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DanChurchAid and the local partners LICADHO and Legal Aid Cambodia have worked together since 2004 to improve the rights of children in Cambodia.
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Farmers in Cambodias Kompong Speu province are working to make their villages more resilient to the recurring natural disasters, such as drought or floods, hitting the area as a result of changes in the climate. Meet them in our audioslideshows and videos.
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DanChurhAid and Christian Aid have joined offices in Phnom Penh.
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DanChurchAid and Christian Aid works with a range of local and international organisations with HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention and care. View list of partners here.
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A flock of chickens and a hen house. This is what the 40-year-old Chanthon from Cambodia’s Battambang province got for the DKK 150 which she borrowed in December from a local lending group established by LWF Cambodia with support from DanChurchAid
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About 1% of the Cambodian population is infected with HIV or AIDS. Cambodia's women are the new high risk group of infection. They get infected by their husbands and are, apart from the health risks, also in high risk of ending up in extreme poverty. HIV is still a stigmatizing disease in Cambodia although; however, it has changed a lot after several HIV and AIDS awareness campaigns throughout the country.
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”Couple killed in violent land clearing”, ”Land-rights activist children helt hostage”, ”Villagers attacks machinery in land confrontation”. Everyday similar headlines fill the Cambodian newspapers. Land is one of the most salient issues in Cambodia.
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The Cambodian Interior Ministry recently removed four pictures from an exhibition of drawings made by juveniles in Cambodian prisons. The pictures – from the exhibition “Our Drawings” arranged by DanChurchAid – were removed and forgotten. Not unlike one of the artists, 13-year-old Sokhun who has been in prison for almost a year in Cambodia.
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1,6% of the population of Cambodia is living with HIV/AIDS. DanChurchAid works with HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention, care and support in the rural communities.
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Four pictures were removed from the art exhibition "Our drawings" at the National Cultural Center. The drawings are made by children between the ages of 13 and 17 who were inmates in prisons in Phnom Penh, Kandal and Siem Reap provinces. The exhibition was supported by DanChurchAid.
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Contact information: DanChurchAid's regional office in Cambodia. Contact information: Asia desk at DanChurchAid headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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In October 2005, radio director Mam Sonando packs his toothbrush and his tie. The items are in his drawer in his office at the radio station already. Then he turns towards the two policemen who wait for him in the door. They have come to arrest him and the next four months, Mam Sonando spends in jail, charged with defamation of Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen. During the next three months an additional seven journalists, human rights front men and opposition politicians get arrested for similar offences. And that's how the year 2006 began in Cambodia. With a sizeable portion of democrats in jail.
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The Khmer Rouge Trials in Cambodia recently moved significantly forward after a seven months long standstill.
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The site smells like burned tires, garbage and dirt. There are no toilets, no clean water, no roads and no houses. Nothing but hundreds of simple shelters made from wooden poles and plastic. Andong, described as the trashcan of Phnom Penh by a NGO worker, is the place where former slum dwellers reside, placed here by the government, with promises of new land, food and money. Over 1000 families are forced to call this former rice field - 25 kilometers from the city - home.
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Cambodian Heng was arrested by the police, when he was 12 years old. They knocked on his family's door one day and took him to the police station.
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Nearly 500 children are currently detained in Cambodia’s prisons. For these children, the prisons they call “home” are overcrowded, unhygienic and lacking in basic facilities. Many are detained with adults, they are regularly held in pre-trial detention that exceeds the legal time limit, and many are sentenced to prison time without any regard to their age. A coalition of local and international groups has called on the government to pass legislation to protect the children.
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After 20 years on the run, Kong Pov dreams about settling as a farmer. Through the 1980s and 1990s, young Kong Pov accompanied her husband who was a Khmer Rouge soldier. The battles decided their destinations.
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Poor farmers who cooperate and share their knowledge harvest more. That is the philosophy of the Farmer Field School.
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Thanks to a big effort from about 700 volunteer refund collectors at this year's Roskilde Festival, DanChurchAid and Roskilde Festival announce the record-breaking result of DKK 1.5 million (approx. € 202,000). The profits are donated to two of DanChurchAid's Cambodian partner organisation, Ponleur Kumar and Friends, who both work on preventing and fighting modern slavery.
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Rights-based approaches in Cambodia: International Director of DanChurchAid, Christian Friis Bach, has just visited LWF Cambodia programme in Sleng Village, where rights-based approaches begins to work successfully.
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28 years ago Khmer Rouge lost power in Cambodia. Only now the country seems ready to face the confrontation with the leaders responsible for the death of more than two million Cambodians.
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DanChurchAid’s partners in Cambodia behind pressure for a legal confrontation with the leadership of Khmer Rouge. Local partner DC-Cam (Documentation Center of Cambodia) has for years been active in the Khmer Rouge Trial and has collected 1.6 million stories from survivors to be presented at the trial.
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Human trafficking can be described as a modern-day form of slavery. Trafficking involves the transport or trade of people within and across borders for the purpose of forcing them into slavery conditions. Trafficking is a serious violation of human rights. In Cambodia, DanChurchAid works for the recognition of trafficked persons, especially women and girls, to be seen as victims with rights - in need of protection and assistance - rather than as offenders or illegal migrants.
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Since 2002 DanChurchAid has cooperated with Roskilde Music Festival about the humanitarian focus and the humanitarian deposit collection at the festival. The money raised from the humanitarian bottle refund collection 2006 will be donated to DanChurchAid partners in Cambodia.
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Efforts against human trafficking pays off – but trafficking remains. DanChurchAid in Cambodia focuses on assisting young women subject to trafficking to find alternative livelihoods.
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