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21 March 2025

Submitting a petition to the National Bank of Cambodia is one way for people to seek justice when they face abuses related to loans.

This video is the story of an Indigenous borrower from the Kachok community who is struggling with their debt and facing pressure from microfinance institutions to repay. This has had impacts on the identity of their Indigenous community. The borrower decided to submit a request to the National Bank of Cambodia for intervention in this case, hoping to ensure that their children do not have to leave school to work or they do not have to take out informal loans to repay their debt.

All borrowers have the right to file complaints with the National Bank of Cambodia.

14 March 2025

One way for people to seek justice when they are facing abuses related to their microfinance loans is to submit a request to the National Bank of Cambodia.

This video is a case of borrowers who made such a request. The borrowers still intend to repay their debt, but requested the National Bank's intervention to compel their lender to resolve their case and respect their human rights, and ensure they do not need to sell their land or remove their children from school.

All borrowers have the right​ ​to submit complaints to the National Bank of Cambodia.

14 February 2025

Please remember that no one has the right to pressure or force you to sell your land or house to pay off debts outside of the court system.

9 October 2024

To mark World Habitat Day, listen to the families affected by ongoing evictions around the Angkor Wat temple complex.

Did you know that thousands of families are impacted by the ongoing relocation plans?

26 September 2024

If you are having trouble repaying, what can you do?

You can request a loan restructuring from the institution where you borrowed money.

Remember that no one has the right to pressure or force you to sell land or a house to pay off debts out of court.

1 June 2024

We stand strong with the thousands of children and minors across Cambodia who are locked up in overcrowded and under-resourced prisons. We call on the relevant authorities to stop the excessive detention of children and minors in prison, and to immediately and consistently use alternatives to detention before resorting to imprisonment.

1 May 2024

We stand strong with workers in Cambodia and across the world, and join them in the fight for better working conditions, fair contracts and wages, and respect and dignity for all kinds of labour.

To mark International Labour Day 2024, LICADHO, partner civil society groups and unions are releasing a video to highlight the achievement and challenges faced by the workers’ rights movement in Cambodia, and to acknowledge the contributions and sacrifices of labour activists and unionists, such as Chea Vichea.

We stand together with Cambodian unions in the ongoing fight for justice and labour rights.

7 March 2024

Join us to stop violence, discrimination and harassment against women, human rights defenders, and those who love others of the same gender!

In celebration of International Women's Day 2024, watch this video inspired by the achievements of women across Cambodia in their pursuit of respect for human rights.

6 March 2024

29 November 2023

Mak Kak, a member of the Association of Domestic Workers (ADW), speaks out against the violence and lack of legal protections that impact domestic workers’ freedoms and wellbeing.

29 November 2023

Sovann Vary, a tuk tuk driver as well as a district leader and chief of the women’s committee with the Independent Democratic Association of Informal Economy (IDEA), fights for the rights of informal workers and their access to basic social protections.

29 November 2023

Ouk Chhayavy, president of the Cambodian Independent Teachers' Association (CITA), continues speaking out for teachers' freedoms despite facing death threats and violence.

29 November 2023

Sok Sreyleap, campaign officer with Women’s Network for Unity (WNU), fights to end the discrimination, violence and abuse faced by entertainment and sex workers.

30 August 2023

Today, LICADHO is introducing a mechanism for all Cambodians who wish to file a complaint about aggressive and predatory MFIs/banks.

Complaints can be made on behalf of anyone who has experienced harms and abuses in the microfinance sector. Such abuses might include coerced land sales, child labour, unwanted migration, hunger, threats and intimidation, and other harms.

3 January 2023

On 9 January 2023, officers from the Phnom Penh Police Commissariat informed LICADHO’s operations director during an interview that refusing to remove the music video titled “Workers’ Blood” from social media and the organisation’s website would result in further legal action by authorities.

To avoid further legal action, LICADHO removed the music video from Facebook last night and from the website today. A censored page remains in its place.

27 December 2022

LICADHO was established in 1992 to monitor the national election organised by the United Nations in 1993. It later became a human rights watchdog. After 30 years of promoting and defending human rights, LICADHO still stands with people to fight against human rights abuses and to pursue social justice.

13 December 2022

29 November 2022

Kleang Soben, general secretary of the Labor Rights Supported Union of Khmer Employees of NagaWorld (LRSU), remains committed to defending casino workers' rights even after she was laid off and later imprisoned for over two months when the union began striking.

27 November 2022

Sarin Sovanny, a worker organiser in Kampong Speu with the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU), was laid off due to her activism yet remains at the vanguard of the fight for factory workers’ rights.

5 October 2022

Lakes and wetlands surrounding Cambodia’s capital are home to thousands of people and essential for livelihoods, flood protection and wastewater treatment. Their destruction for development projects is causing evictions, loss of income and food insecurity, and leaving Phnom Penh exposed to worsening flooding.