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Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 9 of the convention
The Committee welcomes the periodic reports submitted by Cambodia, and the opportunity thus offered to resume a dialogue with the State party. Noting that the report was more than 10 years overdue when submitted (the eighth report was due in 1998), the Committee requests the State party to be mindful of the deadline set for the submission of its future reports in order to meet its reporting obligation under the treaty.
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Statement of Indigenous Peoples on Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Request to follow their suggestion and strengthen the plan.
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2009 Human Rights Report in Cambodia
The government human rights record remained poor. Security forces committed extrajudicial killings and acted with impunity. Detainees were abused, often to extract confessions, and prison conditions were harsh. Human rights monitors reported arbitrary arrests and prolonged pretrial detention, underscoring a weak judiciary and denial of the right to a fair trial. Land disputes and forced evictions were a problem. The government restricted freedom of speech and the press through defamation and disinformation lawsuits and at times interfered with freedom of assembly. Corruption was endemic. Domestic violence and child abuse occurred, education of children was inadequate, and trafficking in women and children persisted. The government offered little assistance to persons with disabilities. Antiunion activity by employers and weak enforcement of labor laws continued, and child labor in the informal sector remained a problem.
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UN Encourages Effective Parliamentarian and Public Discussion of the Draft Anti-Corruption Law and Any Future Law as a Normal Part of Any Legislative and Democratic Process
The UN country team in Cambodia welcomes the consideration by the National Assembly of the longawaited Anti-Corruption law. It notes with concern that an extra-ordinary session was convened only days after the draft was shared publicly with parliamentarians. To its knowledge, no draft law has been shared with interested stakeholders, including civil society, since 2006.
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CAMBODIA: War Crimes Court Juggles Public Demands
Since its establishment in 2006, the UN-backed tribunal has sought to provide a greater voice to victims of the regime, while at the same time expediting a legal process bogged down by delays. As a result, the court decided last month to filter the representation of all victims through two lawyers because of the high number of applicants seeking to participate in the second case.
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The Coalition of Cambodian Civil Society Organizations Concerning the Draft Anti-Corruption Law
A coalition of Cambodian civil society organizations (in the following referred to as “the Coalition”) is very pleased to learn that the Cambodian National Assembly will debate the draft Anti-Corruption Law on March 10, 2010.
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Civil Society Organizations will Organize a Joint Press Conference
On March 9, 2010, civil society organizations will organize a joint press conference on “Civil Society’s Recommendations on the Draft Anti-Corruption Law”. The event will bestarted at 10:00A.
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MEDIA ALERT
On March 9, 2010, civil society organizations will organize a joint press conference on “Civil Society’s Recommendations on the Draft Anti-Corruption Law”. The event will be started at 10:00A.
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Rape Victims Worldwide Denied Justice and Dignity
Children, women, and sometimes also men, are subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence in countries all over the world. While acknowledging that all sexual violence, regardless of the identity of the victim, is important as a human rights issue, this report focuses on one form of sexual violence, namely rape of women in the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. In almost all reported rapes in the Nordic countries of people aged 15 years or older the victim of the crime is female, and the perpetrator is a man.2 Women are raped by men they are close to or acquainted with as well as by men completely unknown to them.
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Asia-Pacific has One of the World’s Worst Gender Gaps
The Report focuses on three key areas —economic power, political decision-making and legal rights―to analyse what holds women back, and how policies and attitudes can be changed to foster a climb toward gender equality. Asia, the Report asserts, is standing at a cross-road and by putting the right policies in place now, countries in the region can achieve positive change.
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RIGHTS OF MONITORS ABUSED AND PROTESTORS BLACKMAILED AS CRACKDOWN ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION CONTINUES UNABATED
We the named organisations, express our deepest concern at the prevention by Dangkar district police of a demonstration by villagers against the alleged seizure of their farmland, the arrest and reported blackmail of villagers who attempted to take part in the demonstration and the deletion of photographs taken by human rights monitors from the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Organisation (ADHOC) and the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO).
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