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Cambodia has known twenty years of civil war: first, the coup d’état of Lon Nol against Sihanouk in 1970 (1970 - 1975), then the dictatorship of the Khmer Rouge (1975 - 1979), and then the Vietnamese occupation (1979 - 1989), which put an end to the Khmer Rouge regime, but Cambodia fell back into (...)
• Two China-backed projects in Cambodia show that some can be far more effective than others and it’s not always easy to win people over
• For while a new motorway is proving popular, residents of Sihanoukville are unhappy at the high number of Chinese businesses
What kind of Chinese investment (...)
The year-long struggle is not only about protecting workers from layoffs, but also the rights of workers to have a union and to protest injustice. ALR spoke to two key union leaders leading the fight.
In what has become the longest labour strike in recent Cambodian history, hundreds of (...)
Regardless of the fact that it is the twenty-first century, Cambodian working-class women’s lives and labour rights remain relatively poor and have continued to be exploited, particularly during economic and/or broader crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Looking back at the first two years of (...)
The groups issued the call in response to recent round-ups of striking NagaWorld casino workers.
Cambodian civil society groups, community organizations, and trade unions on Thursday accused governmental officials of sexually harassing female strikers and applying COVID prevention rules (...)
More than 300 trafficked Cambodian women were returned from China in the first nine months of the year, mostly after being scammed into marriages, according to the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
It was more than double the total for all of 2020, said spokesperson Koy Kuong, adding that Cambodia’s (...)
Activists and rights groups say COVID-19 law is now being deployed by the government as another tool to further curtail freedoms.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Vorn Pao was distraught when one of his association’s workers was detained in May this year while collecting the names of families living (...)
Prime Minister intervenes to give workers a paltry $2 minimum wage rise that utterly fails to keep pace with inflation
Cambodia’s minimum wage for its vital garment workforce will increase to US$194 per month from January 2022, a meager $2 raise announced by the government on Tuesday after (...)
Despite a per-capita GDP of one-tenth of the EU’s, Cambodia has achieved a similar rate of vaccination — and a death rate 20 times lower.
From Europe to the Asia-Pacific, what looked like light at the end of the tunnel earlier this year has given way to rising infections and an uptick in (...)
Garment workers make up a large share of Cambodia’s COVID-19 cases, with some 1,673 workers from 206 factories having tested positive since the latest outbreak began in February, according to the Ministry of Labor. Additionally, more than 17,000 workers are in quarantine and being monitored (...)
(Bangkok) – The World Bank Group should investigate alleged coerced land sales and other rights abuses linked to predatory lending and over-indebtedness in the micro-loan sector, Human Rights Watch said today. These longstanding problems have worsened during the economic crisis resulting from (...)
The Cambodian authorities must redouble their efforts to thoroughly, independently and impartially investigate the disappearance of Thai dissident Wanchalearm Satsaksit and determine his fate and whereabouts, said Amnesty International today.
The 37-year old activist was abducted by unknown (...)
Soy Sros spent nearly two months in prison after criticizing her employer’s response to the pandemic. She has been released, but her imprisonment has had lasting effects on her health and her workplace.
Soy Sros. Photograph: Worker Rights Consortium
On March 31, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic (...)
This situationer provides a general overview of COVID-19 in Cambodia, as it impacts on four broad dimensions: health, political, economic, and socio-cultural. The data and information were compiled from various sources including official government pronouncements, news reports, coronavirus (...)
As in other countries, COVID-19 has not only shaken Cambodia’s health system, it has also exposed the underlying flaws in the country’s current economic model, which are resulting in livelihood crises for many people. The economic impacts of the pandemic are severe on the working-classes and (...)
Amid the devastation of war, Pol Pot’s genocidal regime came to power and led to the death of over a million Cambodians. Its roots didn’t lie in its “utopianism,” but in imperialist war and authoritarianism.
The Communist Party of Cambodia (CPK), better known as the Khmer Rouge, was the last (...)
Human rights groups ratchet up pressure on the Cambodian government after Sum Moeun vanished without a trace.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Two months ago, Sum Moeun was last seen being beaten up by Cambodian soldiers following his arrest over an ongoing land dispute with an agro-industrial company. (...)
When dusk falls over the city, the diggers roars to life. The small team of workers laying the base of the 46-storey Morgan Tower in Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich (or Diamond Island, one of Cambodia’s largest real estate projects) had been waiting all day for the mud to dry after unseasonable rain. On (...)
Proponent of sanctions charged with incitement days after PM Hun Sen warned critics to flee if EU revoked trade deal.
Phnom Penh, Cambodia - An outspoken opposition member and proponent of sanctions against Cambodia was arrested and charged with “incitement”, just days after Prime Minister Hun (...)
Bloc says big increase in imports of Indica rice from two countries caused financial damage to European producers.
The European Commission has reinstated duties on rice from Cambodia and Myanmar for three years after determining that imports were causing economic damage to European producers. (...)
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