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Saturday, 8 May 2021, 4:58 pm GENEVA (7 May 2021) – A UN expert today condemned a decision by a Cambodian court to sentence three environmental human rights defenders to jail terms of up to 20 months and urged the Government to release them immediately and unconditionally. The convicted human rights defenders - Mr. Thun Ratha, Ms. Long Kunthea and Ms. Phuon Keoraksmey – are members of Mother Nature Cambodia (MNC), a non-governmental organization that advocates for the protection and preservation of Cambodia’s natural environment and supports local communities in defending those rights...

Cambodia: UN expert condemns conviction of three environmental rights defenders, urges their release GENEVA (7 May 2021) – A UN expert today condemned a decision by a Cambodian court to sentence three environmental human rights defenders to jail terms of up to 20 months and urged the Government to release them immediately and unconditionally. The convicted human rights defenders - Mr. Thun Ratha, Ms. Long Kunthea and Ms. Phuon Keoraksmey – are members of Mother Nature Cambodia (MNC), a non-governmental organization that advocates for the protection and preservation of Cambodia's natu...

Cambodia: UN expert condemns conviction of three environmental rights defenders, urges their release GENEVA (7 May 2021) – A UN expert today condemned a decision by a Cambodian court to sentence three environmental human rights defenders to jail terms of up to 20 months and urged the Government to release them immediately and unconditionally. The convicted human rights defenders - Mr. Thun Ratha, Ms. Long Kunthea and Ms. Phuon Keoraksmey – are members of Mother Nature Cambodia (MNC), a non-governmental organization that advocates for the protection and preservation of Cambodia's natu...

Lao PDR: Five years after arrest, human rights defenders still denied access to lawyers – UN expert GENEVA (12 April 2021) – A UN expert called on the Government of Lao PDR to immediately release three human rights defenders who have been detained for more than five years, saying their continued imprisonment was an impediment to the advancement of human rights in the South-East Asian nation. A court in the capital, Vientiane, sentenced Ms. Lodkham Thammavong, Mr. Soukane Chaithad and Mr. Somphone Phimmasone to prison terms of up to 30 years in 2017 after they took part in a demonstra...

Here’s Why Evermore Global Advisors Remains Optimistic in Emergent Capital (EMGCQ) Evermore Global Advisors, an investment management firm, published its “Evermore Global Value Fund” fourth quarter 2020 investor letter – a copy of which can be downloaded here.  A return of 13.85% was recorded by the Institutional Class shares of the Evermore Global Value Fund (“EVGIX”) for the year end of 2020, outperforming its S&P 500 benchmark that delivered a 12.2% return, but slightly below its MSCI Europe index that delivered a 15.6% gain in the same period. You can view the fund’s top 5 ...