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(From left) Winrock International’s Sara Piazzano, USAID’s Sheri-Nouane Duncan-Jones, ACRA’s Ung Seang Rithy, Legal Support for Children and Women’s Mom Sokchar and the Ministry of Labour’s Hou Vudthy at a signing ceremony for a memorandum of understanding promoting ‘ethical recruitment’ of migrant workers on Thursday.

Oknha Seang Chanheng (front right) defended her claim to disputed land that is now at the centre of a large airport development in Kandal yesterday following an elaborate Buddhist ceremony at her home in Takeo.

Rice fields in Kandal Stung district’s Kandork commune that are set to become part of a large airport development announced by the government In January.

Local resident Uong Sim (right), 54, of Kandork commune, said she refuses to move unless the developers of the new airport in Kandal compensate her for the land she has lived on for two decades.

Long Chanthy, mother of San Sreylai, poses with a picture of her daughter at her 100-day funeral ceremony. Sreylai’s death prompted women’s rights activists to speak out about the need to enforce laws on domestic violence.

A large banner in English promotes new construction in Phnom Penh. The Ministry of Land Management has ordered that Khmer script be featured more prominently on common signage.

Women in Phnom Penh Thmey village say they are living in fear after their 27-year-old neighbour was raped and murdered as she walked home from work last Thursday night along the railroad tracks.

Minister of Women’s Affairs Ing Kantha Phavi (centre, in green) greets Unicef representatives at an event yesterday in Phnom Penh.

A local waterway that residents say was polluted by untreated runoff from a garment factory in Takeo’s Bati district.

Khet Pos, 25, stands next to her husband, Mroeum Di, 29, who is being treated at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital after he was shot in the head for allegedly practising sorcery.

Long Chanthy, mother of San Sreylai, poses with a picture of her daughter at her 100-day funeral ceremony. Sreylai’s death prompted women’s rights activists to speak out about the need to enforce laws on domestic violence.

Mom Saran, 36, poses with documents claiming that she received a land title in 2012.

A car destroyed in a violent confrontation between villagers and First Bio-Tech Agricultural (Cambodia) Co Ltd security forces on Friday in Chhouk district.

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