Friday, December 03, 2010

Report Links Businesses With Rights Abuses

Children sit on top their inundated homes, where Shukaku, Inc., has been pumping fill into Boeung Kak lake, in early November 2010. (Photo: by Heng Reaksmey)
Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh Thursday, 02 December 2010
"Evictions are regularly conducted by armed Cambodian troops and police, while the political and economic elite benefit from forced evictions.”

Government spokesman Phay Siphan called the report an “attack from a non-governmental organization.”
Government officials and businesses, backed by a biased court system, are behind many of the most egregious rights violations in the country, a new report has found.

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights found what it called a governance gap, where the authorities are unable to protect citizens from rights violations brought about by powerful business interests.

The group also found financial ties between individuals in government and businesses responsible for rights violations, exacerbating the problem. In some situations, it was hard to tell the difference between the government and business, the center said in its report, “Business and Human Rights in Cambodia.”

Land rights violations brought on by economic motives have become endemic, the report said. And land cases and their respective crackdowns have meant curbs on land and labor rights and the freedom of expression and assembly, the report said.


“Victims of evictions are rarely given an opportunity for participation or consultation beforehand and any information which is provided to residents is often incomplete and inaccurate,” it said. “When consultations with communities facing the threat of eviction do occur, they are often manipulative or coercive. Evictions are regularly conducted by armed Cambodian troops and police, while the political and economic elite benefit from forced evictions.”

Rights activists, meanwhile, face regular threats of physical violence or criminal charges when they voice their opposition to harmful developments, it said.

Victims of land or labor violations who seek to demonstrate or protest meet “public and private forces [that] collude to deny them these rights,” it said, adding that the courts were also not free of political or financial influence.

“The judicial mechanisms in Cambodia are in practice utilized by the political, economic and social elite to ensure impunity,” the report said.

Government spokesman Phay Siphan called the report an “attack from a non-governmental organization.”

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

The Love of Money is this root of evil. Money answer all matters.

Anonymous said...

The report is more than 100% accurate, let me give you a thumb up for your work! Well done!

Phay Siphan......you should learn how to see and NOT learn how to listen....you are just the monkey government's parrot that was taught to say man!

Assume that if this problem ever happens to your family, what would you say? Don't try to be dumb as your bosses are already extremely dumb and only need money...other things never care


A curse from people in Boeng Kok would surely hurt your boss (monkey government and their cronies) particularly the Shukaku will GO TO HELL SOON and BANKRUBTED

Kon Khmer

Anonymous said...

8:00 AM

But not, your health and insanity.

Anonymous said...

8:ooAM! money is onlu tool!
Motherfucker crazy of power and wealt!

Dont be stupid like ah Pol Pot!

Anonymous said...

Why does money care about my health and sanity; tell that to FDA and the Pharmaceutical Companies, they are killing people every day with their money drugs. Money answereth all matters! Sure look like it answered for this company to pursue their development plan?

Anonymous said...

LONG LIVE VIET NAM..

Good work Phay Siphan... for your lips services and support

Anonymous said...

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