• ASEM Leaders: Respect and Realise the Right to Information

    ASEM Leaders: Respect and Realise the Right to Information

    ARTICLE 19 and the Foundation of Media Alternatives, together with a group of Asian and European right to information advocates, recommend leaders attending the 8th Asia-Europe Meeting adopt policies and measures to respect and realise full transparency and the right to information.

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  • Grassroots Advocacy in Cambodia - 109 Community Case Study Analysis September 2010s

    Grassroots Advocacy in Cambodia - 109 Community Case Study Analysis September 2010s

    Community representatives are highly experienced in advocacy on land and forestry issues but less experienced in fishery and evictions cases, and even less so on mining. Advocacy activities have been taken place mainly throughout Cambodia, with a higher concentration in Kampong Thom, Kampong Chhnang and Phnom Penh Community members have built their ties to community people, NGOs and other networks to discuss and address local problems, but only half or fewer effectively used the planning tools identified in the survey. More than half of the advocacy activities were successful or partially successful; only a few were considered completely unsuccessful. More than half of the advocates practiced active non‐violence principles, and more than half demonstrated positive leadership qualities. Community advocates have faced many challenges internally, such as limited knowledge and skills, and externally, through a range of difficulties with government actors.

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  • Cambodia: Systematic Erosion of Freedom of Expression Puts Democracy at Risk

    Cambodia: Systematic Erosion of Freedom of Expression Puts Democracy at Risk

    This press release aimed to provide the overview of theCambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) and 15 other Cambodian and international organisations and unions are launching a new report, titled Cambodia Gagged: Democracy at Risk? in which the organisations highlight the deteriorating freedom of expression situation in the country.

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  • Cambodia: Systematic Erosion of Freedom of Expression Puts Democracy at Risk

    Cambodia: Systematic Erosion of Freedom of Expression Puts Democracy at Risk

    This press release aimed to provide the overview of theCambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) and 15 other Cambodian and international organisations and unions are launching a new report, titled Cambodia Gagged: Democracy at Risk? in which the organisations highlight the deteriorating freedom of expression situation in the country.

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  • Cambodia: Systematic Erosion of Freedom of Expression Puts Democracy at Risk

    Cambodia: Systematic Erosion of Freedom of Expression Puts Democracy at Risk

    This press release aimed to provide the overview of theCambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) and 15 other Cambodian and international organisations and unions are launching a new report, titled Cambodia Gagged: Democracy at Risk? in which the organisations highlight the deteriorating freedom of expression situation in the country.

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  • Cambodia: Systematic Erosion of Freedom of Expression Puts Democracy at Risk

    Cambodia: Systematic Erosion of Freedom of Expression Puts Democracy at Risk

    This press release aimed to provide the overview of theCambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) and 15 other Cambodian and international organisations and unions are launching a new report, titled Cambodia Gagged: Democracy at Risk? in which the organisations highlight the deteriorating freedom of expression situation in the country.

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  • Good Governance Local Solutions to Local Problem

    Good Governance Local Solutions to Local Problem

    After more than 30 years of protracted war and conflict, Cambodia has emerged as a peaceful, secure nation competing for a spot on the global stage as a credible international player. New economic momentum has played out in unprecedented growth that rivals the most robust regional markets and has resulted in an overall improved economy as well as a thirst for continued prosperity.

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  • The Ulaanbaatar Roundtable on Democracy in Asia

    The Ulaanbaatar Roundtable on Democracy in Asia

    The purpose of this three day roundtable was to develop a set of civil society recommendations on actions that could be taken by the munity f Democracies (CD) to strengthen democracy in Asia. The meeting was framed around the Working Groups of the CD that have been launched by the Lithuania as CD Chair, focused on the specific thematic areas of Gender Equality and Women’s Rights; Enabling and Protecting Civil Society; Regional Cooperation; Poverty, Development and Democracy; and Promoting Democracy and Responding to National and Transnational Threats to Democracy. The International Steering Committee of the CD also chose to feature Democracy Education, as this is a subject the ISC/CD hopes will be taken up by a Working Group in the near future.

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  • Cambodia: Rainsy Sentence Shatters Pretense of Democracy

    Cambodia: Rainsy Sentence Shatters Pretense of Democracy

    This statement is aimed to provide the view of the Human Right Watch toward the conviction of the Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy on politicized charges.

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  • Cambodia: Rainsy Sentence Shatters Pretense of Democracy

    Cambodia: Rainsy Sentence Shatters Pretense of Democracy

    This statement is aimed to provide the view of the Human Right Watch toward the conviction of the Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy on politicized charges.

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  • Responsibility of International Buyers in the Protection of Workers’ Rights in Cambodia

    Responsibility of International Buyers in the Protection of Workers’ Rights in Cambodia

    This statement provides deep concert of The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) that a recent peaceful and lawful strike by garment and apparel workers in Cambodia has been met with legal threats and court-sponsored retaliation, with tacit approval from the Cambodian government, against union leaders and workers.

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  • Responsibility of International Buyers in the Protection of Workers’ Rights in Cambodia

    Responsibility of International Buyers in the Protection of Workers’ Rights in Cambodia

    This statement provides deep concert of The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) that a recent peaceful and lawful strike by garment and apparel workers in Cambodia has been met with legal threats and court-sponsored retaliation, with tacit approval from the Cambodian government, against union leaders and workers.

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