Five civil society organisations (CSOs) in Cambodia working on the Luang Prabang hydropower project in Laos said in a press statement on Tuesday that it should be delayed because Lao authorities have insufficient details concerning the transboundary impact assessment and don’t have concrete measures to mitigate its impact on lower Mekong countries.
The Building and Wood Workers’ Trade Union Federation of Cambodia (BWTUC) and the Centre for Alliance of Labour and Human Rights (Central) on Tuesday urged the government to suspend the operations of a company conducting drilling operations at a mountain in Kampot after two employees were killed by falling rocks on Friday.
Environmental activists were cycling from Koh Kong to Phnom Penh in a campaign to have Koh Kong Krao island designated as a protected area while authorities in Koh Kong province briefly stopped. Koh Kong provincial police confiscated more than 10 bicycles from a group of Mother Nature Organisation youths who were riding from Koh Kong province to Phnom Penh to submit a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen proposing that Koh Kong Krao Island be certified a protected area.
Banteay Meanchey police officials detained and later released human and environmental rights activist Hun Vannak, as security forces were deployed for a planned protest by market vendors in Poipet town
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Accountants, auditors, enterprises and NGOs that delay the submission of their tax return forms or commit accounting fraud are liable to a fine of more than 30 million riel ($7,300), according to a new government sub-decree on Transactional Penalties for Violations in Accounting and Auditing Laws.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch and CSOs call on the Cambodian government to go further than its stated plan to tackle prison overcrowding and related human rights abuses prevalent in the country’s justice system. About 10,000 of Cambodia’s prisoners will be freed as part of the country’s anti-prison overcrowding campaign.
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Cambodian unionist Soy Sros was released on 28 May, after being detained without trial for nearly two months. She was jailed for a post on social media criticizing her employer, Superl Cambodia Ltd, for suspending union members, including a pregnant woman.
About 1,000 Cambodian traders have picketed at the Thai-Cambodian checkpoint in Ban Khlong Luek to protest against the prolonged border closure.
The Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (COMFREL) annually observes on voter registration and audits Voter List. COMFREL requests the NEC initiatively discuss with the parliaments about a possibility of election laws amendment or establish a new mechanism to register migrant eligible voters outside the country.
The Monk Council in Siem Reap province expelled prominent activist monk and human rights defender Venerable Luon Savath on Wednesday, based on leaked audio recordings purportedly between the monk and a group of women.https://bit.ly/2UbTf16;
