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Briefing Paper: Cambodia’s Draft Law on the Management and Use of Agricultural Land
Late last year, the Cambodian government quietly released a draft Law on the Management and Use of Agricultural Land that would have serious implications for private landholders. The draft law as currently written could be used as legal cover for land-grabbing and for those who wish to exploit and personally profit from Cambodia’s land and resources. Most alarmingly, the law creates felony criminal liability for any actions that violate the law’s far reaching provisions. The following aspects of the draft law require immediate scrutiny and substantial revisions.
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Cambodia - Demand for Good Governance Project : P101156 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 05 (English)
Progress toward the development objective during the March implementation support mission was upgraded to satisfactory on average. In Component 1, to enhance mediation, the Arbitration Council is making strides in developing its role as arbitrator of labor disputes with 516 cases handled (72% of final revised target) and with 71% of those cases resolved. Also 72% of employer and union representatives report high levels of confidence in the independence, credibility and effectiveness of the Council. The One Window Service Office(OWSO) sub-component has enhanced transparency and access to services in 17 pilot districts. Independent monitoring at the end of 2011 found that 93% of OWSO users and 97% of elected officials are satisfied with the services provided. The introduction of NGOs as third party monitors has produced increased accountability and responsiveness. In...
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New Media and the Promotion of Human Rights in Cambodia
This report, “New Media and the Promotion of Human Rights in Cambodia” (the “Report”), seeks to explore the extent to which new media, namely mobile phones and the internet, are used in Cambodia, and in particular how they are used to promote and protect human rights.
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Torture in the Name of Treatment
More than 350,000 people identified as drug users are held in compulsory drug "treatment" centers in China and Southeast Asia. Detainees are held without due process for periods of months or years and may be subjected to physical and sexual abuse, torture, and forced labor. International donors and UN agencies have supported and funded drug detention centers, while centers have systematically denied detainees access to evidence-based drug dependency treatment and HIV prevention services. "Torture in the Name of Treatment," summarizes Human Rights Watch’s findings over five years of research in China, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Lao PDR.
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Off the Streets
In Cambodia, those tasked with upholding the law are often those who inflict some of the worst abuse. Sex workers in particular know this to be true. Women and girls involved in sex work face beatings, rape, sexual harassment, extortion, arbitrary arrest and detention, forced labor, and other cruel and degrading treatment at the hands of police, public park security guards, government officials, and those working in the centers and offices run by the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans, and Youth Rehabilitation (MOSAVY).
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia, Surya P. Subedi
The year 2011 witnessed the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Peace Agreements, which consolidated the peace process in Cambodia. The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia has its origins in the Agreements. As the country approaches its general election, in July 2013, the time is ripe to take stock of the progress made over the past 20 years and to tackle the governance challenges that persist.
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Annual Report 2011
2011 will be remembered for the demonstrations that arose across the world - from India to Athens, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. The grievances that drove people to the streets were particular to each country, but corruption was a common denominator throughout. As we work to fulfill the ambitions of our Strategy 2015, our resolve to free people from the devastating effects of corruption only increases.
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Annual Report 2011
2011 will be remembered for the demonstrations that arose across the world - from India to Athens, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. The grievances that drove people to the streets were particular to each country, but corruption was a common denominator throughout. As we work to fulfil the ambitions of our Strategy 2015, our resolve to free people from the devastating effects of corruption only increases.
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Beyond Capacity 2012: A Progress Report on Cambodia’s Exploding Prison Population
This is the third installment in LICADHO’s annual series on prison overcrowding in Cambodia1. LICADHO first reported on the explosive growth in the prison system in 2010, when the nation’s prisons were filled to 167% of their capacity and the inmate population was growing by about 14% annually.
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Implementation Status & Results Cambodia Higher Education Quality and Capacity Improvement Project (P106605)
This ISR covers from the project effectiveness to the end of October 2011. The information is drawn from the February 2011 aide-memoire and an interim progress report submitted in November 2011. Since the last implementation support mission held in February 2011, the project has made considerable progress on all components. After the initial start up delays, the project is now on course, with a solid accelerated work plan set for 2012. As of November 14, 2011, the total accumulated disbursement was 0.87 million SDR (5.5%
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Assessment of Public-Private Partnerships in Cambodia: Constraints and Opportunities
This report is a diagnostic assessment of the readiness of Cambodia to develop and manage public–private partnerships (PPPs). It was prepared jointly with the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), and it is part of a series of studies being prepared by the Southeast Asia Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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Meet the Boeung Kak Lake 15 Biographies
In May 2012, 15 activists from the Boeung Kak Lake community in Phnom Penh were arrested in relation to a land dispute that displaced thousands of families. Thirteen of them have been convicted and are now serving prison terms; the remaining two were released from pretrial detention on June 15 but still face charges. This document features photographs and biographies of each of the 15 activists.
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