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An Overview of Parliamentary Immunity under Cambodian Law
This Briefing Note provides an overview on the status of parliamentary immunity under Cambodian law, in light of a Court of Appeal hearing in Phnom Penh on 3 August 2012, at which the parliamentary immunity of a prominent opposition Sam Rainsy Party (“SRP”) lawmaker, Mu Sochua, was restored.
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A Gendered Analysis of Decentralisation Reform in Cambodia
The Law on Administration and Management of Communes/Sangkats (LAMC) and the Law on Commune Elections, both declared in 2001, define Cambodia’s democratic decentralisation. These laws established the commune as a pivotal nexus for sub-national governance and development.
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The Greater Mekong Subregion at 20: Progress and Prospects
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) includes Cambodia, the People’s Republic of China (specifically Yunnan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region), the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam
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2012 Report on Constituency Dialogues in Cambodia
In Cambodia, the relationship between parliamentarians and their constituents is weak. Citizens rarely enjoy opportunities to express their views or advocate reforms to their elected representatives, and many legislators do not regularly visit their constituencies to report on their activities and programs.
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CCHR Briefing Note on Security Reform
This Briefing Note provides an overview of some of the current concerns relating to the army and police in the Kingdom of Cambodia (“Cambodia”), calls for a national debate on security reform, and makes some recommendations to assist with the process.
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Fifth Bi-annual Report “Fair Trial Rights in Cambodia”
This Bi-Annual Report on fair trial rights in Cambodia (the “Report”) is a result of the work of the Cambodian Trial Monitoring Project (the “Project”), that was implemented by CCHR. It presents and analyzes data collected from 463 trials involving 915 accused which were monitored at Phnom Penh Capital City Court of First Instance (the “Phnom Penh Court”), BanteayMeanchey Provincial Court of First Instance (the “BanteayMeanchey Court”), Ratanakiri Provincial Court of First Instance (the “Ratanakiri Court”) and Kandal Provincial Court of First Instance (the “Kandal Court”) between July 1 and December 31, 2011 (the “Fifth Reporting Period”). This is the fifth bi-annual report produced by the Project.
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Amnesty International Report 2012: The State of the World’s Human Rights
Amnesty International’s 2012 report reveals that failed leadership has gone global in 2011. But, as millions take to the streets to demand freedom and justice, it is no longer business as usual for tyranny and oppression.
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Cambodia - Amnesty International Report 2012
Forced evictions, land disputes and land grabbing continued on a large scale, with thousands of people affected. An increase in the number of economic land concessions granted to business interests by the government exacerbated the situation. Impunity for perpetrators of human rights abuses and lack of an independent judiciary remained serious problems. The authorities continued to restrict the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly by threatening, harassing and taking legal action against human rights defenders in an effort to silence them. Grassroots communities and land and housing rights activists were particularly at risk. A controversial proposed law to regulate NGOs and associations met with widespread opposition from civil society and was postponed. Critical developments at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia threatened to derail proceedings and deny justice to the victims of Khmer Rouge atrocities.
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“Tell Them That I Want to Kill Them” Two Decades of Impunity in Hun Sen’s Cambodia
In early 1993, ahead of elections organized by the United Nations, four Cambodian political activists, all recently returned refugees, were abducted by soldiers in Battambang province in northwest Cambodia. The four were taken to a nearby military base. They were never seen again.
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World e-Parliament Report 2012
The extraordinary advances and rapid social and economic diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) have had a profound impact on the lives of individual citizens and on the functioning of public institutions. As technology, citizen engagement, and the political process have come together, parliaments have been confronted with growing demands to be more open and more responsive to citizens. Currently, however, global economic conditions are forcing many legislatures to work with fewer resources. Technology alone cannot address all the challenges, but when planned and implemented strategically, it can generate gains in efficiency and effectiveness throughout the legislature’s operations, while fostering the parliamentary democratic values of transparency, accountability and accessibility.
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2012 ANNI Report on the Performance and Establishment of National Human Rights Institutions in Asia
The past couple of years have seen an increasing international recognition of the role of NHRIs in the promotion and protection of human rights. A growing number of Asian countries have either recently established or are considering the establishment of NHRIs, including in Burma, where the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) was set up in September 2011. Meanwhile the UN Human Rights Council on 16 June 2011 adopted a resolution on “National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights” – the first-ever Human Rights Council resolution to focus specifically on the work of NHRIs.
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