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CCHR in the News |
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| Smash & burn |
| Southeast Asia Globe, 2013-02-28 |
| “Fair and just compensation depends on the market value and [the government] does not clarify this specifically in any laws – how can a company know what is the proper compensation?” said Vann Sophat, land reform project coordinator for the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR), who works closely with villagers who will be or have been displaced by major infrastructure projects. |
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| Need for more transparency |
| PPP, 2013-02-28 |
| Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said yesterday, GREATER transparency along the garment supply chain, from producers to buyers, is required in order to strengthen the accountability of retailers, factories and governments in protecting the rights of workers. |
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| Fighting back: Intimidation tactics unite activists |
| PPP, 2013-02-27 |
| “Sometimes authorities incite the activists’ families to make conflict and split them apart. We are always victimised,” Svay Phoeun, a Kouy ethnic minority activist from Preah Vihear province, said at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights workshop. |
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| Rights Groups Decry Bar Association Gag Order |
| The Cambodia Daily, 2013-02-25 |
| “Neither the BAKC nor the Ministry of Information have any place determining who can and cannot appear in the Cambodian media—a free and independent media being a cornerstone of any democratic society,” local rights groups Adhoc, Licadho and the Cambodian Center for Human Rights said in a joint statement. |
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| PM’s logging decree ‘too late’ |
| PPP, 2013-02-25 |
| “This circular should have been issued six or seven years ago,” when there was rosewood left to save, said Chhim Savuth, program coordinator at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. |
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| Cambodia: Election List May Widen Divide In Hun Sen’s Party |
| eurasiareview, 2013-02-24 |
| Ou Virak, the president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said that nominating only the rich and powerful children within the CPP to become lawmakers would discourage other CPP members’ children sidelined from the polls. |
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