Women’s​ and Children’s Rights

REPORT: Issues of Women’s Rights, Child Rights and Migrant Workers’ Rights in Cambodia

- by ADHOC- Cambodia

This report presents ADHOC’s findings on issues related to women’s, children’s and migrant workers’ rights in Cambodia. It outlines four key challenges associated with these rights, based on the statistics gathered by ADHOC staff in 23 provinces/municipalities and information from other organizations documenting rights violations in Cambodia. The four key challenges are: domestic violence, rape, human trafficking, and abuses of migrant workers.

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Press Conference on Trafficking and Migration during the First Quarter of 2013

- by ADHOC- Cambodia

On 12 January 2013, ADHOC received a phone call from Mr. Koy Savy, 33, a fisherman who had been working in Mauritius. Koy Savy’s home is located in Chheuteal Chrum village, Chalat commune, Anlong Veng district, Oddar Meanchey province.

Savy had left for Thailand with fellow villagers across the Poi Pet border on 8 April 2010. When he arrived in Thailand, he was sent to work on a Thai boat. It took them 23 days to reach their destination. There were 27 persons on the boat, including 23 Cambodian workers and 4 Thai nationals. Savy and 22 Cambodian workers worked on the boat under the direction of a Thai boss for almost three years, without getting any wage and without having any contact with his relatives in Cambodia.

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ADHOC Expresses Concerns over Trial of Three Human Rights Defenders in Preah Vihear Province that will continue on 1 March 2012

- by ADHOC- Cambodia

Phnom Penh, 16 February 2012 ― The trial of three community representatives opened on 15 February 2012 at Preah Vihear Provincial Court: Mrs. Sath Savouan (44), Mr. Kim Sophal (44) and Mr. Srei Sophan (74) were charged of forgery, incitement and disinformation. A complaint was lodged against them at the instigation of Pen Lim, a high-ranking military official embroiled in a land dispute in Kantout commune, Choam Ksann district, Preah Vihear province. ADHOC provided a lawyer to provide legal advice and to defend the three accused who would otherwise not have been able to afford legal representation. The trial, background and details of which are described below, will continue with a hearing on the 1 March.

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Pressconference of Rape in Cambodia

- by ADHOC- Cambodia

The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) has serious concerns on the increasing number of rape cases in Cambodia in the last couple of years. Although not all of the reported cases in the newspapers could be verified or investigated but most appear to be the same cases received and investigated by ADHOC.During the last two years (2009, 2010 and the first trimester of 2011), an alarming number of rape cases have been reported to ADHOC. From January 1st to December 31st 2010, ADHOC investigated 501 complaints of rape and indecent assault an increase of 9% (460 cases) from 2009. During the first trimester of 2011, ADHOC recorded a total of 156 cases of rape and indecent assault. If law enforcement is still lacking and serious measure has not been taken to prevent the increasing numbers of rape and indecent assault, rape cases will continue to rise to 600 cases or more

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