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Trade Union Leader Summoned to Appear at Kandal Provincial Court on Charges of Incitement and Defamation
Mr.Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodia Confederation of Unions, is prominent advovate of labour rights and has lead many disenfranchised works in demonstrations and campaigns to demand fair employment standards and working conditions. Mr.Rong Chhun’s legal team requested that the court postpone the hearing until a later date. the court agreed and the new date for the case was set for 9am, Thursday, September 27th, 2012...
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21st HRC Regular Session – Oral Statement Item 10: Technical Assistance and Capacity Building – Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia, Mr. Surya Subedi
Thank you, Madam President. FORUM-ASIA and its member organisations in Cambodia, the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) and the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), appreciate the Special Rapporteur’s reports, particularly the addendum on the situation of economic and other land concessions (A/HRC/21/63/Add.1), which highlights comprehensively the serious and widespread violations of human rights in the country – forcible confiscation of land, destruction of homes and property, as well as physical aggression and intimidation, including the use of firearms against individuals and communities. We are extremely disturbed that these chronic violations persist with impunity and stress that the situation has seen no alleviation with all the technical assistance and capacity building offered by this Council and the OHCHR.
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Trade Union Leader Summoned to Appear at Kandal Provincial Court on Charges of Incitement and Defamation
Mr.Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodia Confederation of Unions, is prominent advovate of labour rights and has lead many disenfranchised works in demonstrations and campaigns to demand fair employment standards and working conditions. Mr.Rong Chhun’s legal team requested that the court postpone the hearing until a later date. the court agreed and the new date for the case was set for 9am, Thursday, September 27th, 2012...
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21st HRC Regular Session – Oral Statement Item 10: Technical Assistance and Capacity Building – Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia, Mr. Surya Subedi
Thank you, Madam President. FORUM-ASIA and its member organisations in Cambodia, the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) and the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), appreciate the Special Rapporteur’s reports, particularly the addendum on the situation of economic and other land concessions (A/HRC/21/63/Add.1), which highlights comprehensively the serious and widespread violations of human rights in the country – forcible confiscation of land, destruction of homes and property, as well as physical aggression and intimidation, including the use of firearms against individuals and communities. We are extremely disturbed that these chronic violations persist with impunity and stress that the situation has seen no alleviation with all the technical assistance and capacity building offered by this Council and the OHCHR.
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Trade Union Leader Summoned to Appear at Kandal Provincial Court on Charges of Incitement and Defamation
Mr.Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodia Confederation of Unions, is prominent advovate of labour rights and has lead many disenfranchised works in demonstrations and campaigns to demand fair employment standards and working conditions. Mr.Rong Chhun’s legal team requested that the court postpone the hearing until a later date. the court agreed and the new date for the case was set for 9am, Thursday, September 27th, 2012...
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21st HRC Regular Session – Oral Statement Item 10: Technical Assistance and Capacity Building – Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia, Mr. Surya Subedi
Thank you, Madam President. FORUM-ASIA and its member organisations in Cambodia, the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) and the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), appreciate the Special Rapporteur’s reports, particularly the addendum on the situation of economic and other land concessions (A/HRC/21/63/Add.1), which highlights comprehensively the serious and widespread violations of human rights in the country – forcible confiscation of land, destruction of homes and property, as well as physical aggression and intimidation, including the use of firearms against individuals and communities. We are extremely disturbed that these chronic violations persist with impunity and stress that the situation has seen no alleviation with all the technical assistance and capacity building offered by this Council and the OHCHR.
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Trade Union Leader Summoned to Appear at Kandal Provincial Court on Charges of Incitement and Defamation
Mr.Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodia Confederation of Unions, is prominent advovate of labour rights and has lead many disenfranchised works in demonstrations and campaigns to demand fair employment standards and working conditions. Mr.Rong Chhun’s legal team requested that the court postpone the hearing until a later date. the court agreed and the new date for the case was set for 9am, Thursday, September 27th, 2012...
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Public Forum on Human Rights and Development
Hundreds of residents from Chey Sen and Tbaeng Meanchey districts, Preah Vihear Province will attend the public forum organized by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR). A number of private companies that have been granted economic land concession started their operations, which affects hundred hectares of land enjoyed by the villagers.
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Public Forum on Human Rights and Development
Hundreds of residents from Chey Sen and Tbaeng Meanchey districts, Preah Vihear Province will attend the public forum organized by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR). A number of private companies that have been granted economic land concession started their operations, which affects hundred hectares of land enjoyed by the villagers.
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia, Surya P. Subedi
The report, submitted in accordance with resolution 18/25 of 26 September 2011 of the Human Rights Council, is an assessment of the human rights impact of economic land concessions (ELCs) and other land concessions and major development projects in Cambodia (generally referred to as ―land concessions throughout the report unless otherwise specified). It includes not only an analysis of concessions pertaining to agro-industry (for example, rubber, sugar, acacia and cassava plantations), but also to concessions for mining, oil and gas, forestry, and concessions for the purposes of tourism, property development, and large scale infrastructure, such as hydropower dams.
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Public Forum on Human Rights and Development
Hundreds of residents from Chey Sen and Tbaeng Meanchey districts, Preah Vihear Province will attend the public forum organized by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR). A number of private companies that have been granted economic land concession started their operations, which affects hundred hectares of land enjoyed by the villagers.
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Public Forum on Human Rights and Development
Hundreds of residents from Chey Sen and Tbaeng Meanchey districts, Preah Vihear Province will attend the public forum organized by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR). A number of private companies that have been granted economic land concession started their operations, which affects hundred hectares of land enjoyed by the villagers.
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