Announcement From Civil Society Organization Working Group On behalf of the Civil Society Organization (CSO) Working Group, we are truly appreciated your involvement in observing and catching the factual happening of the petition submission to the development partners on January 21, 2014, this morning. Despite the fact that the CSO working Group and groups of civilians were clashed during the submission in front of Embassy of United States and Embassy of France and 11 people - civilians and NGO staff - were arrested, we were managed to deliver the petition which have been endorsing by 181 NGOs to five institutions including 1) Embassy of the United States Phnom Penh 2) Embassy of the United Kingdom 3) Embassy of France 4) UNICEF Cambodia and 5) Amnesty International. Additionally, the 11 arrested people were released on the same day in the afternoon. On the word of the CSO Working Group, we would like inform you that we will instigate our mission in submitting the petitions to the Development Partners once again starting from January 23 and continue to January 24, 27 and 28. The schedule on January 23 is as below while the schedules for the following days will be later informed: a. German Embassy Phnom Penh
8:30am
b. Royal Embassy of the Kingdom of Cambodia
9:00am
c. Embassy of South Korean
9:30am
d. Embassy of Australian
10:00am
e. Royal Thai Embassy
10:30am
f.
11:00am
Embassy of the Union of Myanmar
As stated by the schedule, we are optimism that there is a load of media involvement, still, during our event to capture the situation as the witness and for evidence to Cambodian people and to the world.
Media Contact: 1. Thida Khus, Executive Director of Silaka, 012 838 464, thidak@silaka.org 2. Sia Phearum, Director of Housing Rights Task Force, 012 852325, sd@hrtfcambodia.org 3. Nay Vanda, Adhoc’s deputy head of human rights monitoring and legal aid section, 012530251, nayvandaadhoc@yahoo.com 4. Lyda Ngin, Media and Communications Coordinator of The NGO Forum on Cambodia, 012292936; lyda@ngoforum.org.kh 5. Mi Nac (Mr), Referral and Advisory Specialist of Cooperation Committee for Cambodia, 012 475 441, nac.mi@ccc-cambodia.org