Clothilde Le Coz
Clothilde Le Coz is an independent journalist and writer based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, who specializes in social, political and human-rights issues. She is a media development consultant for the Cambodian Center for Independent Media and formerly worked as the Washington D.C. director for Reporters Without Borders. She has an M.A. in international relations and journalism and a B.A. in political science, both from SciencesPo in Grenoble, France. She also has a bachelor in philosophy from the Sorbonne.
- Clothilde Le Coz
- • February 29, 2016
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PHNOM PENH — Acid is increasingly becoming a personal weapon of choice, especially against women. In the last 15 years, it has been estimated that more than 3,200 acid-throwing attacks were recorded in countries as varied as Bangladesh, Britain, Colombia, Pakistan and…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Women
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- Clothilde Le Coz
- • October 11, 2015
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PHNOM PENH — Accused of organizing an “insurrection” last year, nearly a dozen Parliament ministers from the political opposition were sentenced to prison terms from 7 to 20 years by a Phnom Penh court this summer. The charge stemmed…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights
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- Clothilde Le Coz
- • April 21, 2015
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PHNOM PENH — A controversial $40 million deal signed between the Australian and Cambodian governments last September to resettle about 1,000 refugees from detention centers on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru to Cambodia was the first time…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Myanmar, Refugees, UN Agencies
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- Clothilde Le Coz
- • December 7, 2014
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PHNOM PENH — Dueling depictions of Somaly Mam, the Cambodian activist who has campaigned against sex trafficking in her country and elsewhere, have splashed across large media outlets in the last six months. Mam, who contends she was a…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Women
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- Clothilde Le Coz
- • June 11, 2014
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Until now, sexual violence against ethnic minorities during the Khmer Rouge era in this country went largely ignored. Now for the first time, the Cambodian Defenders Project, one of the oldest legal aid organizations here,…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, International Justice, Women
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- Clothilde Le Coz
- • December 4, 2013
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PHNOM PENH — Kunthear Laut, a 33-year-old Cambodian woman, is a child of marital rape and a victim of two rapes as well as three attempts and at least five years of incest from her uncle. “AÂ woman has…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, Women
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