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Police Warn NGOs Over Workshops

6 September 2011
The Cambodia Daily
Civil society / Education and training / Education policy and administration / Human rights / Land / Legal education for the public / Social development
Cambodia / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / CCHR / Chhim Savuth / Chhoy Mab / Chut Wutty / Civil Society Actors / CRCK / CRCK concession / incitement / Legal education / logging / lowland evergreen forest / Ministry of Interior / Natural Resource Protection Group / NGOs / Phan Sopheng / Police / Prey Long Forest / rubber company / Workshops

Kompong Thom provincial authorities have threatened to shut down two NGOs who have been providing free legal education to poor villagers in the province, accusing the groups of fomenting rural unrest against private investors. The NGOs, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights and the Natural ...

USAID Report Offers New Way to Protect Prey Long Forest

5 September 2011
The Cambodia Daily
Agriculture and fishing / Civil society / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Logging and timber / Protected forest / Social development
Agro-business company / carbon credits / Climate Change / conservation / Conservation International / David Emmett / evergreen forest / Forestry Administration / Prey Long Forest / Prey Long Network / Seng Sokheng / soil erosion / Southeast Asia / timber exploitation / UN / US / US Agency for International Development

The government should abandon its current management of Prey Long forest and shift to a plan that conserves the forst while also optimizing its economic uses, such as agriculture, carbon credits and controlled timber exploitation, according to a recent report by the US Agency for ...

Prey Long Forest Protesters Rounded Up, 'Reeducated'

19 August 2011
The Cambodia Daily
Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Social development
Avatar / Cambodia / Cambodia Center for Human Rights / cash crop plantations / Chamkar Mon District / Chor Kimsor / Community Legal Education Center / deforestation / environmental protesters / exploitation / human rights groups / illegal logging / indigenous minorities / Kompong Thom Province / Kratie Province / Kuy / LICADHO / Licenses / mining companies / Phnom Penh / Preah Vihear Province / Prey Long Community Network / Prey Long Forest / private businesses / reeducate / rights groups / Royal Palace / Southeast Asia / Stung Treng Province / villagers / Yeng Virak

Authorities in Phnom Penh briefly detained about 100 villagers yesterday who were distributing leaflets to raise awareness of the ongoing destruction of Prey Long, one of Cambodia’s largest remaining primary forests. The leaflet distributors had their materials confiscated and were escorted to six commune offices ...

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