More than 200 families are refusing to leave their homes along the Tonle Sap river in Russei Keo district, saying they would be willing to relocate only if authorities provide fair compensation.
A Phnom Penh Candlelight official was assaulted on Sunday and sustained a serious head injury, with CCTV footage showing potentially six assailants.
Nann Mara is at university studying law: only the third person from the indigenous communities in her district in Ratanakiri to seek a higher education. Less than 1% of all indigenous people aged 15 and over have even completed high school.
Six hectares of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tamok has been handed to a four-star general in charge of the Interior Ministry’s finance department, as residents living along the lake’s shore continued to protest their looming resettlement.
Seven women protesting evictions from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tamok lake have been summoned to court for incitement and obstruction based on a complaint by the district security chief.
The ban came into force July 1 but was quickly opposed on Tuesday by hundreds of truck drivers who blocked a Phnom Penh road in protest.
Three groups of protesters crisscrossed Phnom Penh Friday morning over longstanding labor, land and political issues, submitting petitions to various government institutions and the E.U.
The press conference included human rights NGOs, a rare sight that both a gov’t spox and civil society representatives said was a good step.
As journalists and observers were again harassed and threatened at NagaWorld protests this week, the Information Ministry said lower-level authorities did not appear to fully understand their roles and acted outside of their remit.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday called for a retrial for three indigenous Bunong women who were convicted of removing fence posts on purportedly private property while trying to protect ancestral lands.
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