New Media and the Promotion of Human Rights in Cambodia
Publication Year: 2012 / Sources: the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)This report seeks to explore the extent to which new media, namely mobile phones and the internet, are used in
Cambodia, and in particular how they are used to promote and protect human rights.
Child Protection Policy Brief 2015
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: World VisionThe Royal Government of Cambodia has made significant progress in establishing legal and policy frameworks that create protective environments for children, including national and sub-national mechanisms. However, gaps in law enforcement, inconsistent policy implementation, and limited accountability of local mechanisms remain and put children at risk.
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A System Just for Children: Voices of child victims and witnesses about their experiences in the Cambodian Criminal Justice System
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: UnicefThis research is one of the first conducted in Cambodia to look in detail at the experience of child witnesses and victims who go through the Cambodian criminal justice system. It particularly aims to give voice to children’s views in order to contribute to the development of criminal court procedures that more fully reflect the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), especially Article 12.
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Cambodia: The Bitter Taste of Sugar Displacement and Dispossession in Oddar Meanchey Province
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: Oxfam & ActionAidLand has been the single most contentious issue in Cambodia with Economic Land Concessions or ELCs the biggest conduit for land grabs in the last two decades. This research study focused exclusively on the sugar concessions in Oddar Meanchey Province.
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World Happiness Report 2015
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: A Group of Independent ExpertsThe world has come a long way since the first World Happiness Report in 2012. Happiness is increasingly considered a proper measure of social progress and a goal of public policy. So it is worth beginning with some history, before summarizing the present report.
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Breaking the Silence: Sexual Violence in Cambodia
Publication Year: 2010 / Sources: Amnesty InternationalCambodia’s newspapers are increasingly filled with reports of rape. Attacks on very young girls and gang rapes are common. The lack of appropriate services for victims of rape is acute, and reflects limited social sanction against rape and other sexual violence.
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Human Rights Report 2014: Cambodia
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: Human Rights WatchThis is the summary of human rights situation in Cambodia included the excessive use of lethal and other force, impunity and politically motivated prosecutions, land confiscation and forced eviction, arbitrary detention, torture, and other ill-treatment, and new law strengthening government control of the judiciary…etc.
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Human Rights 2014: The Year in Review
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)January 2014 started bloody and violent as thousands of mixed security forces mobilized to ruthlessly suppress a global strike by garment workers for a rise in minimum wage as well as putting an end to the three-week long post-election protest by the opposition.
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Gender Road Map Guidebook
Publication Year: 2014 / Sources: Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC) & OxfamIn Cambodia there is widespread gender inequality. As a result of deeply entrenched gender norms, women and men are assigned specific roles, responsibilities and value, which prevent them from exercising their rights equally. Cambodian women continue to be relegated to a lower status than men, not only in their families and communities, but also in society at large.
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If Only Someone Had Broken the Silence
Publication Year: 2011 / Sources: Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC) & UN WomenThis book revolves around child sexual violence, an issue affecting by thousands of children in Cambodia.
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