Organized by Transparency International (T.I.) Cambodia, the only two parties not to attend the event were the ruling CPP and smaller Cambodian Nationality Party.
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I was saddened yesterday to read in the Cambodia Daily newspaper of yet another case of allegations made against someone trying to help the poor and vulnerable.
It is so easy to make allegations and where they are untrue the lives of many are destroyed in an instance. In Cambodia there is a melting pot of reasons why such allegations can come about from a disgruntled employee to over zealous child protection organisations. It’s just so easy to make the allegation which sets in train a downward cascade of destruction. Where false allegations are made one has to ask who has the power and who is the abuser?
No doubt by this time most, if not all, the support for Angkor Orphan and Education Organization (AOEO) will have dissipated in a cloud of mistrust and misinformation leaving the future of the staff and children in the balance. Think of the stress they have been going through.
The director of a Siem Reap orphanage who was arrested in March for allegedly abusing two girls under his care has been released after one of the girls recanted her statement, officials said Monday.
Morn Savuth, director of Siem Reap City’s Angkor Orphan and Education Organization (AOEO), was released from provincial prison last Friday and immediately returned to his position at the orphanage where there are about 20 children aged 5- to 18-years-old—including one of his alleged victims—under his care.
“We did not find any concrete evidence [of sexual abuse] and one of the girls also recanted her statements from March that accused the suspect,” provincial Judge Kay Sao said Monday in defense of his decision to release the orphanage director.
……………… The Siem Reap Provincial Court initially charged Mr. Savuth with sexual abuse in the case of the elder girl, but not the younger. Judge Sao added that when he questioned the victim late last month, the 12-year-old told him that an unidentified man working at AOEO had forced her to lie about the alleged rape.
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"Such a decision starkly contradicts the spirit of a healthy democratic process."
On Wednesday, June 5, 2013, the 28 lawmakers belonging to Cambodia's two only opposition parties were told they were no longer valid members of parliament by a permanent parliamentary committee made up of ruling party CPP members.
The PE teacher has not worked for more than two years because the allegation remained on his record even though police investigated and took no action.
One Cumbria police officer later told the Criminal Records Officer he was a “lech” and her “gut feeling” was he should not work with children.
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The NSPCC has produced 112 pages of ‘updated guidance’ for how to organise ‘safe’ sports events for children.
………. One can only conclude that ‘safeguarding responsibilities’ for kids sports events are not about sports events, or safety, or children, but about the imposition of rules on everyday life – the main result of which is to sow mistrust and fragment relations between the generations.
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R (on the application of Sandiford) v Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs 168 (Admin) - read judgment
On 22 April 2013 the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in refusing to pay for a lawyer to assist Lindsay Sandiford as she faces the death penalty for drug offences in Indonesia. Last Wednesday, they handed down the reasons for their decision.
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