Boeung Kak women visited by MPs
Thirteen Boeung Kak women locked in Prey Sar prison after a three-hour trial on May 24 are threatening to go on a hunger strike in protest, an opposition Sam Rainsy lawmaker said yesterday. A team of SRP MPs, including Mu Sochua, was granted access to the ...
Women flee from Thai karaoke parlor slavery
Two Cambodian women escaped Thailand on Friday a week after being trafficked across the border and sold into sex slavery in a Thai karaoke parlour, according to the rights group Adhoc and Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection officials. Tan Kimrany, an officer for Adhoc’s Women’s Rights ...
Women's rights group troubled by ADHR draft
A “public morality” clause in the draft ASEAN Declaration on Human Rights threatens the most basic rights of women and sexual minorities and should be scrapped, a coalition of women’s groups said in a statement released yesterday. Civil society groups met with foreign ministers at the ...
Security forces strip, handcuff women in Kratie amid eviction
Villagers detained during a bloody crackdown in Kratie province last week in which a 14-year-old was shot dead have accused security forces of brutal acts of cruelty, including forcing pregnant women to stand naked in the sun for hours. The villagers from Pro Ma village in ...
Second Fainting in a Week at M&V Garment Factory
Twenty-three workers at the M&V garment factory fainted yesterday morning in Kompong Chhang province, the second thime in a week that a mass faining has occured at the factory, a Labor Ministry official said. Meng Hong, a member of a workplace safety committee that the Ministry ...
Boeung Kak Evictees Ask City Hall For Better Compensation
About 100 women forcibly evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak neighbourhood protested outside City Hall yesterday asking for upgrades to the compensation they accepted under duress to give up their homes. The women said they were representing 739 of the more than 3,000 families forced out ...
Housing Activists Clash With Police in Street Protest
At least two women were injured Monday as housing rights activists clashed with police in Phnom Penh. The activists had been demonstrating by sitting in a major street in front of City Hall to demand land titles in two ongoing land disputes in the capital, those ...
Police block Beoung Kak protesters
More than 100 police and security guards, including riot squad members, were deployed to the capital’s Boeung Kak lake community yesterday to block a protest that, at times, involved only three shouting women. About 50 members of the Boeung Kak community tried to march from Village ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061866329/National/police-block-beoung-kak-protesters.html
Former Cambodia governor jailed in absentia for shooting three factory workers
A Cambodian court sentenced a former governor in absentia to 18 months in prison for shooting three female workers at a factory supplying sportswear giant Puma, a judge said yesterday. The women, employees of Puma supplier Kaoway Sports, were wounded when someone opened fire on protesters ...
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1268733/ex-cambodian-official-convicted-absentia
After shift, still few women in NA
The number of women serving as lawmakers in the next mandate has dropped from last term, even after parties made final adjustments that saw more women moved up into key positions. According to official results released by the National Election Committee on Sunday, women will hold ...
Amelia Woodside
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/after-shift-still-few-women-na
Lender singled out after documentary
Some 1,000 employees from one of Cambodia’s largest microfinance institutions gathered in the Koh Pich exhibition hall yesterday to watch A River Changes Course, the award-winning documentary about three Cambodians from different backgrounds all struggling to eke out a living in fast-changing times. Why Angkor Mikroheranhvatho (Kampuchea) ...
Joe Freeman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/lender-singled-out-after-documentary
(English) Number of women in politics back in focus
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Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/number-women-politics-back-focus
NGOs Say Women Could Help End the Political Impasse
More women should be part of any future high-level negotiations between the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP to resolve the current political deadlock, a coalition of women’s rights NGOs said Tuesday in a statement. In a joint statement by more than 20 organizations, the groups criticized ...
Kuch Naren and Dene-Hern Chen
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ngos-say-women-could-help-end-the-political-impasse-46267/
(English) Well-being of women, children up
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Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/well-being-women-children
(English) Committee says gender gap threatens development goals
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Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/committee-says-gender-gap-threatens-development-goals
(English) New Research Presented to Help Locals Understand Violence
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Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-research-presented-to-help-locals-understand-violence-61415/
(English) Cambodia’s Kampong Chhnang region home to traditional pottery
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Global Times News Staff
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/839478.shtml#.UuYNShD-LIV
សមាជិករបស់គណបក្សកាន់អំណាចជាន់ខ្ពស់មួយរូប បានយល់ឃើញថាការរំលោភបំពាន ស្ត្រីនិងកុមារ ជាបញ្ហាសុខភាពសាធារណៈ
ប្រធានគណៈកម្មការច្បាប់និងយុតិ្តធម៌របស់រដ្ឋសភា លោក ប៉ែន បញ្ញា បាននិយាយ កាលពីថ្ងៃ អាទិត្យថា ការរំលោភបំពានលើ ស្ត្រីនិង កុមារគួរតែត្រូវ បានចាត់ទុកជា ការព្រួយបារម្ភនៃបញ្ហាសុខភាពសាធារណៈ ។ ...
បុគ្គលិកសារព័ត៌មាន The Cambodia Herald
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/senior-ruling-party-member-sees-abuse-of-women-and-children-as-public-health-issue-7554
(English) At 75, even jail can't keep Mommy from Cambodia's land-rights fight
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South China Morning Post News Staff
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1647182/75-even-jail-cant-keep-mommy-cambodias-land-rights-fight
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លោកស្រីឧបនាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រី ម៉ែន សំអន កាលពីថ្ងៃម្សិលមិញ ក្រើនរំឭកដល់ស្ថាប័នពាក់ព័ន្ធបង្កើនការយកចិត្តទុកដាក់និងផ្សព្វផ្សាយអប់រំបន្ថែមដល់ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋ អំពីសមាសភាពយេនឌ័រ ដើម្បីលុបបំបាត់អំពើហិង្សានិងអំពើរំលោភសេពសន្ថវៈលើស្រ្តីនិងកុមារ ដែល ...
ប៉ិច សុធារី
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