<p>Cambodian workers working in Thailand have complained that they are required by their employers to file multiple documents in order to be allowed to work legally. Beside the additional bureaucracy, document handling costs imposed by agencies have largely overwhelmed their daily wages.</p>

<p>He worked for the current Bangkok governor and was photographed with an ousted Thai premier and a current Phnom Penh deputy governor. Missing since 2020, Wanchalearm Satsaksit also helped other Thai dissidents flee to Cambodia. But his associates have sought to erase all ties.</p>

<p>Cambodian authorities detained five journalists and four activists after addressing deforestation in a vast Phnom Tamao forest, stated the civil society organisation, Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO).</p>

<p>On 2 June, Sitanan Satsaksit, the sister of Wanchalearm Satsaksit and legal advisors sought an audience with the Cambodian ambassador to Thailand to request an update on an investigation into the political refugee&rsquo;s abduction in Phnom Penh on 4 June 2020.&nbsp; Their request was denied before they could enter the Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok.</p>

<p>Sitanun Satsaksit, sister of missing activist in exile Wanchalearm Satsaksit, submitted to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR) on Monday (4 April) a statement calling for the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) to address Cambodia&rsquo;s failure to investigate Wanchalearm&rsquo;s disappearance.</p>

<p>See inside the dark abyss of an online business in Cambodia&rsquo;s Sihanoukville where over 20 Thais were tricked into leaving home for a promising salary, only to find themselves forced to work in an online fraud scheme, a growing trend in illegal work that shades into human trafficking and modern day slavery in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic.</p>

<p>On 21 January 2022, as&nbsp;the trial of Kem Sokha, leader of the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) resumed after a two year delay, Southeast Asian parliamentarians have reiterated their call for Cambodian authorities to immediately and unconditionally drop the treason charges against him.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Under the Chairmanship of Cambodia in 2022, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must meaningfully address the regressive human rights crisis in the region, including the rapidly deteriorating situation in Myanmar, said rights groups at a webinar yesterday (2 December).</p>

<p>On 9 November 2021,&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hrw.org/thailand&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636783943474000&amp;usg=AOvVaw04WIoAttdszBP7ef0DOa6O" href="https://www.hrw.org/thailand" target="_blank">Thai</a>&nbsp;immigration officials forcibly returned two Cambodian refugees, putting them at risk of unfair trials in&nbsp;<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hrw.org/asia/cambodia&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636783943474000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0OnxEwfQpJO5oqA39UpQuL" href="https://www.hrw.org/asia/cambodia" target="_blank">Cambodia</a>, said Human Rights Watch.</p>

<p>CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance, calls on the Cambodian authorities to drop the baseless charges against trade union activist and human rights defender&nbsp;Rong Chhun and to release him immediately and unconditionally.</p>

<p>A year has passed since the disappearance of Thai human rights activist, Wanchalearm Satsaksit. Witnesses report that he was forcibly abducted from a street near his home in Phnom Penh, where he had been living in self-imposed exile. Despite considerable public interest in the case, the investigation has made little headway.</p>