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Finding hope in the scars of torture, four decades on Tue 30 Aug 2022

Every time Chanthat Mam hears the ring of a bell, it takes him back 40 years. 
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Looking Backwards to Move Forward: Preserving the Lessons and Law from the Khmer Rouge Tue 23 Aug 2022

Standing outside the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, Votey Panha shares what little she knows about her grandfather. “My grandmother only told me that our family lost Grandpa during the regime.” The...

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When activists are misunderstood: meet the Cambodian human rights defenders mislabeled as politicians Wed 17 Aug 2022

Sarin Chan is watching his world disappear. But instead of witnessing the slow death of the life-giving forests his Chong indigenous community rely on for so much – tradition, food, income and...

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Cambodia: Opposition mass trials deeply flawed – UN rights experts Wed 29 Jun 2022

UN human rights experts* today called for an urgent review of the legal proceedings brought against opposition politicians in Cambodia after at least 43 defendants were convicted at a third mass trial on...

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Indigenous Women in Cambodia encouraged to overcome unique challenges on International Women’s Day Thu 10 Mar 2022

Phnom Penh, 11 March, 2022 – The struggles of indigenous women in Cambodia, including aspects of early marriage and domestic violence, are unique and need specific legal protection.

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Protect the right to adequate housing for resettled communities says UN Tue 8 Mar 2022

Phnom Penh, 8 March 2022 – The right to adequate housing in Cambodia has not been fully respected, protected and fulfilled in relation to community relocation and resettlement – but new...

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Protection of civil society, media and human rights defenders needed now more than ever says UN after project launch Thu 17 Feb 2022

17 February, 2022 – With escalating worries from Cambodia’s civil society, media, and human rights defenders about the country’s shrinking civic space, today, the United Nations Country...

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Cambodia: Stifling new measures against striking workers are ‘unjustified’ – UN human rights experts Wed 16 Feb 2022

UN human rights experts* today criticised an ongoing COVID-19 quarantine imposed on striking casino workers in Cambodia, saying authorities must not disguise a crackdown on peaceful and lawful labour action...

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Cambodia: Data surveillance legislation is ‘repressive’, must not be implemented – UN experts Tue 1 Feb 2022

GENEVA (1 February 2022) – UN human rights experts* today urged Cambodian authorities to halt the planned implementation of data surveillance legislation, saying it is repressive and further undermines...

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Human rights work is not a crime, human rights defenders hear Mon 10 Jan 2022

January 10, 2022 - After 15 months in a 17 square metre prison cell shared with 20 other detainees, prominent union trade leader Rong Chhun was released...

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