More than 400,000 women work in the garment industry in Cambodia, making clothes for a long list of international clothing brands. Factories and brands occasionally make headlines for substandard working conditions, but the struggle for
Recently, the Swedish TV program “Kalla Fakta,’ aired an investigative documentary about factory conditions for H&M garment workers in Cambodia. The program focused on conditions at M&V International, a factory that employs around 5,000 workers in Cambodia’s
On October 15, 2012, Cambodia’s former King, Norodom Sihanouk, passed away in hospital in Beijing, China, at the age of 90. Two days later, an estimated 1 million people lined the streets as his
Early this morning, members of Phnom Penh’s Boeung Kak Lake and Borei Keila communities rallied outside the Ministry of Justice to demand the release of two female land activists, Yorm Bopha and Tim Sakmony.
Mam Sonando is the owner and director of Beehive Radio, a station praised as one of Cambodia’s few independent news outlets. Earlier today, the 71-year-old activist was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The charges
Keo Nea looked so beautiful at her wedding, you almost wouldn’t have noticed the month-old bullet wound on her arm. Still, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life,
I’ve had a lot of nicknames in my life, but no doubt the strangest one came in university when my roommates started jokingly calling me ‘No Logo’ – a reference to Naomi Klein’s book
“My name Ousa. People here difficult. We want organization help. Need small clinic. No toilet here. Help people.” I had only given Ousa my notebook to write down his name, but these are the words he left me with.
INTRO: During nearly 3 decades of armed conflict, the Khmer Rouge, as well as the Vietnamese and Cambodian Armed Forces, laid an estimated 4 to 6 million landmines throughout Cambodia. The country is now
INTRO: After intense pressure from the World Bank, the Cambodian government granted a small plot of land to a thousand families facing eviction from a lake in the center of the capital. The residents
During nearly three decades of conflict, an estimated 4 to 6 million landmines were laid in Cambodia since 1970. War has ended, but its remnants are hidden underground, lurking in soil that is desperately
Scenes amidst the destruction caused by what has been described as Cambodia’s worst flooding in decades. Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Burma, and the Philippines have also been badly
