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Tel bureau/Office : 855 63 963 265
posted by Jinja @ 3:51 PM
Tonite we are screening the exciting German film CLOUD NINE – only in German
language (TUE, 28/07, 7 PM).
We invite our English speaking audience for our following events
* WED, 29/07, 7 PM: KIDS BEHIND THE CAMERA – SHORT FILMS AND TALKS WITH
YOUNG
CAMBODIAN REPORTERS FROM THE MEDIA NGO "SCY"
* THUR, 30/07, 7 PM: "PAY OR DIE?" – DISCUSSING CAMBODIA'S NEW HEALTH
REFORMS WITH
THE "MESSENGER BAND" AND MEMBERS OF THE GRASSROOTS NGO "WOMYN'S AGENDA FOR
CHANGE"
* FRI, 31/07, 7 PM: "KEEP THE RIVER ON YOUR RIGHT" – US DOCUMENTARY ABOUT
ART,
HOMOSEXUALITY AND CANNIBALISM
More infos below.
Hope to see you @ Meta House,
Best, Nico/Lydia & the team
*
WED, 29/07, 7 PM
KIDS BEHIND THE CAMERA – KHMER "YOUTH TODAY" SPEAKS OUT
"Support Children and Young People" (SCY) is the first NGO in Cambodia
that is
giving Cambodian kids the opportunity to participate in media advocacy.
SCY has
established the "YOUTH TODAY" program with support of UNICEF, which is a
TV magazine
aiming to provide children and young people in Cambodia with opportunities
to voice
their concerns and speak about their interests. Cambodian private
broadcaster CTN
airs the innovative format every Sunday morning. Tonight at Meta House
young Khmer
reporters will stay up late to present a selection of their works, which
focus on a
wide range ob subjects – from climate change to break-dance (Q&A).
THUR, 30/07, 7 PM
"PAY OR DIE?" – DISCUSSING CAMBODIA'S NEW HEALTH REFORMS
By the end of 2009, four public hospitals in Phnom Penh will become
autonomous. The
Cambodian grassroots NGO "Women's Agenda for Change" (WAC) fears that this
step will
not improve health conditions for Cambodians, but will limit the
accessibility of
services. WAC has asked META HOUSE to produce the advocacy film "PAY OR
DIE?, that
we will screen tonight for the first time – together with other health
documentaries
by Khmer directors such as Om Kimsour. Filmmakers, interview partners and
health
experts are invited for a Q&A after the screening. WAC's "Messenger Band"
will
contribute a capella songs about the consequences of privatisation.
FRI, 31/07, 7 PM
THAT'S UNBELIEVABLE: KEEP THE CANNIBALS ON YOUR RIGHT
Don't miss this doc! In 1955, 34-year-old gay Jewish painter Tobias
Schneebaum, who
had grown up in Brooklyn landed a Fulbright scholarship and trekked into the
Peruvian Amazon with his sketchpad and camera. Schneebaum formed an
intimate bond
with the members of one tribe whose males were physically intimate but
also attacked
another village, killed most of its inhabitants, and cooked and ate parts
of them.
His 1969 memoir "Keep the River On Your Right" became a cult classic.
Brother and
sister filmmakers David and Laurie Gwen Shapiro convinced him to return to
that
momentous place in 1999, at the age of 78. (2000, 94 min
META HOUSE
Street 264, #6 - Sangkat Chaktomuk, Khan Daun Penh,
Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia
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Homepage: www.meta-house.com
email: mesterharm@gmx.net
posted by Jinja @ 12:28 PM
posted by Jinja @ 1:42 PM
SUNDAYS starting on July 12th from 4-5 pm
Schedule:
July 19th – Dr. Lilli Sisombat - Project Manager for the
International Finance Corporation's Coordinating Bureau of the
Government-Private Sector Forum.
July 26th – Lim Solinn – Oxfam America extractive industry
August 2nd – Chea Veasna – Co-founder Cambodia Arts and
Scholarship Foundation and Associate Director of the Harpswell
Foundation
We are sorry to announce that the public event with HE Carol Rodley,
scheduled for August 9th, has been cancelled.
