In nearly a third of rape cases investigated by human rights group Licadho over a three-year period, the suspect was a relative of the victim, further pressuring women to remain silent, the group says in a new report.
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The Cambodia Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) published a report on December 6 claiming that one in five women in Cambodia had suffered violence from partners, family members, colleagues, acquaintances or public officials, and the rate of incidence has risen during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Workers in Cambodia’s informal sector, who have yet to receive any assistance amid restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, called for relief from the government, as authorities grappled with a rising caseload from an outbreak in the country last week.
Civil society organizations on Dec. 10 were forced to take their celebration of Human Rights Day online amid Cambodia’s latest community outbreak of COVID-19, but they maintained that the day—now stripped of its status of official public holiday—remains valuable, particularly in light of the deteriorating rights situation that has defined 2020. Sixty-seven civil society organizations and rights groups renewed a call to the Cambodian government to immediately stop its attacks against political activists, human rights defenders, journalists and dissenting voices, as groups marked a quieter-than-usual International Human Rights Day on Thursday.
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