Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Michelle Fitzpatrick – AFP – Friday, 16 November 2012 (originally published 12 Nov) PHNOM PENH — For three decades the scars branded onto Kim Khem’s arms have been a reminder of the sexual torture she saw under the Khmer Rouge. Now, aged 80, she is finally breaking her silence on the horrors of the past. [...]
Associated Press – The Seattle Times – Friday, 15 June 2012 (originally published 11 Jun) PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Four Cambodian women imprisoned for protesting their eviction from the land where their homes once stood have begun a hunger strike, a rights group said Monday. They are among 13 women sentenced last month by a [...]
Liam Cochrane – ABC Radio Australia – Friday, 20 January 2012 An opposition MP in Cambodia has called on the Australian Government to pay more attention to human rights issues, after 22 women and children broke out of a detention centre in dramatic scenes on Wednesday. Mu Sochua has also called on the Cambodian Red [...]
Eleanor Goldberg – Huffington Post – Monday, 05 December 2011 (originally posted 30 Nov) This story is part of a series celebrating HIV/AIDS activists in honor of Thursday’s World AIDS Day. Her house has been burned down. She’s had her car jacked. Her daughter was kidnapped, drugged and raped. But still, sex trafficking survivor Somaly [...]
Robert Carmichael in Phnom Penh – The Independent (UK) – Tuesday, 28 June, 2011 (originally published 27 June) Pen Sokchan was just 16 when in late 1978 she was ordered to marry a Khmer Rouge soldier, a man who was a stranger to her. More than 30 years on, she remembers how she tried to [...]