This weekend join us for a talk with Dr. Lilli Sisombat
Dr Lilli Sisombat is project manager for the International Finance
Corporation's Coordinating Bureau of the Government-Private Sector
Forum. Before taking on this role, she was managing a business
management training program also at IFC in Cambodia, Lao PDR and
China. She joined IFC in 2001. Lilli holds a masters degree in
business management and a PhD in sociology (both from France). Before
joining IFC, Lilli worked in marketing for multi-national companies in
Europe, and then in the early 1990s, returned to live and work in Lao
PDR, her native country, where she ran a research company. She is the
proud mother of three young artists who are 18, 12 and 9 years old.
posted by Jinja @ 5:05 PM
posted by Jinja @ 10:45 AM
US Healthcare Reform is one of the top policy agenda items of the current US
Administration. Different systems and policies are currently being
discussed and
debated in the US Congress and Senate. Any proposed changes to the US
Healthcare
system may have significant implications for all Americans, including
those living
overseas.
President Obama wants our participation to make healthcare reform a reality.
Democrats Abroad can help channel our input into the US Heathcare Reform
debate so
the voices of Americans living overseas are listened to and taken into
account.
Democrats Abroad Cambodia is providing the opportunity for interested
Americans
living overseas to come together to learn more about the proposed US
Healthcare
Reform policies and to gather our suggestions and recommendations.
You are warmly invited to:
Townhall Meeting:
U.S. Health Care Reform: Information and Discussion
American Citizens Abroad
Thursday July 16th, 2009, 6:30PM
FCC 363 Sisowath Quay
We hope to see you there.
Sincerely,
Warm Regards,
Wayne Weightman, Chair, Democrats Abroad Cambodia
Tel: 012949421; Email: wayne_weightman@yahoo.com
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posted by Jinja @ 4:43 PM
PRESS RELEASE
For over a year, an unauthorized group of individuals, posing as members of The Center for Social Development’s (CSD) Board of Directors, have been harassing CSD. They cast doubt on CSD’s integrity and good public image by dragging CSD’s name through the dirt, and caused immeasurable damages by precipitating losses in donor funding, losses in CSD’s reputation, and disruptions of day-to-day operations.
For a long time, CSD has attempted to privately resolve this dispute and chosen to respond minimally to their persistent harassments. Our hope was for these individuals to reconcile with CSD, or voluntarily withdraw from this embarrassing dispute—especially considering the damage they were causing to an NGO that it was once their mission to protect.
Recent events, however, have made it clear that there will be no reconciliation with these individuals, and that they will not stop harassing CSD. For us at CSD, it means that the time for delicacy and diplomacy is over; these individuals’ tactics no longer afford us the luxury of these options—the only option that now remains is for CSD is to stand up and fight for our legitimate rights.
On 13th February 2008, Mr. Vi HOUI, claiming to be the president of the CSD Board of Directors, filed an application for preventive injunction. He accused Ms. SENG Theary of continuing her work as Executive Director (ED) in violation of a “Board decision” to terminate her from that position. His suit asked for preservative relief in the form of an injunction, which would remove Ms. SENG from her position as ED and instate Mr. HOUI as Acting ED.
Many will recall that this so-called “Board decision” to terminate Ms. SENG (made on 20th May 2008) lacked legal force for many reasons—the most straightforward one being that the decision was made without a quorum (of at least 3 board members), as CSD’s Constitution required for the Board to exercise the power of staff dismissal. For those unfamiliar with our history, CSD has attached a more comprehensive explanation of all the reasons why this termination was not valid according to CSD’s Constitution.
In order to show that this matter is incontrovertible, however, we now prefer to reference the opinion of the Ministry of Interior—the authority which governs NGOs. CSD is able to do so because Mr. HOUI in fact filed a complaint with identical accusations with the Ministry of Interior in August 2008. After investigating the matter for four months, and twice offering Mr. HOUI an opportunity to justify his complaint (which he declined), the Ministry of Interior issued a mandate on 27th October 2008 concluding that Mr. HOUI’s complaint should be dismissed:
The Department of Political Affairs has conducted research over the documents submitted by the complainant [Mr. HOUI], and discovered that these documents forged the membership of one out of the three signatory members of the Board of Directors . . .
(and)
The contract of Theary Seng, and Articles 6 and 7 of the Statutes of the Center for Social Development’s 2005 Constitution, prove that the complaint of Mr. Vi Houi cannot be legitimate nor admitted. Thus the Department of Political Affairs will not proceed with this baseless claim.
