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The 13 women were found guilty of illegally taking land and resisting public officers.
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Around 50 demonstrators gathered in front of Phnom Penh municipal court Wednesday morning, where they stayed all day.
Guide by Geneva-based NGO Interpeace summarizes decades of best practices.
City officials could not be reached for comment, but rights workers said they expect the 13 detainees will appear in court Wednesday.
Two demonstrations—one of factory workers and one of displaced city residents—were held on Monday.
Security forces have left a village in Kratie that was the site of the shooting death of a teenage girl by government forces last week.
The delegation also met with UN officials in New York last week and were scheduled to talk with the US State Department Friday.
More youth are engaging in environmental protection, especially in forest communities where illegal logging is rampant.
Those arrested were Khat Sovann, 54, Pum Vannak, 53, Pon Soeurn, 34, and an unnamed fourth suspect.
Rights workers estimated between 400 and 1,000 villagers in Broma village, Chlong district, were set to be evicted.
Family members say Chan Samnang died because of exposure to poor living conditions at a relocation site outside the city.
The Khmer Krom and other groups say their rights and freedoms are restricted by the current Vietnamese government.
Villagers say they have been pushed off nearly 1,500 hectares of land to make way for the senator’s sugar cane crops.
The country had nearly 450,000 Internet users at the end of 2011, according to the Internet World Stats website.
Joel Brinkley, a professor of journalism, spoke to VOA Khmer recently about his book and possible solutions to Cambodia’s “curse.”
An estimated 2.3 million hectares were given over as concessions to private companies in recent years, Adhoc recently reported.
A United Nations-appointed rights watchdog is calling on Cambodia to bridge the widening gap between the rich and the poor.
The 27-minute film follows the work of a leading NGO working to rally support for an end to widespread land grabbing in Cambodia.
The survey questioned 2,000 people in face-to-face responses in November and December last year.
Subedi told about 100 evictees from Borei Keila and the Boeung Kak lake development site that he had a “great deal of sympathy".
Cambodia held its annual Plow Ceremony on Wednesday, with royal oxen predicting a good year for beans and corn.
