Legal Aid of Cambodia (LAC) is a non-governmental, independent, Khmer-administered, non-profit and non-political organization founded in 1995. LAC’s mission is to provide free, quality legal services to and advocate for Cambodia’s poor in both criminal and civil cases. LAC is one of the few non-governmental legal aid organizations in Cambodia to maintain a significant, permanent presence in rural Cambodia where 80% of the population resides. LAC maintains offices in ten different locations. The head office in Phnom Penh also includes three specialized programs: the Child Justice Program, the Land Law Program, and the Women’s Justice Program. LAC is supported by donors from the international community based inside and outside of the country. The two largest donors are Oxfam Novib and the Open Society Institute.
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Phnom Penh Post: B’bang Villagers Freed
The Battambang provincial court on Wednesday announced its decision to drop five-year-old trespassing charges against six villagers involved in a long-running land dispute.
But one of the men, community representative Chem Keo, remained behind bars awaiting a verdict from the Appeal Court on related charges. More…
LAC Annual Report 2008 now available
An excerpt from the report details some of LAC’s activities for the last year:
192 cases received a fair and just trial with the 83 lost cases. 63 cases were omitted from the record of the courts due to the process of the cases were too long and the courts and lawyers could not find the clients. The fair and just trial was defined as following: More…
Another Land Rights Abuse: Battambang Villager Illegally Sentenced to One Year in Prison
Tuesday, October 6, 2009Battambang—The Court of Appeal sentenced Battambang villager Chim Keo to a term of one year in prison for trespassing today, the latest abuse in the [...]
Land Dispute Cases in Battambang Province
Thursday, February 28, 2008The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), a coalition of 23 NGO members, is very concerned about the long-lasting and complicated land dispute which has [...]
Joint Press Statement
Thursday, June 28, 2007Community Legal Education Center (CLEC) and Legal Aid of Cambodia (LAC) today express their strong support for their lawyers working on the Kong Yu/Keat Kolney [...]