Cambodia: International Women's Day celebrations blocked
Event- Country
- Cambodia
- Initial Date
- Mar 8, 2019
- Event Description
More than 60 people from four different communities across Kampong Cham province’s Memot district are prevented from celebrating International Women’s Day by Memot district governor Cheng Bunna, who along with commune officials claimed that the communities had not registered their plans with local authorities. A Tunlong community representative is threatened with imprisonment if the celebrations go ahead as planned.
- Impact of Event
- 1
- Gender of HRD
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- Administrative Harassment
- Intimidation and Threats
- Rights Concerned
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of movement
- Offline
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- HRD
- Community-based HRD
- WHRD
- Perpetrator-State
- Government
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 11.992826273010273
Longitude: 105.45801123354686
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 8 March 2019, over 60 WHRDs and community-based defenders were prevented from celebrating the International Women's Day by the local governor, who claimed they lacked the registration and threatened one HRD with imprisonment in Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia.