• The start of trial of senior Khmer Rouge leaders is a day for victims of that regime, young and old

    The start of trial of senior Khmer Rouge leaders is a day for victims of that regime, young and old

    Monday, 21 November 2011 will be a historic day for Cambodia, with the start of Case 002 at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the trial of Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary and Khieu Samphan.

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  • Cambodia: Joint Letter to Huruhiko Kuroda, President of Asian Development Bank, regarding the draft law threatening civil society in Cambodia

    Cambodia: Joint Letter to Huruhiko Kuroda, President of Asian Development Bank, regarding the draft law threatening civil society in Cambodia

    We write to bring your immediate attention to Cambodia’s draft Law on Associations and NGOs (LANGO). The draft law poses a serious threat to civil society’s freedom of association and freedom of expression as it contains broad and vague provisions that could be used to arbitrarily deny registration or close NGOs or associations. The ADB should convince the Cambodian authorities to immediately withdraw the draft law.

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  • Cambodia: Joint Letter to Huruhiko Kuroda, President of Asian Development Bank, regarding the draft law threatening civil society in Cambodia

    Cambodia: Joint Letter to Huruhiko Kuroda, President of Asian Development Bank, regarding the draft law threatening civil society in Cambodia

    We write to bring your immediate attention to Cambodia’s draft Law on Associations and NGOs (LANGO). The draft law poses a serious threat to civil society’s freedom of association and freedom of expression as it contains broad and vague provisions that could be used to arbitrarily deny registration or close NGOs or associations. The ADB should convince the Cambodian authorities to immediately withdraw the draft law.

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  • Cambodia: Joint Letter to Huruhiko Kuroda, President of Asian Development Bank, regarding the draft law threatening civil society in Cambodia

    Cambodia: Joint Letter to Huruhiko Kuroda, President of Asian Development Bank, regarding the draft law threatening civil society in Cambodia

    We write to bring your immediate attention to Cambodia’s draft Law on Associations and NGOs (LANGO). The draft law poses a serious threat to civil society’s freedom of association and freedom of expression as it contains broad and vague provisions that could be used to arbitrarily deny registration or close NGOs or associations. The ADB should convince the Cambodian authorities to immediately withdraw the draft law.

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  • Cambodia: Joint Letter to Huruhiko Kuroda, President of Asian Development Bank, regarding the draft law threatening civil society in Cambodia

    Cambodia: Joint Letter to Huruhiko Kuroda, President of Asian Development Bank, regarding the draft law threatening civil society in Cambodia

    We write to bring your immediate attention to Cambodia’s draft Law on Associations and NGOs (LANGO). The draft law poses a serious threat to civil society’s freedom of association and freedom of expression as it contains broad and vague provisions that could be used to arbitrarily deny registration or close NGOs or associations. The ADB should convince the Cambodian authorities to immediately withdraw the draft law.

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  • Cambodia: Reclaiming Life after Acid Attacks

    Cambodia: Reclaiming Life after Acid Attacks

    A cook in the Cambodian city Siem Reap, Chhean was compelled to take action against her sister’s tyrannical brother-in-law when in 2008 he sold his two-year-old daughter to a trafficking ring so he could buy a new motorbike. Chhean, a widow and sole provider for her four children, urged her sister Baen to file a law suit and openly demanded that her brother-in-law get the two year old back. Instead, her brother-in-law threatened Chean’s life. That threat turned real one day when he drove by on his motorbike while Chhean was working and threw acid on her. It burned her face, eyes, shoulders, left hand and the left side of her back.

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  • Cambodia: Reclaiming Life after Acid Attacks

    Cambodia: Reclaiming Life after Acid Attacks

    A cook in the Cambodian city Siem Reap, Chhean was compelled to take action against her sister’s tyrannical brother-in-law when in 2008 he sold his two-year-old daughter to a trafficking ring so he could buy a new motorbike. Chhean, a widow and sole provider for her four children, urged her sister Baen to file a law suit and openly demanded that her brother-in-law get the two year old back. Instead, her brother-in-law threatened Chean’s life. That threat turned real one day when he drove by on his motorbike while Chhean was working and threw acid on her. It burned her face, eyes, shoulders, left hand and the left side of her back.

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  • Cambodia: Reclaiming Life after Acid Attacks

    Cambodia: Reclaiming Life after Acid Attacks

    A cook in the Cambodian city Siem Reap, Chhean was compelled to take action against her sister’s tyrannical brother-in-law when in 2008 he sold his two-year-old daughter to a trafficking ring so he could buy a new motorbike. Chhean, a widow and sole provider for her four children, urged her sister Baen to file a law suit and openly demanded that her brother-in-law get the two year old back. Instead, her brother-in-law threatened Chean’s life. That threat turned real one day when he drove by on his motorbike while Chhean was working and threw acid on her. It burned her face, eyes, shoulders, left hand and the left side of her back.

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  • Summary of NGO Comments on the Draft Law on Public Procurement by the NGO Working Group

    Summary of NGO Comments on the Draft Law on Public Procurement by the NGO Working Group

    Although the terms “transparency” and “accountability” are included in the law, there are no procedures to insure transparency or accountability. There should be independent, outside or independent observers who monitor the procurement process, and clear procedures to ensure transparency and accountability...

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  • Cambodia: Reclaiming Life after Acid Attacks

    Cambodia: Reclaiming Life after Acid Attacks

    A cook in the Cambodian city Siem Reap, Chhean was compelled to take action against her sister’s tyrannical brother-in-law when in 2008 he sold his two-year-old daughter to a trafficking ring so he could buy a new motorbike. Chhean, a widow and sole provider for her four children, urged her sister Baen to file a law suit and openly demanded that her brother-in-law get the two year old back. Instead, her brother-in-law threatened Chean’s life. That threat turned real one day when he drove by on his motorbike while Chhean was working and threw acid on her. It burned her face, eyes, shoulders, left hand and the left side of her back.

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  • Discriminatory Laws and Practices and Acts of Violence Against Individuals Based on Their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

    Discriminatory Laws and Practices and Acts of Violence Against Individuals Based on Their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity

    The present report is submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to its resolution 17/19, in which the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to commission a study documenting discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, and how international human rights law can be used to end violence and related human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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  • CCHR condemns criminal complaint against CCHR staff member and other activists campaigning to save Prey Lang Forest

    CCHR condemns criminal complaint against CCHR staff member and other activists campaigning to save Prey Lang Forest

    CCHR condemns criminal complaint against CCHR staff member and other activists campaigning to save Prey Lang Forest.It was reported in today’s Phnom Penh Post (“Prey Lang protest puts foursome in firing line”) that Sandan district police chief Oung Moly has filed a complaint against two Prey Lang community members, Sim Sean and Roeun Sopheap, and two NGO workers, Chut Wutty of the Natural Resource Protection Group (NRPG) and Chhim Savuth of CCHR, alleging a crime of destruction of property against the community members and a crime of incitement against the NGO workers respectively.

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