Civil Society (30th June – 04th July 2025)
| One year after five Mother Nature Cambodia activists were imprisoned, civil society groups and families are calling for their immediate release. To mark the anniversary of their detention, rights groups launched a five-day campaign demanding justice, highlighting how their continued detention harms environmental protection efforts and the activists’ families. https://bit.ly/4l9zfGF; About 10 village representatives from Stung Treng’s O’Svay commune gathered outside the provincial hall, calling for government action after a timber company previously documented for illegal logging in the province allegedly cleared their farmland. https://bit.ly/4knzrBa; Nearly half of 203 garment, footwear and travel goods (GFT) factories surveyed in Cambodia are uncertain whether they can sustain operations beyond the next three months due to unclear US tariff policies and waning buyer confidence. |
