World Environment Day, a United Nations initiative to promote environmental awareness, annually falls on June 5. The Ministry of Environment is set to mark the day by raising awareness on air pollution, while environmental groups and civil society organisations are focusing on addressing climate change. Every year on June 5, countries around the world celebrate World Environment Day, a United Nations initiative to promote environmental awareness. Some countries began celebrating[...]

Environmental organizations and associations have called on the government to increase the budget for activities related to the protection of natural resources and the environment, as well as strengthening law enforcement, as young people express concern over climate change. The request was made through a joint statement between the Youth for Society, the Cambodian Youth Network, Equitable Cambodia, Cambodian Volunteers for Society and young individuals participating in World Environment Day[…]

Young Cambodians are eager for change and represent a large voting demographic, but their growing activism can also put youths at risk. WASHINGTON DC — Cambodia’s energized youth activists and large demographic of young voters could become key actors in halting the country’s democratic backsliding, political analysts said, though they warned that challenging the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) could also put youths at serious risk. “Youth, young people under 30, make[…]

Cambodian Youth Network Association (CYN) was participating The MRC International Conference was launched today with the theme “Enhancing Joint Efforts and Partnerships towards Achievement of the SDGs in the Mekong River Basin.” Speaking at the opening ceremony, H.E. Mr. Lim Kean Hor, Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology , Member of the MRC Council for Cambodia, emphasized: “Our vision is that of an economically prosperous, socially just and environmentally by[…]

Close to 300 farmers from four provinces affected by longstanding land disputes marched and delivered petitions to government institutions in Phnom Penh today. Farmers from Tbong Khmum, Svay Rieng, Sihanoukville and Kandal went to the Council of Ministers, National Assembly and the Ministry of Land Management. They called for intervention to resolve decade-long conflicts affecting the land of thousands of families which they say was grabbed by powerful individuals and[…]

Are you a group of youth between the ages of 15 and 30? Are you looking for funds to run your project? So this is an opportunity for all of young people, young human rights defenders, officially registered youth groups, as well as grassroots youths who can apply for a budget proposal to implement your plan by the Danish Church Aid (DCA) in collaboration with the Cambodian Center for independent[…]

Checkpoints went up on national roads, barricades were dumped in front of the Supreme Court and police paid unannounced visits to civil society organisations and opposition officials as darkness fell yesterday ahead of today’s Supreme Court hearing on the dissolution of the opposition CNRP. The security measures coincided with reports of a sharp uptick in harassment and surveillance of Cambodia National Rescue Party officials in the provinces, party members said[…]

The Interior Ministry has instructed provincial officials to urgently report any instances in which activities are carried out by any NGOs or grassroots associations without prior notification, adding that authorities can stop any planned events if they affect “public order and national security”. The letter, which was dispatched countrywide on October 2, coincides with an intensified government crackdown on nongovernmental organisations. “Associations and NGOs wishing to conduct activities in the[…]