Since the postponed general strike in the garment sector from last week, yet another factory has walked out (see more HERE and HERE). For specific reasons, not related to the overall demand of $160? Officially yes. But what the workers from Gartha International are demanding is basically the same: they want more money and more […]
In a contest of stubbornness several communities, well… the usual ones actually, gathered in front of the City Hall gates to seek a resolution to the ongoing land issues they are having. It is not the first time. It will not be the last time. This is a follow-up post on the ‘Quest for Land‘ […]
About 30 members from the Borei Keila community who live in shacks since their eviction in January 2012 (see HERE) gathered in front of the Municipal Court. They request information about the complaint they filed last week regarding the violent behaviour from municipal guards when they were occupying a building which was promised to them. […]
‘Development Landscapes’ is a series of photographs, initiated a few years back, which tracks the evolution of the landscape in areas where people were evicted from in Phnom Penh. Much more at THIS LINK.
The +-300-strong crowd of workers at the EZ International Garment factory extended their bid today for a modest salary rise, a meal and transportation allowance and clean toilets by picketing at the front gate and by dancing under umbrellas to the beat of a sound system. Negotiations at 2:00PM… An ebook on the Cambodian garment […]
This second day of a strike in the garment sector, proclaimed by just a couple of unions, to push for the $160 salary and the release of the 21 people who were jailed during the violent crackdown by the army of early January, seems finding it difficult to gain momentum as the workers are being […]
Boeung Kak lake members staged a protest in front of City Hall, requesting that the 39 last families finally receive the land title they were promised in a conflict which started in 2007, when the lake they were living next to was granted as a concession to a developing company which filled the lake and […]
Members of the Borei Keila community marched to the municipal court to file a complaint about the violence with which municipal security guards handled a protest by the community on Valentine’s day (see HERE). Of course there is a judicial system in Cambodia. One might as well make good use of it. But as long […]