Ouk Chhayavy
Ouk Chhayavy | |
|---|---|
| President of the Cambodia Independent Teachers' Association | |
| Assumed office 2016 | |
| Vice President of the Cambodia Independent Teachers' Association | |
| In office 2013–2016 | |
Ouk Chhayavy is the current president of the Cambodia Independent Teachers' Association (CITA), an office which she has held since 2016.[1]
Biography
[edit]Ouk Chhayavy started working as a teacher in 1994.[2]
In 2000, she joined CITA as deputy president in Kandal Province. In 2013, she became the trade union's vice president. In 2016, she became CITA's president.[1]
On August 10, 2020, Ouk was thrown off her motorcycle by unknown attackers in Kandal Province following a visit to the imprisoned Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions. She required stitches afterwards and said she had been followed by strangers since the start of the campaign to release Rong Chhun, which she led.[3] The attack was condemned by the ITUC.[4] According to a report delivered to the OHCHR, neighbours later observed that an unknown man on a motorbike and an assault rifle slung over his shoulder frequently visited her home.[5]
Ouk currently works as a high school teacher. She has two children.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Mrs. Ouk Chhayavy". Cambodian Center for Human Rights.
- ^ Ven Someth (2020-08-17). "អ្នកស្រី អ៊ុក ឆាយាវី..." Radio Free Asia.
- ^ Eugene Whong (2020-08-10). "Cambodian Teachers' Activist Attacked in Alleged Fake Traffic Accident". Radio Free Asia.
- ^ "ITUC Calls on Cambodia to Stop Repressing Unions and Release Detained Union Leaders" (Press release). ITUC. 2020-08-25. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
- ^ Mandates of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia; the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression; the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders; and the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls (Report). OCHCR. 2020-11-10. p. 3.
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