Regional, Local Activists Plan Forums to Coincide With Summits
Activist groups are planning to hold two separate forums this week in Phnom Penh to call attention to human rights issues and other problems in Asean countries as a meeting of regional and world leaders begin in the city. … The assembly will meet ahead of the Asean and East Asia summits and include the topic “food security and sovereignty, trade and investment, labor, natural resources, and human rights and democracy,” said Ly Piseth, an activist at Social Action for Change (SAC), another of the groups involved. …
