Residents affected by a railway development project in villages 16 and 17 in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district have rejected an offer of compensation to vacate homes and move either to land owned by local developer 7NG in Kandal province or in Kork Kasach area in the capital’s Kamboul district.
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An anti-logging activist was convicted of assault against an alleged timber trader, as rights groups linked the verdict to ongoing harassment and intimidation against environmentalists in the country.
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More than 800 villagers in three districts in Koh Kong province embroiled in land dispute with a sugar company have sought an intervention from district authorities.
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The Cambodia Center for Human Rights (CCHR) in their recently published fact sheet saying evictions of Vietnamese living on the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh violated their rights even though the government gave them prior notice.
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The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) considers that the calls of some NGOs to release prisoners is without legal basis, and will affect security and public order. This comes after several NGOs, including the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (Licadho), called for the relevant ministries and institutions to address the issue of overcrowding in prisons by speeding up the process of releasing detainees, to avoid a Covid-19 epidemic in prisons.
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Cambodia was ranked 138th out of 139 countries. It said during the Covid-19 pandemic, the enforcement of the rule of law in countries around the world had deteriorated. A senior Ministry of Justice official dismissed the report of World Justice Project (WJP) that ranked Cambodia second from the bottom in its Rule of Law Index 2021 launched on October 14.
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