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16 Days: Just say no to sexual violence
News, Published on 08/12/2021
» This Friday is not only Human Rights Day but also the last day of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, an annual campaign that began on Nov 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Cambodia sentencing of autistic teen is 'shameful nadir': UN experts
AFP, Published on 02/11/2021
» UN rights experts on Tuesday condemned as a "shameful nadir" Cambodia's sentencing of an autistic teenager to eight months in prison for sending Telegram messages that were deemed insulting to the government.
How Russia built its digital Iron Curtain
Published on 23/10/2021
» Russia’s boldest moves to censor the internet began in the most mundane of ways — with a series of bureaucratic emails and forms.
Thousands brave heat as delayed Dubai Expo finally opens
AFP, Published on 02/10/2021
» DUBAI - Thousands of people toured Dubai's Expo 2020 on the opening day on Friday, braving hot temperatures as the Covid-delayed world fair finally opened its doors one year late.
Another deadly year for LatAm environment defenders
AFP, Published on 13/09/2021
» BOGOTA - A record 227 people were killed worldwide in 2020 for their defense of nature -- more than four a week on average, and almost three-quarters of them in Latin America, environmental rights organization Global Witness said Sunday.
'Just shoot me': Afghan star recalls surreal Kabul escape
AFP, Published on 11/09/2021
» ISTANBUL - Afghan pop star Aryana Sayeed recalls asking her fiance one thing as they snuck into Kabul's chaotic airport after the Taliban moved in: "Don't let them take me away alive".
Health fears growing for held activist
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 03/09/2021
» The Save Bang Kloi Coalition yesterday filed a petition with the National Human Rights Commission demanding an investigation into how a Karen rights activist contracted Covid-19 while imprisoned.
Family of slain Cambodia activist Kem Ley mark five year anniversary
AFP, Published on 10/07/2021
» PHNOM PENH - As the family of slain Cambodian activist Kem Ley rebuild their lives in Australia, his youngest son, born just months after the assassination, acts as a human timepiece measuring the years since the five brothers lost their father.
Cambodia charges conservationists with plotting, royal insults
Reuters, Published on 21/06/2021
» PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian court has charged four environmental activists with insulting the country's king and conspiracy to plotting, a prosecutor said on Monday, following the arrest of three of them last week as they documented waste discharge into a city river.
Doctors Without Borders: 50 years of horror and heroism
AFP, Published on 07/06/2021
» PARIS: It grew out of the ideals of a group of newly qualified French doctors who wanted to be on the ground helping those most in need anywhere in the world.