Both at several locations in Cambodia and in front of cambodian embassies abroad, a series of events were organised simultaneously to request the release of 21 workers (2 others were granted bail a few days before), activists and union leaders who were arrested during the early January crackdown by the army which resulted in the […]
About 50 members of the Civil Society Organisation, joined by 23 monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ), monitored by nearly as much press and human rights observers, defied the demonstration ban in Phnom Penh by praying at the Preah Ang Dongker pagoda on the riverside to ask for the release of […]
About 20 monks from the Independent Monk Network for Social Justice (IMNSJ) and a few activists organised a short-noticed ceremony yesterday evening in a side street of Veng Sreng street in the industrial area of Phnom Penh, to the memory of those workers who were killed by army bullets during the January 3rd crackdown (see […]
According to an article from the Phnom Penh Post of January 28th, more than 100 labour union representatives were fired in the wake of the strikes for wages which were violently cracked down upon by the armed forces earlier this month. About 1000 workers from the industrial area of Vattanac II walked out because 11 […]
After the march and gathering of more than 9 people ban proclaimed by the Phnom Penh Municipality, it is hard to assess when the authorities will let their Communal ‘Security’ Officers loose on peaceful gatherings. When 11 people were arrested for a few hours day before yesterday, no one from the 50-something people from the […]
Ten years ago, union leader Chea Vichea was killed by a gunman while reading his newspaper near Wat Lanka. The killer still roams free… In the tense post-election climate which saw violent crackdowns on striking workers on January 2nd and 3rd, a commemoration was held in the streets of Phnom Penh today, with an unauthorised […]
A small group of peacefull activists from various human rights organisations and from IDEA, whose leader Voann Pov was severely beaten by Unit 911 on January 2nd and ended up in prison in Kompong Cham, tried to gather in front of Wat Unalom and then in front of the Royal Palace to demonstrate for the […]
Who else but the Boeung Kak lake community would dare to defy the demonstration ban set by the cambodian government after the many weeks of CNRP protests, the worker’s strike and its violent crackdown by the army? The ladies toured several embassies (the U.S., Japanese, Australian and German ones) to deliver a petition requesting the […]