• Blurred Boundaries:  A Briefing Note on the Cambodian-Thai Border Tensions

    Blurred Boundaries: A Briefing Note on the Cambodian-Thai Border Tensions

    CCHR marks tomorrow’s ICJ decision by releasing a briefing note entitled “Blurred Boundaries: A Briefing Note on the Cambodian-Thai Border Tensions”, which sets out the history, causes and developments of the long-running border dispute. It is now vital that both countries allow third party independent players – either international or regional – to help them reach a final resolution to the border conflict, so as to end the ongoing bloodshed and displacement of civilians.

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  • Freedom Parks

    Freedom Parks

    There are concerns about the misuse of the 2009 Law on Peaceful Assembly (the "Demonstration Law") to suppress freedom of expression and assembly in the Kingdom of Cambodia (“Cambodia”), specifically the disturbing drift towards restricting peaceful gatherings or protests to “freedom parks”, in contravention of the Demonstration Law and the freedoms of expression and assembly as enshrined in domestic and international law.

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  • Cambodia: Free Human Rights Worker

    Cambodia: Free Human Rights Worker

    The Cambodian government should immediately release human rights defender Leang Sokchouen, Human Rights Watch said today. The Cambodian Appeals Court, on July 14, 2011, upheld his two-year prison sentence for peaceful political expression.

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  • Cambodia: Free Human Rights Worker

    Cambodia: Free Human Rights Worker

    The Cambodian government should immediately release human rights defender Leang Sokchouen, Human Rights Watch said today. The Cambodian Appeals Court, on July 14, 2011, upheld his two-year prison sentence for peaceful political expression.

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  • Cambodia: Free Human Rights Worker

    Cambodia: Free Human Rights Worker

    The Cambodian government should immediately release human rights defender Leang Sokchouen, Human Rights Watch said today. The Cambodian Appeals Court, on July 14, 2011, upheld his two-year prison sentence for peaceful political expression.

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  • Cambodia: Free Human Rights Worker

    Cambodia: Free Human Rights Worker

    The Cambodian government should immediately release human rights defender Leang Sokchouen, Human Rights Watch said today. The Cambodian Appeals Court, on July 14, 2011, upheld his two-year prison sentence for peaceful political expression.

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  • JOINT STATEMENT: Free the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Video Journalists

    JOINT STATEMENT: Free the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Video Journalists

    Twelve international media organisations fighting for freedom of expression and freedom of the press around the world today signed a joint statement calling on the Burmese government to put a stop to its harassment and prosecution of journalists and demanding the release of video journalists jailed for their work for the Democratic Voice of Burma

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  • JOINT STATEMENT: Free the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Video Journalists

    JOINT STATEMENT: Free the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Video Journalists

    Twelve international media organisations fighting for freedom of expression and freedom of the press around the world today signed a joint statement calling on the Burmese government to put a stop to its harassment and prosecution of journalists and demanding the release of video journalists jailed for their work for the Democratic Voice of Burma

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  • JOINT STATEMENT: Free the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Video Journalists

    JOINT STATEMENT: Free the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Video Journalists

    Twelve international media organisations fighting for freedom of expression and freedom of the press around the world today signed a joint statement calling on the Burmese government to put a stop to its harassment and prosecution of journalists and demanding the release of video journalists jailed for their work for the Democratic Voice of Burma

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  • JOINT STATEMENT: Free the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Video Journalists

    JOINT STATEMENT: Free the Democratic Voice of Burma’s Video Journalists

    Twelve international media organisations fighting for freedom of expression and freedom of the press around the world today signed a joint statement calling on the Burmese government to put a stop to its harassment and prosecution of journalists and demanding the release of video journalists jailed for their work for the Democratic Voice of Burma

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  • Cambodian Prison Overcrowding Crisis Only Getting Worse

    Cambodian Prison Overcrowding Crisis Only Getting Worse

    One year after LICADHO warned that Cambodia’s prisons were in danger of becoming the world’s most overcrowded, the country’s inmate population continues to spiral out of control.

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  • CCHR Releases Report Examining the Citizenship Rights of the Khmer Krom in Cambodia

    CCHR Releases Report Examining the Citizenship Rights of the Khmer Krom in Cambodia

    today releases a report titled “False Promises: Exploring the Citizenship Rights of the Khmer Krom in Cambodia” (the “Report”).The Report explores and analyzes the contradiction between the Royal Government of Cambodia’s (“RGC”) public confirmation that the ethnic Khmer from South Vietnam (the “Khmer Krom”) are Cambodian citizens, and the practical difficulties faced by the Khmer Krom who try to access the benefits of their Cambodian citizenship by applying for citizenship identity cards (“ID cards”) which are required to unlock the rights and benefits that are attached to citizenship/nationality such as employment, education, and property rights land rights.

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