NGOs Decline Second Meeting With Government Spokesman
Two NGOs have declined a second meeting with a government spokesman after already discussing their joint report on the country’s microfinance sector with him last week.
Two NGOs have declined a second meeting with a government spokesman after already discussing their joint report on the country’s microfinance sector with him last week.
UPDATED 10 a.m. — A government spokesman has called for a closed-door meeting with the authors of a critical report on the nation’s microfinance sector, which found that loan debt had resulted in “serious and systematic human rights abuses” against borrowers.
NEWS ANALYSIS — Critics of a critical report that spotlights “predatory” lending and rights abuses in Cambodia’s microfinance sector have called out the report’s authors — and journalists covering it.
Microfinance debt in Cambodia has resulted in “serious and systematic human rights abuses” and poses a “significant threat” to indebted families’ land holdings, according to a new report.
Alarm bells are ringing for some researchers of Cambodian microfinance who say the heady growth of the sector could be leading the country toward an
Microfinance debt “has led to serious and systematic human rights abuses in the country,” rights groups Licadho and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) said in a
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