PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – Cambodia's highest court released an activist on bail Friday after she served more than a year in prison on charges widely condemned as trumped up to silence a government critic ...

Neither prison nor constant threats have stopped Bopha from continuing her fight against the displacement of thousands of residents. In an interview for IFEX’s 8 March 2014 Women’s Day action, Yorm ...

First-generation Ghanaian-American Vonnie Williams is a food and travel journalist based in New York. She specializes in writing about the relationship between food, culture, and identity. When ...

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Supporters of imprisoned Boeung Kak lake land activist Yorm Bopha surged into the grounds of the Supreme Court in Phnom Penh yesterday morning, screaming and crying, after Bopha's second appeal for ...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, has received new information and requests your urgent ...

Yorm Bopha, a Cambodian activist, who was imprisoned on false charges to keep her quiet, has been released after more than 85,000 people signed our global petition including nearly 18,000 from the UK.

Yorm Bopha is a campaigner from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A year ago, she was imprisoned after peacefully protesting against forced evictions in her community. Her trial was unfair, and she was convicted ...

Borei Keila activist Tim Sakmony, 66, spent months by the side of Boeung Kak lake land-rights activist Yorm Bopha when the two were locked in Prey Sar prison together last year. To this day she does ...

Geneva-Paris, November 22, 2013. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for ...

IN THE past decade hundreds of thousands of Cambodians have been pushed off the land they occupy. In the countryside, it is often to make way for rubber plantations developed by government cronies, ...

Neither prison nor constant threats have stopped Bopha from continuing her fight against the displacement of thousands of residents. … I want to push Cambodian women to speak the truth. Because if we ...