Fifty-one families, equivalent to 87% of the total number of households in Phat Sanday commune, Kampong Svay district, Kampong Thom province, have applied to establish a new community in the Stung Sen Ramsar site for the protection and conservation of natural resources by local villagers and to prevent illegal land encroachment.
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Employers, government and union representatives will vote to set the 2022 minimum wage for garment workers on September 28, after failing to reach an agreement in three negotiation meetings.
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Some of the roughly quarter million Cambodian migrant laborers who flooded home from Thailand over the past 18 months when the coronavirus pandemic killed their jobs are desperate enough for work that they are risking arrest and COVID-19 infection to sneak back across the Thai border to do menial labor, workers and NGOs say.
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Some 276 garment factory workers, mostly women, were injured in traffic accidents in the sector’s notoriously dangerous commutes on the backs of trucks in the first half of this year, according to official statistics.
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As the land dispute between villagers and the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) continues without resolution, 31 civil society groups issued a joint statement on Sept. 21 urging the government and the OCIC to provide reasonable compensation for communities who face eviction in the wake of the new Phnom Penh International Airport currently under construction. The Kandal Provincial Court released on bail nine villagers who were charged last Friday for attacking 13 police officers who sustained minor and major injuries following a land dispute issue at the new Phnom Penh International Airport in Kandal Stung district’s Boeng Khyang commune on September 12. Nine airport protesters jailed last week have been released on bail by the Kandal Provincial Court, with a family member saying they were being pressured to accept the compensation on offer and stop protesting.
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More than 100 hectares of Bunong community land and protected Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary forest are being cleared, a community patrol reported this week.
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Several civil society groups said on Wednesday that grassroots communities lack access to information on significant development projects affecting their communities including economic land concessions, often with a serious impact on people’s livelihoods.
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As the country prepares to mark Constitutional Day on September 24, civil society groups say the government has undermined the democratic principles enshrined in the constitution, a claim government officials denied.
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Environmentalist Chhorn Phalla has been arrested by Ratanakiri police after they called him in to update the address on his identification card, his lawyer said. The 42-year-old environmental activist left Samutkroam village in Seda commune with his family in July last year after allegedly being beaten up at a public forum after accusing local authorities of colluding to clear and sell community forest land in 2017.
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