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A woman uses her smartphone to look at social media in Phnom Penh, November 25, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Licadho report: Online harassment violates human rights, requires official and private-sector responses

28 Nov 2021 2:06 PM|

When underage Sophal was targeted online with “revenge porn” by an older man she’d previously had sex with, she tried her best to ignore the real-world stares and comments from people who knew her.

A general view of downtown Sihanoukville, picture taken October 28, 2021. CamboJA/ Sorn Sarath

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Relatives of suspected human trafficking victims urge police intervention

5 Nov 2021 1:06 PM|

Met Malen patrols the forest and protects natural resources from loggers in Phnom Chreap Treyksan community, April 2020. Supplied

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Behind one young woman’s fight against illegal logging

5 Nov 2021 9:46 AM|

Licadho report: Online harassment violates human rights, requires official and private-sector responses

28 Nov 2021 2:06 PM|

Workers arrive at the banana plantation owned by Vietnamese company Thagrico in Cambodia's northeastern Ratanakiri province in October 2021 (Photo by Sun Narin)

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Workers, including underage children, brave dangerous chemicals to make a living at Cambodia’s banana plantations

26 Nov 2021 10:25 AM|

“I have had stomach and intestinal problems for many years since I worked on the banana plantation, but I never thought this was due to the chemicals,” said 37-year-old Soy Srey Phoeun, just minutes after she returned from her latest trip to the hospital, with an IV drip still attached to her arm.

OPINION

“Maintaining a healthy river ecosystem and balancing the interests of both human and nature” is the advice that expert Carl Middleton, director of the Center for Social Development Studies at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, gave for the multiparty cooperation initiative Mekong-Lancang (LMC)

Students leaving class at Chea Sim Boeung Keng Kang high school in Phnom Penh, Picture taken October 22, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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With grade 12 exam date set, students furiously studying

25 Nov 2021 8:39 AM|

A portrait of the late Sin Khon, an activist associated with the former CNRP, is seen near his mother in Ta Keo province, November 23, 2021. Photo taken by Em Bunnarith

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Sin Khon’s friends and family claim murder was politically motivated

24 Nov 2021 5:19 PM|

A man drives a motorcycle with a woman past the former Cambodia National Rescue Party headquarters in Phnom Penh. Picture taken May 24, 2021. CamboJA/ Pring Samrang

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Civil society groups decry deportation of CNRP asylum seekers

22 Nov 2021 9:22 PM|

Billboards advertising alcohol seen along main roads as commuters cross the Chamkarmon intersection in Phnom Penh, October 29, 2021. (Kann Vicheika/VOA Khmer)

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Advertising Buoys Alcohol Consumption, Concerning Some in Cambodia

17 Nov 2021 4:58 PM|

Kandal provincial authorities began to measure people's houses as a part of a survey to provide them with compensation in connection with a long-running land dispute caused by the new airport development, photo taken on November 4. Photo Supplied

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Authorities prepare to compensate airport-affected families for their homes while farmland disputes remain unresolved

11 Nov 2021 8:01 PM|

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Court hands prison sentences to eight journalists in timber extortion case

21 Oct 2021 9:19 PM|

The Preah Vihear provincial court on Thursday sentenced eight small-time journalists to prison after convicting them of extorting the owners of a timber warehouse in June.