Cambodia has around 200 government-provided land concessions, totally 2 million hectares.
There are six million people in the Asia Pacific living with HIV, about 15 percent of the world total.
Some of Wednesday’s female protesters tore off their shirts as they faced off with riot police carrying batons and shields.
Nearly 80 land cases involved government land concessions that affected more than 30,000 families.
Overcoming such trauma is not easy and going back into the past does not help either, Sam Keo said.
Nearly 400 families were forcibly evicted from the Borei Keila site this month.
In 2002, as many as 13 percent of Cambodian blood donors tested positive for the antigen of the Hepatitis-B virus.
HRW also detailed what it views as severe violations of human rights in nations including Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam.
Escapees climbed over the walls or jumped the metal gates of the Prey Speu Social Affairs Center Wednesday in full view of observers.
The demonstrators were seized Wednesday, where they had demanded the courts release eight representatives arrested earlier this month.
An estimated 20,000 Cambodians are trafficked throughout the region each year.
The site, at Phnom Bath mountain, is 50 kilometers outside the capital and lacks clean water, electricity, and health care facilities.
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