential. According to a PLCN press release on Tuesday, the ceremony and tree blessing will be held from March 26 to 27 ss='cambodia-color'>...
Prey Lang Community Network
CCHR launches campaign calling on Cambodians to take a stance against impunity
On 2 November 2014, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) launches its annual impunity campaign to mark the United Nations’ first International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. The campaign aims to generate and relay the public’s call on the Royal Government ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian Center for Human Rights
WWF: High-risk trade in wildlife threatens ecosystems and risks exposure to zoonotic diseases
On 10 July 2020, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has warned that snaring of animals has become a crisis that poses a serious risk to wildlife in southeast Asia and could spawn the transmission of zoonotic diseases to humans. An estimated 12.3 million snares threaten ss='cambodia-color'>...
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Announcement on the "ACCESS project: Advancing CSOs’ Capacities, Enhancing Solutions for Sustainability"
On 25 December 2017, The European Union will be funding $3.3 million on the conservation efforts in Mondulkiri’s srepok and Phnom Prich wildlife sanctuaries. The ACCEss project: Advancing CsOs’ Capacities, Enhancing solutions for sustainability will be implemented from 2018 to 2022 by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), Aide ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aide au Développement Gembloux (ADG)
Ministry of Interior allowing Equitable Cambodia to resume work
On 12 March 2018, the Ministry of Interior has released a letter No. 372 addressed to Equitable Cambodia’s executive director, Mr. Eang Vuthy, on allowing the Equitable Cambodia to resume its work after it has fulfilled obligations set by the ministry in the letter No. 1744, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Interior
Joint statement abuse of the court to suit political agenda must cease and charges against CNRP members dropped
We, the undersigned organizations, condemn the flagrant abuse of the Cambodian legal system and the trumped up charges that have been used to manipulate the outcome of political negotiations between the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) and the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), following the latest ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joint Civil Society Organizations
His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister PRAK Sokhonn, His Excellency Ekkaphab PHANTHAVONG, and His Excellency CHEN Hai attended the Handover Ceremony of Chinese Government’s Contribution of COVID-19 Vaccines to ASEAN for Myanmar on 30 June 2022 in Yangon
On 30 June 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister PRAK sokhonn, His Excellency Ekkaphab PHANTHAVONG, and His Excellency CHEN Hai attended the Handover Ceremony of Chinese Government’s Contribution of COVID-19 Vaccines to ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
Statement of permanent mission of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the UN office and Geneva in general debate on agenda item 10 on the technical cooperation “right to reply to the delegation of Finland”
On 23 March 2021, the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the UN office and Geneva issued a statement in the general debate on agenda item 10 on the technical cooperation “right to reply to the delegation of Finland”. Cambodia ambassador and the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the UN office
Joint legal analysis of the draft law on unions of enterprises
Today, CLEC and LICADHO release a legal analysis of the latest draft of the Law on Unions of Enterprises (Trade Union Law) obtained at the end of May, this year. As unions yesterday began a nationwide campaign for a $177 per month minimum wage, the ss='cambodia-color'>...
Joint Organizations
LICADHO's Joint Statement: Authorities’ obstruction of grassroots activism hurts Prey Lang conservation
On 25 February 2020, more than 100 groups and communities released a joint statement saying that they were outraged and appalled at the restrictions placed on hundreds of community members, monks and environmental activists who were prevented by authorities from entering parts of Prey Lang ss='cambodia-color'>...
Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)
Prek Toal was recognized as a new Ramsar Site
South-EaSt ASia&rSquo;S largeSt waterbird colony, the 21,342 hectareS Prek Toal (RamSar Site no. 2245 http://rSiS.ramSar.org/riS/2245) haS been deSignated aS a Wetland of International Importance (alSo known aS a &lSquo;RamSar Site&rSquo;), by the Royal Government of Cambodia and recognized by the Secretariat of the RamSar Convention SS='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Environment
Press release on the removal of the one per cent 'Minimum Tax'
On 29 May 2019, the Ministry of Economy and Finance issued a press release on the cancellation of the one percent Minimum Tax which was announced by the Prime Minister Hun sen in Cambodia’s investment environment seminar held in Japan. This Minimum Tax will be ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Economy and Finance
The signing of the development objective agreement grants between the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Government of the United States of America
On 25 April 2022, the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued a press release on the signing of the development objective agreement grants between the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Government of the United states of America. The Royal Government of Cambodia, through ss='cambodia-color'>...
Council for the Development of Cambodia
Apsara authority announces the move of elephants from Angkor temple complex
Apsara authority has announced on 13 November 2019 over the move of elephants from Cambodia’s Angkor temple complex and it will end elephant rides business. Elephant management association will take charge of moving the elephants to a new home –a community forest (BosThom), located in ss='cambodia-color'>...
Apsara Authority
Press release: Stung Sen was internationally recognized as a fifth Ramsar Site in Cambodia
On 06 November 2018, Ministry of Environment issued a press release announcing to the public that stung sen, which is the tallest and pristine seasonally flooded freshwater swamp forest of the Tonle sap Great Lake, has been designated as a Wetland of International Importance (also known ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Environment
The inauguration of the Legal Documentation Centre relating to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
On 27 June 2017, the Embassy of Japan and the Council of Ministers are going to hold the inauguration of the Legal Documentation Centre (LDC) relating to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Japan has contributed about 2.354 million Us dollars through the Japanese ss='cambodia-color'>...
Embassy of Japan in Cambodia
Emergency Use Authorization of COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca
On 12 February 2021, the Ministry of Health ha posted an Emergency Authorization use of COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca. According to the letter, the ministry of health has grant AstraZeneca;s COVID-19 vaccine for Emergency Use Authorization (AEU) in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Health
Announcement on the retail price of fuel at gasoline stations to be implemented from 16 to 30 April 2021
On 19 April 2021, the Ministry of Commerce released an announcement on the retail price of fuel at gasoline stations to be implemented from 16 to 30 April 2021 based on the average price of fuel on the international market which aims to facilitate people’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ministry of Commerce