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7 Feb 2022

Autor:
Keat Soriththeavy & Ananth Baliga, VOD

Cambodia: As govt. use COVID-19 measures to halt union's strike, global unions show solidarity and support via protests and campaigns overseas

"Health Order Shuts Down NagaWorld Rallies, Global Unions Show Support", 7 February 2022

Global unions and federations expressed their support and protested the arrest and termination of NagaWorld workers ..., as daily rallies came to a halt after authorities ordered all workers to isolate for seven days...

Police arrested three striking workers as they were leaving the testing site at Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich island, and the court has issued warrants for four others who are yet to be taken into custody...

As the fate of the strike remains uncertain, international federations and unions expressed solidarity with the NagaWorld union, with actions planned in at least 11 countries, according to local rights group Central.

In Australia, around 15 people from three unions held banners and flags outside the Cambodian Embassy in Canberra, while around 30 Indonesian unionists protested outside the embassy in Jakarta...

Protests were also planned in the U.K., France, Switzerland and the U.S. The global activity centered around a campaign to release the jailed workers, reinstate the terminated workers and ...

Nina Lau, a program coordinator at the Asia Monitor Resource Centre in Hong Kong, said the group had organized actions of support outside the Cambodian embassies in South Korea and Thailand, while also coordinating a photo campaign in Bangladesh...

In Phnom Penh, local rights group representatives delivered an open letter to the Ministry of Interior, after which they walked to the National Assembly to submit the same document to parliamentarians.

The letter, signed by 133 individuals, groups and communities, decried what they called an abuse of power by Cambodian authorities in the arrest of LRSU members, which they said could set a “dangerous precedent.”...

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