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Read More Cambodia: Government fails to implement UPR recommendations
ARTICLE 19 and PEN America express regret that three years since Cambodia received 198 UPR recommendations to improve its human rights record, the government has failed to meaningfully implement the vast majority of these recommendations, and shows little will or intent to follow through on its human rights commitments made to this Council.
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Read More Cambodia’s Gender Roles Stifle Freedom of Expression among Transgender Community
PHNOM PENH--Cambodian men who seek to transition to women face more discrimination within society than women who seek to become men, human rights experts have warned.
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Read More LGBTIQ Advocates Urge Same-Sex Marriage Reform
PHNOM PENH--Civil society organizations have urged the Cambodian government to legalize same-sex marriage by amending the Constitution. However, the government says this is not possible unless the LGBTIQ community is widely accepted by the public.
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Read More CHRC, Oz discuss draft rights law
Officials from the Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) and the Australian embassy held discussions about work relating to human rights in Cambodia and progress on a draft law on establishing a national human rights institution.
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Read More National human rights institution establishment one step closer
The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) has finished the first draft of the law on the establishment of the National Human Rights Institution and will continue discussions with other relevant parties soon to finalise the bill.
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Read More Concern over freedom of expression online
The executive director of the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR), Chak Sopheap, has said that the COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted restrictions in freedom of expression online.
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Read More Government lauded for reforms
UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia Rhona Smith praised the government for its efforts in addressing issues related to freedom of expression, judicial reforms and Covid-19 preventive measures.
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Read More Committee vows to strengthen human trafficking prevention
Secretary of state and permanent vice-chair of the National Committee for Counter Trafficking of Cambodia (NCCT), Chou Bun Eng, said on Thursday that despite the challenges of Covid-19, it stopped 79 cases of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
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Read More Kingdom, UN discuss rights
A year after Cambodia received 198 recommendations from UN member countries, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR-Cambodia) met with the Cambodia Human Rights Committee (CHRC) to discuss following-up on the Kingdom’s third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and the establishment of the National Human Rights Institution.
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Read More New independant human rights centre to be launched in Kingdom
Cambodian Human Rights Committee spokesman, Chin Malin, said the government is set to launch a new national independent human rights centre following recommendations from the UN.
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Read More PM issues human rights circular
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday issued a circular urging officials at all levels to work more closely with the Cambodia Human Rights Committee (CHRC) to protect human rights in Cambodia.
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Read More UN to review Kingdom on race
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Monday opened its 100th session in Geneva, Switzerland, to review the State reports of five countries, including Cambodia, on their adherence to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).
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Read More UN to review Kingdom on race
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Monday opened its 100th session in Geneva, Switzerland, to review the State reports of five countries, including Cambodia, on their adherence to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).
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Read More Cambodia rejects call by UN for open invite
Cambodia has rejected a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) recommendation submitted by five countries at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) calling on the Kingdom to issue a standing invitation to UN special procedures to visit at any time.
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Read More UN provides 176 human rights proposals
In the wrap-up session of the third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) for Cambodia in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday, 73 countries made a total of 176 recommendations to improve Cambodia’s human rights record.
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Read More Cambodia receives UN human rights guidance
Cambodia received comments from 73 UN member states that made a total of 202 recommendations for the Kingdom to improve its human rights record, in the third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Wednesday in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Read More Rights committee in UPR review
The Cambodia Human Rights Committee (CHRC) led a delegation to participate in the 32nd Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, for the third time, it said in a press release issued on Friday. It said Cambodia had already submitted documents last November for the review.
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