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Application of the CCHR to present an Amicus Curiae submission pursuant to Rule 33 of the Internal Rules of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
This Amicus Curiae brief is submitted by CCHR to assist the Pre-Trial Chamber in determining whether or not to uphold the Order on use of statements which were or may have been obtained by torture dated 28 July 2009 and made by the Office of the Co-Investigating Judges.
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Land Management and Administration Project
According to the Development Credit Agreement, the Project aims to assist the Borrower’s “program of actions, objectives and policies designed to improve land tenure security and promote the development of efficient land markets”
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Untitled Tenure Insecurity and Inequality in the Cambodia Land Sector
This report concludes that particular aspects of the design and a lack of effective implementation of key parts of LMAP have resulted in a system that excludes those vulnerable to eviction and other land rights abuses, impeding the project from improving tenure security in an equitable manner. A recent World Bank Enhanced Review Mission (ERM) concluded that although the project has resulted in undisputed benefits.
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Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Advisory Services and Technical Assistance for Cambodia
The present report is submitted in accordance with decision 9/15 of the Human Rights Council. The present Special Rapporteur was appointed with effect from 1 May 2009 and he undertook his first mission to Cambodia a month later, from 16 to 26 June 2009. Given the lack of time to conduct an in-depth assessment of the situation of human rights in the country so as to be able to report about it in a credible manner, the Special Rapporteur decided that he would focus his first mission on familiarizing himself with the complex realities of the country, to re-establish conditions for a fruitful dialogue with the Government on human rights issues of concern, and to look for ways to strengthen cooperation between the Government, civil society representatives and the international community around these issues.
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Role and Achievements of the OHCHR Cambodia
This report is prepared pursuant to resolution 9,15 of the Human Rights Council, in which it requested the Secretary-General to report to the Council at its twelfth session on the role and achievements of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in assisting the Government and the people of Cambodia in the promotion and protection of human rights.
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Electoral Reform in Cambodia Workshop Report
This workshop represented the culmination of a broader electoral reform initiative, which involved in-depth consultations with approximately 150 representatives from a diverse cross-section of society on the quality of the election process in Cambodia.
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Electoral Reform in Cambodia Program Consultations Report
Despite the number and diversity of the people contributing to this project, the assessments and suggestions were largely uniform. Whether a commune councilor, NGO leader, or journalist, or whether from the ruling party or opposition, people were surprisingly consistent in their remarks.
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Enhancing Independent Media in Cambodia
This report comprises the first phase of the CCIM’s project “Enhancing Independent Media in Cambodia” with generous funding from the European Union. It aims to identify, analyze, and offer solutions to the ethical dilemmas facing Cambodian journalists
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A Briefing note on Freedom of Expression, Defamation and Disinformation
Since April this year, not less than eight separate criminal defamation and disinformantion complaints have been lodged with the Courts by some of Cambodia’s highest public authorities against Government critics. One of them was lodged, not by an allegedly aggrieved individual, but in a generic manner on behalf of "the Government". These cases are currently under investigation by Phnom Penh Municipal Court Deputy Prosecutor, Mr. Sok Roeun. One of them was adjudicated on 8 June 2009.
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Land and Housing Rights in Cambodia
Violations of the Covenant are also occurring as a result of the lack of implementation of the constitutional and legislative protections that do exist. Despite the recognition of possession rights in the Land Law and the legal right to convert possession rights into full ownership rights, these provisions are being implemented in an arbitrary manner. In effect, possession rights are not being recognised for those households most vulnerable to forced evictions because they live on land that is sought after by powerful individuals and companies. Authorities have also refused to issue titles to such households despite evidence of valid possession rights.
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Recent Developments at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
Ominous signs of political manipulation by the Cambodian government and a repeated failure to tackle corruption continue to plague the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, according to this report released by the Open Society Justice Initiative. With the court’s first trial underway, the judicial process will be discredited unless the government reverses course.
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Land Grabbing and Poverty in Cambodia
Social Land Concessions continue to be established illegally in fact, not a single one has been completed in accordance with the relevant laws and perversely have been used to steal land from the poor rather than provide it to them. The Cambodian military continues to be involved in evictions, in contravention of the law, as well as heavily implicated in landgrabbing for their own benefit.
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