PHNOM PENH
That he speaks, thinks and dreams in Khmer, the official language of Cambodia, is nothing unusual for Liv Yang Bin, an ethnic Vietnamese man whose great-grandparents settled generations earlier in the Trouy Sla commune, about 50km south of the capital, Phnom Penh.
“We are all Cambodians here. But the Khmer families, they own land or run shops. They live in the front of the village; we live here in the back,” said the 66 year old, whose community depends on fishing.
About 5 percent of Cambodia s 15 million people are ethnic Vietnamese. Like Liv, most have lived here for generations and identify themselves as Cambodian, yet they do not hold citizenship and are barred from access to basic rights, according to activists.
The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) has finished the first draft of the law on the establishment of the National Human Rights Institution and will continue discussions with other relevant parties soon to finalise the bill.
25 Mai 2021 – According to recent reports, Myanmar
’s military junta uses torture and sexual violence against detained women. Victims complained about heavy beatings, sexual abuse during interrogations, misogynistic insults, and death threats.
Since the military coup on 1 February 2021, the junta has cracked down on protests and committed serious human rights violations including torture, arbitrary detention, extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances. Myanmar’s army is also known for using sexual violence to crush minority communities at the border regions.
Despite the military’s threats, a nonviolent civil disobedience movement emerged nationwide, and millions started demonstrating in hundreds of townships. Myanmar is a conservative country with rigid gender roles and widespread gender-based violence. However, young women rose up and played a crucial role in the protests. They took to the streets and demanded the restoration of democracy.
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Twenty-four civil society organisations have called on the government and relevant authorities to pay more attention in preventing harassment, sexual abuse and gender-based violence during 14-day quarantine and in areas under lockdown. Facebook
CSOs urge measures against violence amid lockdown
Sun, 18 April 2021
Twenty-four civil society organisations have called on the government and relevant authorities to pay more attention in preventing harassment, sexual abuse and gender-based violence during 14-day quarantine and in areas under lockdown.
In a joint statement released on April 18, the CSOs – including the Health Association of Cambodia s (RHAC), Cambodian NGO Committee on CEDAW (NGO-CEDAW), Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR), Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (COMFREL), among others – quarantine and lockdown measures can lead to abuses if not closely monitored.