Social development

The five-year Improved Basic Education in Cambodia (IBEC) project supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) held a close-out workshop on August 25-26.  ...

Transparency International Cambodia (TI Cambodia) is holding a seminar on “Corporate Integrity for Cambodian Entrepreneurs” tomorrow, 26 August 2014. The seminar is targeted to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and seeks to increase awareness of anti-bribery policies and help those organizations develop anti-corruption strategies that ...

On August 18, 2014, the Phnom Penh Sugar Co. Ltd., took out advertisements in several major Cambodian newspapers accusing Equitable Cambodia’s Executive Director, Mr. Eang Vuthy, of making false and misleading statements about Oknha Ly Yong Phat, and causing “irreparable damage” to the Senator’s reputation ...

LICADHO calls for immediate family access to all three CNRP youth leaders currently detained in Prey Sar’s CC1 prison. ...

I write to you regarding the speech you delivered on 18 August 2014 at the opening of the workshop on the national strategy for food security and nutrition 2014-2018. I welcome your commitment to find solutions to land disputes in the country. ...

CCHR write to His Excellency Sar Kheng, Deputy Prime Minister, Ministry of Interior regarding the implementation of the Law on Peaceful Demonstration (2009). ...

Cambodian Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) would like to inform the public and all the journalists that CSOs will hold a round table discussion on “Term Limits for Prime Minister”. ...

LICADHO condemns the violent dispersal of more than 50 villagers from La Peang community who had begun their 60km-long peaceful march from Kampong Chhnang province to Phnom Penh, calling for a resolution to their long-standing land dispute. ...

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 ...

Cambodian Civil Society Organizations (CSO’s) and independent experts believe that the July 22 political leader’s agreement between the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) provides a framework for basic principles to ensure the effectiveness and transparency of the parliamentary process in accordance ...

His Excellency Keo Ramy, Secretary of the Council of Ministers and Deputy Director of Press and Quick Reaction Unit, will hold a press conference on the violence caused by the elected MPs and the Cambodia National Rescue Party activists at the freedom parks on 15 ...

Civil society organizations of Cambodia request the Royal Government to meet its pledge to be more responsive to the voices of its citizens and undertake critical reforms on current legislative agenda. ...

Phnom Penh, 09 July 2014 – Transparency International Cambodia (TI Cambodia) confirms the withdrawal of its involment concerning the 2014 BaccII exam monitoring in August du to the required criteria does not allow TI cambodia to implement its systematic and scientific method called Sample Based ...

The International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) programme today releases its 2nd online transparency report showing how individual garment factories measure up on key working conditions. ...

An overland hot air balloon journeying through more than 100 countries is now in Cambodia, and was this morning at Wat Botum Park, lighting up the city skyline, to increase awareness of children’s right to education and to raise funds for UNICEF’s work around the ...

Compliance with the Cambodian labour law showed both advances and declines in key areas including wages, fire safety, child labor, and worker health and safety according to the latest Synthesis Report released by the International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia program (BFC). ...

Transparency International Cambodia (TI Cambodia) collaborates with Development Innovations, a 3-year USAID-funded project, to launch a Cambodian version of Bribespot, a mobile app which allows all smartphone users to report immediately and effectively when they encounter bribery. The launch will take place at Development Innovations on ...

Today, 26 June 2014, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) and CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, condemn the Royal Government of Cambodia’s (the “RGC”) decision to reject key recommendations on the human rights situation in the Kingdom of Cambodia put forward by United ...

Professor Surya P. Subedi is about to complete 11th­ human rights fact-finding mission to the Kingdom of Cambodia, the second since the National Assembly elections took place in July 2013. Professor Surya P. Subedi proposed to confirm the initial findings and thoughts about the human ...

Today, 23 June 2014, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights’ (CCHR) Trial Monitoring Project releases its first report assessing the adherence to fair trial rights at the Court of Appeal (the Report). This is the seventh report published by the Trial Monitoring Project, and the ...

Phnom Penh, 20 June 2014 – The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) is deeply critical of the uncivilized and inhumane manner in which Cambodian migrants have been treated by the Thai military junta as a result of its drive to deport undocumented migrants, ...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) today announced its Integrated Nutrition, Hygiene and Sanitation Program that will improve the livesof mothers and young children by teaching better nutrition and hygiene practices and increasing the use of latrines. The five-year, $16 million project will benefit ...

On 20 and 21 June 2014, The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) will host a workshop for youth on electoral reform aimed at providing opportunities for youth participants to identify key concerns regarding electoral reform and to develop recommendations, in addition to learning about ...

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) launches today – 16 June 2014 – a new project, the Empowering Cloghers Project (the Project) and announces a call for applications for people interested in receiving training through the Project. The Project aims to strengthen the online ...