CCHR Press Release - CCHR's Sithi.org wins 2013 Communications for Social Change Award

CCHR PRESS RELEASE – Phnom Penh, 9 April 2013

CCHR’s Sithi.org wins 2013 Communications for Social Change Award

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) is proud to announce that CCHR’s human rights web-portal www.sithi.org (the “Sithi Portal”) has won the 2013 Communications for Social Change Award awarded by the Centre for Communication and Social Change at the School of Journalism and Communication, within the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. The 2013 Communications for Social Change Award has been granted in recognition of the role that the Sithi Portal has played in highlighting violations of human rights in Cambodia and in enhancing access to important information related to human rights.

The purpose of the Sithi Portal is to encourage civil society organizations and others working on human rights in Cambodia to develop collaborative and decentralized approaches to monitoring, documentation and information-sharing as a basis for more detailed research and analysis and more sophisticated evidence-based dialogue and advocacy.  The Sithi Portal – and the wider Sithi Project – aim to capitalize on the growth and increasing availability of the internet in Cambodia to develop and capitalize on new tools and methods to conduct human rights work.

CCHR President Ou Virak comments:

“We are deeply honored to accept the 2013 Communications for Social Change Award. Over the past year, Cambodia has seen a worrying rise in human rights violations, especially with regards to freedom of expression. In this context, we have strived to adopt new and innovative ways to effect human rights change and to achieve our vision of a non-violent Cambodia in which people enjoy their fundamental human rights, are treated equally, empowered to participate in democracy, and share the benefits of Cambodia’s development. We strongly believe that receiving the Communications for Social Change Award will contribute to furthering our efforts in this regard.”

For more information, please contact Ou Virak via telephone at  +855 (0) 1240 4051  or e-mail at ouvirak@cchrcambodia.org or Consultant Juliette Rousselot via telephone at  +855 (0) 15 35 06 20  or e-mail at julietterousselot@cchrcambodia.org.

 

Please also find this Press Release attached in PDF format in both Khmer and English.

Kind regards,

CCHR