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CCHR Expresses Concern Regarding the Cambodian Authorities’ Repeated Attempts to Limit Peaceful Assembly of Civil Society Groups
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) would like to highlight and express concern regarding the continued negative reaction from Cambodian authorities in response to requests or notifications by civil society groups attempting to hold peaceful demonstrations in Phnom Penh. CCHR would like to remind the Royal Government of Cambodia (“RGC”) and the Phnom Penh municipal authorities that it is their duty, not to restrict free assembly, but to facilitate it through maintaining peace and public order.
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CCHR expresses concern regarding the Cambodian authorities’ repeated attempts to limit peaceful assembly of civil society groups
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) would like to highlight and express concern regarding the continued negative reaction from Cambodian authorities in response to requests or notifications by civil society groups attempting to hold peaceful demonstrations in Phnom Penh.
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FIVE PROTESTERS INJURED BY AUTHORITIES AT AN EVENT TO MARK WORLD HABITAT DAY 2013
Phnom Penh, 10 October 2013 – The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) is alarmed at the use of force by the authorities during an event to mark World Habitat Day 2013. World Habitat Day is intended to remind the world of its duty to protect the basic right to adequate shelter.
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ADHOC CONCERNED OVER POLITICALLY MOTIVATED HARASSMENT, ARRESTS AND DETENTION OF OPPOSITION ACTIVISTS
Phnom Penh, 08 October 2013 – The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) is deeply concerned at the numerous reports it has received from people who have been intimidated and harassed when attempting to exercise their legitimate rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly.
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CCHR urges buyers and GMAC to support transparency efforts in the Cambodian garment industry
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) welcomes the decision by the International Labour Organisation’s Better Factories Cambodia program (“ILO-BFC”) to return to publically disclosing some of its findings, based on the monitoring of over 450 factories, in January 2014 and urges companies currently supplied by Cambodia-based factories and the Garment Manufacturers’ Association in Cambodia (GMAC) to support this initiative.
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THE HUB, CAMBODIA’S GARMENT FACTORIES & LGBT
This edition of the Sithi Project newsletter highlights new and noteworthy activities undertaken over the past several months: regular trainings for human rights enthusiasts within CCHR’s new technology-focused “Sithi Hub,” a map of garment factories operating throughout Cambodia, and the new Rainbow Khmer Portal – CCHR’s one-stop shop for information related to the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (“LGBT”) Cambodians.
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CCHR publishes the Database of Trial Monitoring in Cambodia
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) publishes today – 26 September 2013 – a database of all criminal trials monitored within the Cambodian courts by CCHR’s Trial Monitoring Project (the “Project”) implemented since August 2009 (the “Database”). The Database provides key data, findings, briefing note and analysis, and reports in regard to the practice of fair trial rights within the domestic courts.
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Joint Statement on the Release of Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun
Phnom Penh, 25 September 2013 – The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC) and Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) today applaud the decision by the Supreme Court to release Mr. Born Samnang and Mr. Sok Sam Oeun, who have spent more than four and a half years in prison to date for a crime they did not commit. The two were convicted in August 2005 of the murder of Mr. Chea Vichea, leader of the Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia (FTUWKC), who was gunned down in broad daylight in central Phnom Penh on the 22 January 2004.
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Cambodia’s Supreme Court Declares Two scapegoats of Union Leader’s Murder Not Guilty
September 25, 2013 - We, the undersigned organisations, welcome the long overdue decision made by the Supreme Court this afternoon to free Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun and drop all charges against them .
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Political Platform of the Royal Government of Cambodia of the Fifth Legislature of the National Assembly
In fulfilling its historic mission to serve the nation, country an people, to transform Cambodia into a magnificent land of solid development, peace and prosperity, where smile and hope shine on the face of everyone living in harmony, solidarity and prosperous life without fear of the recurring past tragedies
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Cambodia’s government and donors must act now to prevent escalation of violence
Gravely concerned at the Cambodian authorities’ repeated use of excessive force to prevent and suppress the people’s exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression, the undersigned non-governmental organizations call on the Cambodian and foreign governments to take immediate action to prevent the human rights situation from deteriorating further.
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ILO-Better Factories Cambodia Returns to Public Disclosure of Assessment Findings
The International Labour Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program today announces its return to a practice of publicly disclosing individual factory information collected in its assessment reports. BFC’s disclosure initiative makes it the only program in Southeast Asia to use greater transparency to accelerate improvements across the garment sector. More than 450 Cambodian garment factories are registered with the BFC program.
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