Support Local Peacemaking Groups
Some possibilities include:
Global Forest Watch www.globalforestwatch.org
DOVE www.missiondovecambodia.org
Peace Bridges Organization www.peacebridges.net
Prey Lang Community Network www.preylang.net
Community Tree Planting:
www.globalgiving.org/projects/equip-cambodians-with-tech-to-protect-their-forest
Mother Nature Cambodia www.mothernaturecambodia.org
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Time to End GSP Trade Preferences?
January 2022 The U.S. embassy in Phnom Penh recently expressed concern about police action against workers protesting layoffs at Naga World casino after a union leader was taken away in the latest series of detentions. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-says-troubled-by-cambodian-action-against-striking-casino-workers-2022-01-04/
Is it time for the USA to end GSP trade preferences with a country the regularly violates human rights and labor rights?
Cambodia's GSP (trade preferences) expired in December 2021. By far, Cambodia exports more goods to the USA than any other country--about $5 billion of exports in 2020. Their trade preferences expired in December 2021. Maybe it is time to stop renewing these until some a substantial record of improvements in human and labor rights is demonstrated!!
TAKE ACTION NOW: Write, phone, and email Secretary Blinken and Ambassador Murphy to let them hear your voice.
Secretary Anthony J. Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, Department of State, Harry S. Truman Building, 2201 C Street, NW, Washington, DC 20520
W. Patrick Murphy, U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh, #1, Street 96, Sangkat Wat Phnom, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
$21 Million Greening Prey Lang Project Diverted
Local leaders of Prey Lang have stated recorded over and over how the US AID funded project "Greening Prey Lang" was actually destroying the forest--not conserving it as it claimed. There was simply no enforcement of the Law made to protect the Sanctuary part of the forest. According to the Prey Lang Community, illegal logging continues by big companies, but US AID funds are no longer applied to Prey Lang.
Write the U.S. Secretary of State, and U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia. and thank them for:
>> diverting these funds to other projects.
>> respecting the UN Indigenous Rights Act
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Secretary Anthony J. Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, Department of State, Harry S. Truman Building, 2201 C Street, NW, Washington, DC 20520 Tel: (877) 322-5227
W. Patrick Murphy, U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia, U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh, #1, Street 96, Sangkat Wat Phnom, Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tel: (855-23) 728-000
Study the Magnitsky Act & how it can be used in your country
The Magnitsky Act can be an effective tool to use within your own country of residence to address corruption by Cambodians engaged in business abroad and to improve human rights and freedom of speech in Cambodia.
For more details & examples see:
"The Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act."
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10576
Tom Firestone & Kerry Contini. "The Global Magnitsky Act." Criminal Law Forum (2018) 29: 617-628.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10609-018-9353-z
Support International Petitions. Stay tuned for our new campaigns in 2022.
An easy way to start international petitions or campaign to open the space for more local peacebuilding is the website: www.change.org
It's free and it's easy. Petitions can be created for some of the issues mentioned in this website. Send us new petitions you have started and we will share on this website and Facebook.
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