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Draft Lango amendments on the table

The Interior Ministry is due to hold a meeting with representatives of local and foreign NGOs next week in a bid to review and give feedback over draft amendments to the Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organisations. ...

Ben Sokhean
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50665345/draft-lango-amendments-on-the-table/

NGO reps to meet with Interior Ministry over Lango amendments

The Interior Ministry will meet with NGO officials next week to listen to their requests for the government to amend the Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organisations. In a press statement issued on Monday, the ministry said the meeting will enable representatives of local and international ...

Taing Vida
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50655528/ngo-reps-to-meet-with-interior-ministry-over-lango-amendments/

Government calls on NGOs to avoid activities linked to crime

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn on Tuesday called on all foreign NGOs to avoid at all costs activities which could be associated or linked to money laundering, financing of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. He said ...

Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/government-calls-ngos-avoid-activities-linked-crime

Meeting with ministry sought to talk LANGO amendments

Ministry of Interior officials will meet to discuss the internationally condemned Law on Associations and Non-governmental Organisations (LANGO) with representatives of the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC), officials said yesterday following a letter sent by the group to Interior Minister Sar Kheng last week. ...

Lay Samean and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/meeting-ministry-sought-talk-lango-amendments

Laws forcing civil society donors to adapt

Legal restrictions on funding for civil-society – like Cambodia’s much-maligned NGO Law – are on the rise globally, a report by the Carnegie International Endowment for Peace has warned, putting international donors in the position of having to adapt to a backlash against democracy promotion. ...

Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/laws-forcing-civil-society-donors-adapt

Koh Kong authorities bar democracy training, citing new law

Provincial authorities in Koh Kong province have barred a group of law students from conducting a two-day training course on human rights and democracy, citing a controversial law passed earlier this year. ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/koh-kong-authorities-bar-democracy-training-citing-new-law/3020066.html

Constitutional Council, Rescue Party to meet over draft NGO law

The Constitutional Council will meet with a group of opposition lawmakers on Wednesday over a controversial draft law to regulate NGOs, as it prepares to review the bill and send it to the king to be signed into law. ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/constitutional-council-rescue-party-to-meet-over-draft-ngo-law/2913537.html

Lawmakers urge Constitutional Council to amend NGO law

A group of opposition lawmakers has urged the Constitutional Council to amend a contentious law on regulating NGOs in the country. Prum Nhean Vicheth, a spokesman for the Constitutional Council, confirmed receipt of the petition and said the Council will be considering the draft law ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/lawmakers-urge-constitutional-council-to-amend-ngo-law/2886994.html

Opposition to submit complaint over LANGO

The opposition is expected today to lodge a constitutional challenge to the controversial law on associations and non-governmental organisations (LANGO) in a last-ditch effort to stop the legislation before it’s signed by the King. ...

Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-submit-complaint-over-lango

Senate passes NGO law amid boycott

Cambodia’s Senate today gave its expected approval to the controversial law on associations and non-governmental organisations (LANGO), amid street protests and a boycott from opposition representatives.All 44 Cambodia People’s Party senators present voted unanimously to endorse the draft legislation, which will next week head to ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/senate-passes-ngo-law-amid-boycott

Gov claims NGOs are recruiting protesters

Phnom Penh Municipal Governor Pa Socheatvong yesterday accused civil society organisations of paying land rights demonstrators to protest against a controversial NGO law that recently passed the National Assembly. ...

Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gov-claims-ngos-are-recruiting-protesters

Registration open for LANGO meet

The National Assembly has announced that members of the public hoping to participate in the consultation regarding Cambodia’s contentious draft Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organisations (LANGO) will have until Tuesday to register. ...

May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/registration-open-lango-meet

Lawmaker says NGO law must pass now

Despite government assurances that the controversial NGO draft law was still undergoing review, committees of the National Assembly said yesterday that the only revisions will be minor corrections to spelling and wording. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lawmaker-says-ngo-law-must-pass-now

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