Case study: Young Women Environmental Defender
Friday April 5th, 2024
Case Study: Young Woman Environmental Defender Chen Leakena is 24 years old. Currently, she’s living in Kampong Pang village, Kaing Cham commune, Thala Borivat district, Stung Treng province. She’s indigenous Proav. Due to living in a poor family, her parents moved from the Sambo district, Kratie province in 2007. Her mother is a coconut buyer, and her father is a boatman. In 2019, she was forced to drop out[…]
102,436 Hectares of Prey Lang Were Converted into Agricultural Land and Resettlement Areas in the Last Two Decades
Thursday September 10th, 2020
A study authored by the Ecology Program of Jesuit Service Cambodia (JSC), in partnership with Cambodian Youth Network (CYN), of the change in forest cover in the Prey Lang Protected Area compared satellite imagery taken in the year 2000 and 2019, and found that 102,436 hectares of forest became barren or were converted into crops, plantations, and human settlement areas during that time period. This number of hectares represents around[…]
102,436 Hectares of Prey Lang Were Converted into Agricultural Land and Resettlement Areas in the Last Two Decades
Monday August 10th, 2020
10 August 2020 – A study authored by the Ecology Program of Jesuit Service Cambodia (JSC), in partnership with Cambodian Youth Network (CYN), of the change in forest cover in the Prey Lang Protected Area compared satellite imagery taken in the year 2000 and 2019, and found that 102,436 hectares of forest became barren or were converted into crops, plantations, and human settlement areas during that time period. This number[…]
Suspend development projects destroying the Tompoun/Cheung Ek wetlands
Monday July 27th, 2020
New report reveals human rights abuses and environmental devastation as private developments threaten to flood Phnom Penh Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), Cambodia Youth Network (CYN), Equitable Cambodia (EC), Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) More than one million people across Phnom Penh are facing the risk of increased flooding and over one thousand more families are at risk of evictions, loss of income and food[...]
Internet Code of Ethics Handbook
Wednesday May 27th, 2020
Cambodian Youth Network (CYN) is publishing a handbook on "Internet Code of Ethics". This handbook was developed as a guide for serving as a document to inform internet users about internet ethics, promote freedom of expression with respect and responsibility especially with the internet users and reduce an unethical and illegal changes among some internet users in Cambodia. The handbook on Internet Code of Ethics is developed in simple form[...]