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Democracy Election and Reform in Cambodia
COMFREL continues its reports on ‘Democracy, Elections and Reform’, which assesses the annual state of democracy in Cambodia.1 The annual report takes a comparative approach in asking, what changed in comparison to previous years? Did the political system of Cambodia progress toward a consolidated democracy or is stagnation or even a regression observable, which put the democratization process into question? The assessment of the democratization process is based on the findings of the COMFREL Monitoring Units ‘Government Watch’, ‘Parliamentary Watch’, ‘Media Watch’, ‘Election Watch’, and ‘Gender Watch’.
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Summary Report 2011 of the Khmer Krom Association for Human Rights and Development
60% among of beneficiaries have mainstreamed and shared their knowledge to family and community members.
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Globlal Report on the Situation of Women Human Rights Defenders
The Global Report on the Situation of Women Human Rights Defenders, hereon referred to as the Global Report, reflects the growing body of analyses produced by the members of the Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition (WHRD International Coalition) since 2005. It demonstrates the evolution of our articulation of challenges to women human rights defenders (WHRDs), the source of these challenges and how best to respond to them. The use of 43 cases studies selected by WHRD International Coalition illuminate specific trends and experiences of WHRDs. The cases provide a vivid glimpse of the landscape in which WHRDs live and work.
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Derailed: A Study on the Resettlement Process and Impacts of the Rehabilitation of the Cambodian Railways
A key objective of the 1995 ADB Policy on Involuntary Resettlement is to ensure that displaced people receive assistance “so that they would be at least as well-off as they would have been in the absence of the project.”149 Likewise, an overriding objective of the 2009 Policy is “to enhance, or at least restore, the livelihoods of all displaced persons in real terms relative to pre-project levels.” 150 The latter Policy also aims to “improve the standards of living of the displaced poor and other vulnerable groups.”151 These themes are repeated throughout the policies and are reflected in the Project Resettlement Plans.
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Economic Land Concessions and Local Communities
Evidences from all the four case studies suggest that the granting of ELCs usually overlapped the land local people claimed. The scope of overlapping ranges from farmland to homestead land. Indigenous People communities in particular are prone to such overlapping due to their conventional land use such as practice of shifting cultivation and their livelihoods are also vulnerable since they are more reliant on common resources such as forest.
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Report Summary on Assessment of NGO Participation and Representation in Technical Workin Groups (TWGs)
Resettlement Action Network (RAN), a network of NGO Forum on Cambodia, conducted a field survey to study resettlement impacts caused by the National Road No.1 Improvement Project, currently implemented by the government of Cambodia with assistance from Japanese Official DevelopmentAssistance. The Project requires the resettlement of more than 1800 households, and RAN has raised serious concerns over the resettlement impacts of the Project.
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Annual Report 2011
KRT met with 867 civil parties in 2011 to provide training and information sessions on their rights and the ECCC proceedings. Four sessions were held in Phnom Penh with 43 civil parties attending and 22 sessions were held in the provinces with 824 civil parties attending.
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Fair Trial Rights and Trial Monitoring Handbook: An Overview of Fair Trial Rights in Cambodian and International Law and Guidance on How to Develop a Trial Monitoring Project
The independent and efficient functioning of the judiciary is central to the protection and enforcement of human rights. The Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia (the “Constitution”) provides for recognition and respect for human rights, as stipulated in all relevant international instruments. This includes the right to a fair trial, more specifically defined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (the “ICCPR”) as “the right of every person accused of a crime to receive a fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal established by law”.
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