•  Five Shooting Incidents at Land Dispute Protests in the Past Two Months Show Alarming Increase in Use of Lethal Force

    Five Shooting Incidents at Land Dispute Protests in the Past Two Months Show Alarming Increase in Use of Lethal Force

    Cambodia’s land-grabbing crisis has taken a disturbingly violent turn in the last two months, with at least five incidents involving armed forces opening fire during protests. A total of 19residents were injured at the protests, including seven from gunfire. Each of the incidents has been documented in Video footage or photographs, but the perpetrators have to this uniformly escaped punishment, exemplifying Cambodia’s notorious system of impunity.

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  •  Five Shooting Incidents at Land Dispute Protests in the Past Two Months Show Alarming Increase in Use of Lethal Force

    Five Shooting Incidents at Land Dispute Protests in the Past Two Months Show Alarming Increase in Use of Lethal Force

    Cambodia’s land-grabbing crisis has taken a disturbingly violent turn in the last two months, with at least five incidents involving armed forces opening fire during protests. A total of 19residents were injured at the protests, including seven from gunfire. Each of the incidents has been documented in Video footage or photographs, but the perpetrators have to this uniformly escaped punishment, exemplifying Cambodia’s notorious system of impunity.

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  •  Five Shooting Incidents at Land Dispute Protests in the Past Two Months Show Alarming Increase in Use of Lethal Force

    Five Shooting Incidents at Land Dispute Protests in the Past Two Months Show Alarming Increase in Use of Lethal Force

    Cambodia’s land-grabbing crisis has taken a disturbingly violent turn in the last two months, with at least five incidents involving armed forces opening fire during protests. A total of 19residents were injured at the protests, including seven from gunfire. Each of the incidents has been documented in Video footage or photographs, but the perpetrators have to this uniformly escaped punishment, exemplifying Cambodia’s notorious system of impunity.

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  • RGC must respect ECCC Agreement or risk undermining the entire tribunal

    RGC must respect ECCC Agreement or risk undermining the entire tribunal

    Today, 23 January 2012, it was reported in The Cambodia Daily (“Gov’t Mute on Rejection of UN-Appointed Judge”) that the office of United Nations(“UN”) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has alleged that the Royal Government​of Cambodia has breached the agreement adopted in 2003 between Cambodia and the UN on the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (“ECCC”) by refusing to confirm the appointment reserve Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet as International Co-Investigating Judge.

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  • RGC must respect ECCC Agreement or risk undermining the entire tribunal

    RGC must respect ECCC Agreement or risk undermining the entire tribunal

    Today, 23 January 2012, it was reported in The Cambodia Daily (“Gov’t Mute on Rejection of UN-Appointed Judge”) that the office of United Nations(“UN”) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has alleged that the Royal Government​of Cambodia has breached the agreement adopted in 2003 between Cambodia and the UN on the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (“ECCC”) by refusing to confirm the appointment reserve Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet as International Co-Investigating Judge.

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  • RGC must respect ECCC Agreement or risk undermining the entire tribunal

    RGC must respect ECCC Agreement or risk undermining the entire tribunal

    Today, 23 January 2012, it was reported in The Cambodia Daily (“Gov’t Mute on Rejection of UN-Appointed Judge”) that the office of United Nations(“UN”) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has alleged that the Royal Government​of Cambodia has breached the agreement adopted in 2003 between Cambodia and the UN on the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (“ECCC”) by refusing to confirm the appointment reserve Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet as International Co-Investigating Judge.

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  • RGC must respect ECCC Agreement or risk undermining the entire tribunal

    RGC must respect ECCC Agreement or risk undermining the entire tribunal

    Today, 23 January 2012, it was reported in The Cambodia Daily (“Gov’t Mute on Rejection of UN-Appointed Judge”) that the office of United Nations(“UN”) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has alleged that the Royal Government​of Cambodia has breached the agreement adopted in 2003 between Cambodia and the UN on the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (“ECCC”) by refusing to confirm the appointment reserve Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet as International Co-Investigating Judge.

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  • Release of the twenty-seventh ILO Synthesis Report on Working Condintions in Cambodia’s Garment Sector

    Release of the twenty-seventh ILO Synthesis Report on Working Condintions in Cambodia’s Garment Sector

    On 18th January 2012, the Project Advisory Committee (PAC) of the ILO Better Factories Cambodia project met in Phnom Penh to review and endorse the Twenty-Seventh ILO Synthesis Report on working conditions in Cambodia’s Garment Industry. The PAC comprises representatives from the Royal Government of Cambodia, the Garment Manufactures Association in Cambodia and Cambodian trade unions.

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  • Release of the twenty-seventh ILO Synthesis Report on Working Condintions in Cambodia’s Garment Sector

    Release of the twenty-seventh ILO Synthesis Report on Working Condintions in Cambodia’s Garment Sector

    On 18th January 2012, the Project Advisory Committee (PAC) of the ILO Better Factories Cambodia project met in Phnom Penh to review and endorse the Twenty-Seventh ILO Synthesis Report on working conditions in Cambodia’s Garment Industry. The PAC comprises representatives from the Royal Government of Cambodia, the Garment Manufactures Association in Cambodia and Cambodian trade unions.

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  • Release of the twenty-seventh ILO Synthesis Report on Working Condintions in Cambodia’s Garment Sector

    Release of the twenty-seventh ILO Synthesis Report on Working Condintions in Cambodia’s Garment Sector

    On 18th January 2012, the Project Advisory Committee (PAC) of the ILO Better Factories Cambodia project met in Phnom Penh to review and endorse the Twenty-Seventh ILO Synthesis Report on working conditions in Cambodia’s Garment Industry. The PAC comprises representatives from the Royal Government of Cambodia, the Garment Manufactures Association in Cambodia and Cambodian trade unions.

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  • Release of the twenty-seventh ILO Synthesis Report on Working Condintions in Cambodia’s Garment Sector

    Release of the twenty-seventh ILO Synthesis Report on Working Condintions in Cambodia’s Garment Sector

    On 18th January 2012, the Project Advisory Committee (PAC) of the ILO Better Factories Cambodia project met in Phnom Penh to review and endorse the Twenty-Seventh ILO Synthesis Report on working conditions in Cambodia’s Garment Industry. The PAC comprises representatives from the Royal Government of Cambodia, the Garment Manufactures Association in Cambodia and Cambodian trade unions.

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  • CCHR calls for Cambodia to show strong national and international leadership regarding the promotion of human rights for LGBT people

    CCHR calls for Cambodia to show strong national and international leadership regarding the promotion of human rights for LGBT people

    The Cambodia Center for Human Rights ("CCHR"), welcomes the progressive foreign policy on the part of the United States ("US") government to "promote and protect" the rights or LGBT people around the world, and calls on the Royal Government of Cambodia ("RGC") to show strong national and international leadership regarding the promotion of human rights for LGBT people.

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