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Statical Analysis on Land Dispute Occurring in Cambodia 2009
The rate of land dispute cases dramatically declined in 2009 in comparison with the statistical analysis of 2008. However, the three provinces with the highest incidents of land conflict (Battambang, Preah Sihanouk, and Kandal provinces) remained the same as in the previous year.
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NGO Statement on the Concluding Observation UN Committee on International Convention
Non Government Organisations working on human and indigenous peoples’ rights have reviewed the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the International Convention on Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
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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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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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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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Addressing Local Demand for Commercial Sex With Children in Cambodia
This Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE) sheds light on the issue of local demand for commercial sex with children under 18 in Cambodia. Through its findings, this PAE informs current trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation programming in Cambodia and recommends a strategy for ECPAT-Cambodia, the client of this PAE, on how to address local demand for commercial sex with children.
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Breaking the Silence Sexual Violence in Cambodia
A growing number of rape reports, including against very young girls and gang rapes, fill Cambodian newspapers. Most police, NGO workers and public officials working with the issue agree that rape is on the increase. The lack of appropriate services for victims of rape is acute, and reflects social attitudes about rape and sexual violence, The lack of effective investigations and prosecution further harms victims, who often live with the fear that the perpetrator is free to attack them again, with the additional psychological pain and a perceived loss of dignity. Failures by the authorities, including in the criminal justice system, go unquestioned and become an extension of the initial abuse.
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Recent Developments at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
This report highlights the most significant challenges currently facing the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: political interference, a failure to adequately address corruption, and fundraising. Each requires intervention at senior levels by the government of Cambodia, the UN, and the diplomatic community.
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Law Review
CJR applauds the RGC’s success in its efforts to promote legal and judicial reform as enumerated in its Rectangular Strategy. Although the judicial system is far from meeting its Constitutional aspirations, the judicial landscape is not entirely a gloomy one. In other words, the administration of justice is not universally flawed in Cambodia, and indeed, CJR’s monitors have noted a number of trials in which the judge controlled the proceedings to ensure that defendant’s rights were respected. CJR also observed cases in which defense counsel rose up to the occasion and provided her client with zealous advocacy.
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Annual Report 2009
Awareness of disability legislation, CRPD, Discrimination, the DPOs movement, and rights abuse was raised on monthly Radio live, TV spot, and radio spot. The radio program was broadcast on Radio 106.5FM. Feedback from listeners was received by SMS to every program. CDPO produced TV and radio spots on the topic We Declare our Rights which were broadcast on local TV and radio stations. Awareness of People with Disabilities rights was raised at a public forum, three universities and pagodas were informed of disability issues and the rights of PwDs. The public forum about We Declare our Rights was gattended by 89 participants from DPOs, Federations,PWDs, UNOHCHR, NGOs, INGOs, ministries, and students and was highly presided by H.E Sem Sokha Secretary of State of MoSVY.
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The Right of Appeal and Cambodia Inmate Transportation Crisis
Over 500 inmates with pending appeals are detained in Cambodias provinces, some of them hundreds of kilometers away from the nations only appeals court in Phnom Penh. Due to Cambodias near total lack of a long distance inmate transportation network, these inmates are at grave risk of being denied one of the most basic elements of a fair trial The right to have a conviction and sentence properly reviewed by a higher tribunal1.
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