(Full document attached)
Given this history, CSD finds it baffling that Mr. HOUI brought this lawsuit as the “President of the Board of Directors”, especially because on 13th May 2008—after almost a year without a transparent, accountable, and functioning Board—the Ministry of Interior officially recognized (1) Ms. SENG as the ED of CSD, (2) an amended CSD Constitution, and (3) a functioning, 11-member Board of Directors—which did not include Mr. HOUI as a member (full document attached). Thus, after May 13th 2008, Mr. HOUI completely ceased to be a legitimate member of CSD’s Board—and also ceased to have any of the legal rights associated with such membership, meaning he lacks any legal standing to bring this complaint before the court.
CSD was even more taken aback and bewildered when we were informed that, not only was the application not dismissed on account of Mr. HOUI’s lack of standing, but on 16 June 2009, the Municipal Court actually granted Mr. HOUI a temporary injunction against Ms. SENG.
Taking into account the current laws, it is clear that the order was granted in error; therefore, CSD took immediate steps to protect our self and our rights by filing an appeal against the injunctive order.
In our minds, this whole process raises a very grave concern: If such a baseless claim can persist as long as it has, and if a few individuals are able to abuse the legal system and abuse process to harass and defame a large public institution, which largely specializes in law, how can we expect average, individual citizens to find protection and justice within this system?
________________
Contact:
Mr. IM Sophea, Deputy Executive Director, Tel: 016.888.552, e-mail: sopheaim@csdcambodia.org
Mr. ANG Udom, CSD’s Attorney/legitimate Board Member, Tel: 012.776.176,
e-mail: udomlaw@online.com.kh
Mr. Barry Van ROOYEN, CSD’s Legal Advisor, Tel: 089 275 409,
e-mail: barryvanrooyen@rocketmail.com
Best regards,
P.S. We invite you to learn more of our and citizens' monitoring activities of the national COURTS and of the ECCC at www.csdcambodia.org “Legal Unit” and their impact at “CSD in the News”.
____________________________________
The Center for Social Development (CSD)
No. 19, Street 57, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
P.O. Box 1346
Tel: (855) 23-364-735
Fax: (855) 23-364-736
http://www.blogger.com/info@csdcambodia.org
http://www.csdcambodia.org/
posted by Jinja @ 11:06 PM
posted by Jinja @ 8:25 AM
Tonight, THUR, 09/07, 7 PM we invite you for a special event:
"JOOP!" is the first "spoken word/music/film" performance @ META ever.
"JOOP" means "meeting" in Khmer. 3 Australian artists meet Cambodian star
musician
Ouch Savy – the most acclaimed female Chapai player!
Be prepared for a night of voice, sound and image – from traditional
poetry to Khmer
Hip Hop: Australian musician and filmmaker Julien Poulson has just
returned from
Turkey, where he was shooting a documentary about transgender people. Now
he is
putting together a film about the small but vibrant Phnom Penh music
scene, together
with his friend and colleague Justin Foster.
Tonight they will show excerpts from their film THE RIVER FLOWS BACKWARDS.
Australian writer Laura Jean McKay explores texts from and about Cambodia,
accompanied by female chapei player Ouch Savy. Celebrating music, film and
spoken
word in Cambodia today, curated by Asialink residents…
Please be our guest tonight or for the following events:
* FRI, 10/07, 7 PM
"BELONGING" & "NEW YEAR'S BABY": TWO FEMALE VIEWPOINTS
Women from the Khmer diaspora explore their roots in two compelling
documentaries.
* SAT, 11/07, 7 PM
CAMBODIA'S FIRST FILM ABOUT LESBIAN LOVE: "WHO AM I ?"
Cambodia's first ever movie featuring a taboo lesbian love story has been a
surprising hit in Phnom Penh theatres. Cambodian female director Phoan
Phuong Bopha
will be present at the screening...
* SUN, 12/07, 7 PM
WHAT'S RIGHT? WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTRE'S "SCALES OF JUSTICE"
TWMC's eight-part-series SCALES OF JUSTICE (2008) – which stars Tep
Rindaro, one of
the countries best-known actors – is designed to educate viewers about the
court
system in an entertaining way. Filmmakers will be present. (Q&A)
META HOUSE
Street 264, #6 - Sangkat Chaktomuk, Khan Daun Penh,
Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia
Fixed +855- (0)23 – 224 140, Mobil +855- (0) 12- 607 465
Homepage: www.meta-house.com
email: mesterharm@gmx.net
posted by Jinja @ 11:05 AM
posted by Jinja @ 11:30 AM
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