The EU Parliament has passed a resolution urging Cambodia to end its crackdown on civil society, release political prisoners, and halt harassment of activists.
On Thursday, the United Nations in Cambodia launched a project aimed at bolstering the country’s shrinking civic spaces, “Building back better through participation – enhancing and protecting civic space and people’s participation”, amid concerns expressed by local civil society and media groups.
Implementation of Cambodia’s controversial National Internet Gateway (NIG) has been postponed, according to a Tuesday announcement from the project’s overseeing ministry. The sub-decree that laid…
Despite a land dispute that has yet to be settled, a dozen excavators are being deployed to dig up the rice fields and wetlands belonging to villagers of Kampong Talong, in Kandal Stung district’s Boeung Khyang commune, for the new Phnom Penh International Airport in Kandal province.
As three NagaWold workers undergo a days-long interrogation at Phnom Penh Municipal Court over alleged violations of COVD-19 public health measures, a union association has called out the government for using legal intimidation to stop a peaceful strike.
Activists in Kampong Chhnang province called on the court to drop intentional damage charges against them after the court released two out of three of them on bail Monday.
A land activist who had previously been arrested during a long-running land dispute in Kampong Chhnang province has been charged with making a death threat after live-streaming from the site of a separate local conflict.
Civil society organizations have expressed concerns over the rights of Cambodians to freedom of expression online, after the government enacted new laws to regulate the internet.
Relatives, unions and civil society groups gathered Saturday on the 18th anniversary of the murder of unionist Chea Vichea to call on the Cambodian government to find the perpetrators and end a culture of impunity.
