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On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh, the Heinrich Böll Foundation organised a conference with the purpose of assessing the achievements and the shortcomings in Cambodia’s transitional justice process. “Justice and Reconciliation after the Khmer Rouge Regime: What has been achieved?” took place in Meta House, Phnom Penh, on 18 February 2015, and brought together researchers, lawyers, experts from a number of different disciplines as well as Khmer Rouge victims.   

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Early on in my research stay I was at a conference organised by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and I noticed there was one theme that was brought up repeatedly by Cambodian participants: how particularly terrible the Cambodian genocide was compared with others, because it was Khmer on Khmer violence, people killing their own. This is an argument, or maybe better said a statement, which I have heard many times again since, both at conferences and in interviews for my fieldwork. 

The COP 20’s “Lima call for climate action” is no wake-up call but a worrisome sign of a feeble multilateral climate process plagued by political deafness and leaving poor and vulnerable communities alone with the impacts of climate change.

Dear Donors and NGOs Partners On behalf of organizing committee, I would like to invite you all to attend the Public forum on the concern of farmers, youth, and workers of the Three draft law such Agricultural land law, Cybercrime law, and Trade Union Law that will be hell at Freedom Park on 21 December, 2014 at 8:00am-5:00pm. Please kindly find the files attached of tentative agenda. This event co-organized by Solidarity House such CCFC, CYN, CFSWF, IDEA, CICA, and UCL. The objective of the forum aim to 1). To share the analyses result and common concern related to the draft laws to youth, 2). To enable understanding of youth, worker, community and farmers to draft Cybercrime law, Agricultural law, and trade union law, 3). Urge the government to  have wide consultation with civil society, youth and grassroots people.  There are 1000 participants will attend in the forum who monks, youth, farmers, worker, tuk tuk driver, social media activist, and other stakeholders.Your participation is truly necessary and valuable for us. Please Joint the Solidarity Action Together! 

Balloons, Flowers and Barbed Wire... - John Vink Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. I am a Land Rights activist involved working in a local organization called Housing Rights Task Force for the last 3 years. My NGO had been following the Boeung Kak Land Rights activists since they lost their homes when the Government granted their land to the senator Lao Meng Khin for a private development project. Their land case is not an isolated one: more than 750.000 Cambodians have been affected by forced evictions since 2001.

December 7, 2014The Clean Sugar Campaign welcomes the commencement of a joint EU-Cambodia process to assess displacement claims pertaining to sugarcane plantations in Cambodia. This development represents a pivotal step towards justice for thousands of Cambodian people who have suffered enormously at the hands of the sugar industry.

Phnom Penh, October 26, 2014Heinrich-Böll Foundation has been supporting the Cambodian Indigenous Youth Organization (CIYA) for more than 7 years now. CIYA was established by a group of Cambodian indigenous people and attempts to provide an indigenous youth group serving as a social network in Phnom Penh, as well as strengthening the capacity of these indigenous students and empowering them as the future generation of their indigenous communities. 

How does the Federal Government view the dramatically worsened human-rights situation in Cambodia, against the background of the most recent wave of arrests of land-rights and human-rights activists, along with opposition politicians, the sentencing of seven land-rights activists to a year's imprisonment for obstructing traffic and the murder of the journalist Taing Try while investigating illegal logging; and what moves will Dr Friedrich Kitschelt, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, make during his visit at the end of the month to improve the situation?