Statement

Authorities must immediately stop using violence and arbitrary application of laws against peaceful women strikers

Phnom Penh, 24 February 2022 - We, the undersigned civil society groups, communities and trade unions, are dismayed by recent incidents of state-sponsored violence, including sexual harassment, against Cambodian women engaged in peaceful strikes and assemblies. Members of the Labor Rights Supported Union of Khmer Employees of NagaWorld (LRSU) – most of whom are women – have been subjected to violence, imprisonment, and arbitrary application of COVID-19 measures in response to their peaceful strike since December 2021. Authorities have repeatedly pushed, dragged and carried peaceful strikers onto buses to take the...