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Renew Mandate of the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cambodia Human Rights Watch Made the Following Statement at the UN Human Rights Council
The Special Rapporteur on Cambodia has only been able to carry out one short visit to Cambodia since the time of his appointment and has thus not yet been able to conduct an in-depth assessment of the rights situation.
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Report Finds Land Registration Program is Entrenching Inequality and Failing to Protect Vulnerable Groups
Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia (BABSEA), the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), and Jesuit Service Cambodia (JSC) called upon the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) and development partners to stop neglecting households most in need of tenure security in their report, “Untitled: Tenure Insecurity and Inequality in the Cambodian Land Sector,” released Monday. The report reviews the multi-donor funded Land Management and Administration Project (LMAP), which concludes in December 2009, and considers why, despite its commendable objectives, and the issuing of nearly one million titles, many vulnerable communities continue to face land tenure insecurity and forced displacement.
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Corruption and Human Rights: Making the Connection
The fight against corruption is central to the struggle for human rights. Corruption has always greased the wheels of the exploitation and injustice which characterize our world. From violent ethnic cleansing to institutionalized racism, political actors have abused their entrusted powers to focus on gains for the few at great cost for the many.
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Intimidation and Legal Threats Against Union Workers and Leaders Must Cease
September 21, 2010 - We, the undersigned organizations, are deeply disappointed with the government’s actions to intimidate and threaten workers and union members who have joined the four-day-garment strike from September 13-16, 2010.
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Intimidation and Legal Threats Against Union Workers and Leaders Must Cease
September 21, 2010 - We, the undersigned organizations, are deeply disappointed with the government’s actions to intimidate and threaten workers and union members who have joined the four-day-garment strike from September 13-16, 2010.
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Our Voice Newsletter - Children and Youth as the Agents of Advocacy and Democracy
August 25th 2009, At the Cozyna Angkor Hotel of Siem Reap Province, World Vision’s Children at High at Risk Prevention Project (CHRPP) open a workshop for children and youth from four provinces. The workshop aims to enable the children and youth to learn how to be an agent of advocacy and democracy, to understand about general overview of the democratic society and to promote children and youth’s role and responsibility to engage in local governance.
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Intimidation and Legal Threats Against Union Workers and Leaders Must Cease
September 21, 2010 - We, the undersigned organizations, are deeply disappointed with the government’s actions to intimidate and threaten workers and union members who have joined the four-day-garment strike from September 13-16, 2010.
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Intimidation and Legal Threats Against Union Workers and Leaders Must Cease
September 21, 2010 - We, the undersigned organizations, are deeply disappointed with the government’s actions to intimidate and threaten workers and union members who have joined the four-day-garment strike from September 13-16, 2010.
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Solve Cambodia’s Land Crisis in Courts, Not with Bullets
Phnom Penh-When police opened fire on unarmed farmers protesting confiscation of their land in Siem Reap province on March 22 this year, four villagers were seriously wounded. Luon Men - shot in both thighs - will probably be disabled for life.
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OHCHR Calls for an End to Harasment of Human Rights Defenders in Ratanakiri province
11, September 2009, ADHOC Coordinator Pen Bonna and Radio Free Asia Reporter Ratha Visal have been summoned by the Rattanakiri Provincial Court on 15 and 14 September respectively, reportedly for questioning on allegations of conspiracy to incite unspecified criminal offenses and incitement of villagers to violence and to illegal occupation of land. The summons are related to a complaint filed with the court in November 2008 against the two men who had been advising local villagers seeking to protect their land against a private company. Since then, no action has been taken by the court against them.
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