UNICEF slams street sweeps

12 September 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Cities / Civil society / Government / Phnom Penh / Provincial and local governments / Social development / Urban administration and development
Mith Samlanh / Pa Socheatvong / Phnom Penh City Hall / Pour un Sourire d’Enfant / Prey Speu vocational training centre / UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights / UNICEF / UNOHCHR / Wan-Hea Lee

Following the detention this week of homeless children as young as 1 year old at Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Speu vocational training centre, UNICEF yesterday called for an end to street sweeps and arbitrary detentions.

Three people rounded up on Sunday said in separate accounts this week that children were among those taken against their will to the facility, where they were locked in a single room with no toilet, little ventilation and no access to health care. …

 Alice Cuddy
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