Ethnic villagers reject Mega First cash offer
source: phnompenhpost.com | November 30, 2015 (Phnong ethnic villagers block a road in O’Raing district earlier this month during a protest against Mega First Corporation) An ethnic community in...
View ArticleMassage workers strike in Siem Reap
source: phnompenhpost.com | November 30, 2015 (Alaska Massage Center workers hold placards during a protest in front of the company’s office yesterday morning in Siem Reap, where they demanded an...
View ArticleAnti-violence campaign closes
Source: phnompenhpost.com | December 7, 2015 (Prime Minister Hun Sen’s son, Hun Many (center) and others participate in a mass dance at Phnom Penh’s Wat Botum Park at the close of a 16-day campaign to...
View ArticleVillagers face court over ELC protest
source: phnompenhpost.com | December 7, 2015 (The office of a rubber plantation company in Preah Vihear after being destroyed by protesters in June. Nine villagers have been summoned to court over...
View ArticleHuman Rights Day protest stays peaceful
source: phnompenhpost.com | December 11, 2015 (Police stand watch outside barricades preventing Human Rights Day protesters from getting closer to the Ministry of Justice. An official later emerged to...
View ArticleComplaint over Kulen clearing
source: phnompenhpost.com | December 11, 2015 Some 150 families in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district appealed to rights group Adhoc yesterday over the clearing of community-owned resin trees and farmland...
View ArticleNGOs condemn dam power at COP21
source: phnompenhpost.com | December 11, 2015 (Workers construct the framework of foundations at the Lower Sesan II dam construction site in Stung Treng’s Sesan district last year.) Major hydropower...
View ArticleOrganiser arrested over march
source: phnompenhpost.com | December 15, 2015 (Protesters stand around an effigy in Poipet yesterday after marching though the Bantaey Meanchey border town to voice their concerns about forced...
View ArticleOfficials cursed over land dispute
source: phnompenhpost.com | December 15, 2015 (Evicted Borei Keila community members plant a curse outside Prampi Makara District Hall yesterday) Borei Keila community members yesterday splattered a...
View ArticleBanteay Meanchey protesters seek organiser’s release
source: phnompenhpost.com | December 16, 2015 (Activist Chheng Bun Hak participates in a protest in Banteay Meanchey’s Poipet town in October. Bun Hak was arrested Monday for his role in organising...
View ArticleGov’t must help homeless: UN
source: phnompenhpost.com | December 16, 2015 (People sit on the ground in Phnom Penh earlier this year after they were rounded up by the authorities in Daun Penh district before being transported to...
View ArticleIncitement charge for effigy protest organiser
source: phnompenhpost.com | December 17, 2015 (People march down a road in Poipet town earlier this week during a protest against planned railway evictions) An anti-eviction activist in Poipet,...
View ArticleBavet minimum wage protesters arrested
source: phnompenhpost.com | December 21, 2015 (Garment employees gather in front of Kingmaker Footwear factory in Svay Rieng province last week during a well-attended protest calling for a sector-wide...
View ArticleCops, protesters clash in Bavet
source: phnompenhpost.com | December 22, 2015 (Military police form a line in front of protesting garment factory workers yesterday in Bavet.) The border town of Bavet in Svay Rieng province was again...
View ArticleViolent protests boil over in Bavet
source: phnompenhpost.com | December 23, 2015 (Police take cover behind riot shields as garment factory workers throw rocks at them during a protest that turned violent in Bavet yesterday morning)...
View ArticleBavet quiet as SEZ workers turned away
source: phnompenhpost | December 24, 2015 A police officer hails down trucks filled with garment workers early yesterday morning near the Bavet special economic zone in Svay Rieng province The two vast...
View ArticleMondulkiri land sit-down ‘fruitful’
source: phnompenhpost | Decemer 24, 2015 Ethnic minority villagers from Pech Chreada district hold placards during a demonstration in Mondulkiri to raise awareness about ongoing disputes with Socfin...
View ArticleDonors slash funding for MRC
Source: Phnom Penh Post| January 14, 2016 A convoy of Thai government officials and aides inspect a privately owned pond in Thailand, a likely storage spot for diverted water. Bangkok Post As disputes...
View ArticlePreah Vihear land disputants told to desist
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Mon, 18 January 2016, Pech Sotheary A villager from Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district points out examples of evictions on a poster during a protest in 2014 outside of the...
View ArticleStructures by Phnom Penh canal flattened
Source: Phnom Penh Post | Tue, 19 January 2016, Phak Seangly People watch yesterday as an excavator tears down a section of a house built on state land in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district. Pha Lina A...
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