Joint Statement On Call for a Transparent Investigation and a Stop to Grassroots Activism Interference following Hong Kong’s Seizure of More Than 211 Tons of Rare Timber Exported from Cambodia
Friday June 4th, 2021
Phnom Penh, May 27, 2021 We, the undersigned associations, unions, civil society organizations, environmental activists, acitizens, and international scientists are very concerned after seeing the press release issued by
102,436 Hectares of Prey Lang Were Converted into Agricultural Land and Resettlement Areas in the Last Two Decades
Thursday September 10th, 2020
A study authored by the Ecology Program of Jesuit Service Cambodia (JSC), in partnership with Cambodian Youth Network (CYN), of the change in forest cover in the Prey Lang Protected Area compared satellite imagery taken in the year 2000 and 2019, and found that 102,436 hectares of forest became barren or were converted into crops, plantations, and human settlement areas during that time period. This number of hectares represents around[…]
At Least 14 Activists Arrested in Cambodia since August
Thursday September 10th, 2020
An unprecedented string of arrests has taken place since early August 2020 and shows no sign of slowing down as the government targets youth and environmental activists. PHNOM PENH–Some 14 activists have been arrested by the Cambodian authorities over the course of the past month, with youth activists, environmentalists, politicians, a rapper and a monk being rounded up in the wake of outspoken unionist Rong Chhun’s arrest. Throughout August[…]
Release Imprisoned Activists and End Crackdown Against Young Cambodians
Wednesday September 9th, 2020
09-Sep-2020: We, the undersigned civil society groups, condemn the arrests of seven young activists over the past few days, and call for all charges against those imprisoned to be dropped immediately. We urge the government to end its campaign of fear and repression against peaceful youth and environmental human rights defenders, and ensure the rights of the Cambodian people to peacefully advocate for themselves, their families and their communities are[…]
Joint Statement: Draft Law on Public Order Violates Women’s Rights
Friday August 28th, 2020
As representatives of organizations working to promote women’s rights and gender equality in Cambodia, we wish to express our deep concern regarding numerous articles within the Draft Law on Public Order (DLPO), provisions of which violate women’s human rights. We therefore also endorse and echo the call made to the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) in a Joint Civil Society Statement on August 13, 2020, to scrap the draft law. We[…]
THE CAMBODIAN GOVERNMENT MUST STOP BEATING AND ARRESTING PEACEFUL PROTESTERS
Tuesday August 18th, 2020
August 18, 2020 – We, the undersigned civil society groups, strongly condemn the Cambodian authorities’ use of violence against peaceful demonstrators and the recent arrests of more than a dozen activists. Over the past few weeks, authorities have waged an increasingly brutal crackdown on peaceful protests that began after the arrest and imprisonment of union leader Rong Chhun at the start of August. Since Chhun’s arrest, six more individuals have been[…]
Joint Statement: Civil Society organizations Call for the Draft Law on Public Order to be Immediately Discard
Thursday August 13th, 2020
Phnom Penh, 13 August 2020 – We, the undersigned national and international organizations and communities, call on the Royal Government of Cambodia (“RGC”) to immediately discard the repressive draft Law on Public Order and uphold its obligations under international human rights law. The draft law contains an extensive array of provisions that effectively criminalize the legitimate everyday activities of many within the Kingdom of Cambodia (“Cambodia”), in violation of their rights to freedom of expression,[…]
Report shows 100,000 hectares of forest lost in Prey Lang
Tuesday August 11th, 2020
The Prey Lang Protected Area has lost more than 100,000 hectares of forest between 2000 and 2019, more than half of which became plantations, according to a report released August 10 by the NGO Jesuit Service Cambodia’s Ecology Program and the Cambodian Youth Network. To determine forest loss and recovery over the nearly two decade period, the Technical Report on Forest-Cover Change Detection in the Prey Land Protected Area of[…]
Prey Lang Forest Has Been Reduced by Nearly a Quarter over the Last 20 Years
Tuesday August 11th, 2020
It remains the last major lowland rainforest in Southeast Asia PHNOM PENH-Prey Lang Forest has lost 102,436 hectares of forest, that is, around 24 percent of its total land area over the past two decades, according to a report released on Aug. 10. The report Ecology Program of Jesuit Service Cambodia, which was produced in partnership with the Cambodian Youth Network, found that 102,436 hectares of forest became barren[…]
A new study found that, forest-cover of Prey Lang more than 10 ha were lost in last 20 years
Tuesday August 11th, 2020
Source: RFI
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