Garment factory workers staged a fashion event called ‘Beautifull Clothes, Ugly Reality’ at the Worker’s Information Center in Phnom Penh, denouncing the poor working conditions and the current oppression they currently face in Cambodia. The participants held a fashion show, attended by some 200 people, wearing clothes from brands like Adidas, H&M and others which […]
Same people, same fences, slightly different itinerary of the march and a little more heat on day 5 of the trial for 23 workers, activists and union leaders who were arrested on January 2nd and 3rd during a violent military crackdown (see HERE) on striking workers demanding a 160$/month salary. The trial can be followed, […]
The same crowd of human rights activists and monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ) held a protest in front of the barriers sealing off the street where the Phnom Penh Municipal Court is located during the 4th trial day of 23 workers and union representatives who were arrested during the heavy […]
The road in front of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court was cordoned off again during the resumption of the trial for 23 workers, union leaders and activists who were arrested on January 2nd and 3rd during a violent crackdown of striking workers. A brief and fairly useless scuffle between Municipal Security Guards and monks from […]
If you have doubts about the possibility of having Labour Day parades nowadays in Cambodia, here are a few photographs from past ones in Phnom Penh. There is nothing wrong with them. They celebrate those who work to make some people rich… They celebrate those who make your designer’s t-shirt for a monthly salary which […]
The 21 factory workers, activists and union leaders who were arrested in Phnom Penh on January 2nd and 3rd during the violent crackdown on worker’s demonstrations for higher wages which resulted in 4 deaths by bullets (a 5th worker was seen wounded but disappeared and is presumed dead) is going on at the Phnom Penh […]
Various worker’s unions tipped off the press that they would distribute leaflets at both Canadia Industrial Park and Bright Sky factory, calling for a worker’s walkout after Khmer New Year, one way to alleviate if not to prevent harassment by the authorities. And so it happened. The operation went on unhindered despite the army patrols […]
The 4th attempt, under close scrutiny of journalists, human rights workers and citizen journalists, by Mu Sochua, CNRP lawmaker, to reach the center of ‘Freedom Park’ this morning was again prevented by security guards from the municipality. Moments later, some 100 people were protesting on the sidewalk opposite the municipal court where a bail hearing […]