The Social Affairs Ministry said it plans to reduce the number of people detained at Phnom Penh’s Prey Speu center, months after a local NGO said detainees had died at the center in 2022.
Aggressive, exorbitant and misleading lending is mushrooming across social media and mobile phone services, damaging livelihoods and the country’s financial stability, the central bank and National Police said on Thursday, pledging legal action against the lenders.
Kea Sokun, 24, said he was worried for his safety after NGO leaders involved in the video’s production were summoned for hours of questioning earlier this week, but has not received any summons himself.
Licadho has removed a rap video that marked nine years since deadly violence at mass worker protests, saying the police had warned that if the group refused, authorities would take further legal action.
A right group’s head has been questioned by cybercrime police over the NGO’s involvement in releasing a rap video commemorating the ninth anniversary of bloody clashes between security personnel and garment workers.
For more than a year now since his release from jail, Sokun has been trying to raise awareness on social issues — toeing the line between rebellious social commentary and avoiding offense.
Three human rights organizations have filed a complaint against a Netherlands-based microfinance investor on the grounds that it violated international responsible business standards and for years ignored its own evidence of harms linked to predatory lending practices.
There have been at least 10 alleged deaths at a so-called vocational center run by the government, said a rights group, which called for immediate closure of the facility.
A large public survey of rural Cambodian households commissioned by the German government to investigate microloans found over-indebtedness, pressure to sell land and aggressive door-to-door marketing, and calls for phasing out public funds from the sector.
The website of human rights group Licadho was temporarily hacked, while the three Kampong Thom military police officers have been charged with manslaughter for a death in custody.
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