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Civil Society Appeal for Urgent Solution to the Cambodian-Thai Border Dispute
We, representatives of Cambodian civil society, have grave concerns about the Cambodia-Thailand border dispute which has led to the fighting between the two countries, resulting in death and serious injury. This bloodshed is contrary to the principles of United Nation’s human rights conventions which both countries have ratified.
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Illegal Arrests and Social Affairs Centers: Time for Government Action, not More Denials
LICADHO deplores the government’s continued failure to take proper action to investigate and punish systematic abuses committed at the Prey Speu and Koh Kor Social Affairs Centers, and to ensure that such abuses cannot occur again.
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Respect for Housing, Land and Property Rights in Cambodia
In the countryside, home to approximately 85 per cent of the Cambodian population, landholdings are increasingly skewed, with hard-pressed subsistence farmers often forced to sell to urban speculators who hold large plots of arable land idle. Although rural land was relatively equitably distributed in the 1980s, landlessness subsequently mushroomed from in the late 1990s to in 2004. Meanwhile, programs meant to distribute land back to the rural poor have not been implemented. A prominent NGO, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, has seen land disputes rise to the human rights and social problem number one for rural Cambodians participating in its regular public forums.
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Courts Used as Weapon Against Community Representatives
The filing of criminal charges against nine community representatives from around Cambodia in the past week highlight the widespread misuse of the law against communities who try to defend themselves in land disputes, LICADHO said today.
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Report on Voter Registration Audit in Cambodia, September 2007
Cambodian elections have made remarkable progress since 1993. Although the 2007 Commune Council elections were one of the best so far, a low voter turnout (67%) raised concerns among the election stakeholders.
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Communities Collectively Lodge Land Complaints with Authorities in Phnom Penh
In June 2008, communities from 5 provinces that filed public complaints against land concessions and alleged land grabbing were subjected to harassment by the authorities, including restrictions on their movement and ability to hold meetings, and police threats preventing the delivery of complaints to authorities in Phnom Penh.
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Voices of Change
A young drug addict receives outreach from a commune chief and turns his life around. An HIVpositive police offi cer harnesses the courage to speak out against discrimination. A journalist uses the truth as a shield in the fi ght against corruption.
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