Filmmaking NGO Bophana Center has announced it is terminating two trainers after investigating accusations of sexual harassment against them.
Within days of a rape allegation surfacing against a district police chief in Banteay Meanchey, the provincial police has issued a brief statement that it “completely denies” the “public confusion.”
CPP official Kong Kheang was arrested and charged with incitement and defamation this week for making serious allegations against Deputy Prime Minister Chea Sophara.
An Interior Ministry official said it closed a sexual abuse investigation against a Kampong Thom police chief after the accusers did not go to court, defending the ministry for failing to respond to three high-profile sexual assault and harassment cases in the past year.
Cambodian boys who are victims of sexual abuse find it hard to speak out because of social pressures, a workshop about reporting on sexual abuse heard on Friday.
A gender rights advocate has said the demotion of a male provincial police chief accused of pressuring women officers to perform sex acts in return for promotions did not go far enough to protect the women and bring them justice.
The suspended chief of the Kampong Thom provincial police has said unverified sexual abuse allegations against him from several female police officers were part of a conspiracy to get him removed from his position.
The Interior Ministry is investigating sexual abuse complaints from several female police officers against their male boss, the Kampong Thom provincial police chief, who was accused of both physical abuse and verbal threats in an unverified letter leaked to the press last week.
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