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World Report 2012: Cambodia
Twenty years after the signing of the Paris Agreements in 1991, Cambodia’s human rights record remains poor. The government of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) continues to use the judiciary, penal code, and threats of arrest or legal action to restrict free speech, jail government critics, disperse peaceful protests by workers and farmers, and silence opposition party members. In 2011 it threatened one of the key accomplishments of the Paris Agreements—the spectacular growth of NGOs, community-based civic groups, informal associations, and grassroots networks—by proposing a law that would give it wide discretion to shut down associations and NGOs.
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World Report 2012
This 22nd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.
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Free, Prior and Informed Consent in the Development Process in Indigenous People Communities of Mondulkiri and Ratanakiri Province
Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) is an evolving concept that acknowledges Indigenous Peoples’ legitimate decision-making authority to approve or disapprove of activities proposed by outsiders on the land to which their culture and identity is intrinsically bound. While there is not yet an agreed upon universal definition, FPIC is a clear concept and a useful way to ensure that the rights of Indigenous Peoples (IP) to make decisions about their land are respected.
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Twenty Seventh Synthesis Report on Working Conditions in Cambodia’s Garment Sector
This report focuses on compliance indicators that have been deemed by researchers to be possible contributors to the fainting incidents. While the Cambodian garment industry has demonstrated consistent compliance on indicators such as payment of the proper minimum wage and overtime wages and provision of annual leave, improvements can be made in other areas that contribute to the health and welfare of workers
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World Report 2012
The World Report is Human Rights Watch’s twenty-second annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It summarizes key human rights issues in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide, drawing on events from January through November 2011. The book is divided into five essays, followed by a photo essay, and country specific chapters.
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Report on Constituency Dialogues in Cambodia, 2011
The CD program is a multiparty event, involving representatives from five parties in the National Assembly – the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP), FUNCINPEC,4 the Human Rights Party (HRP), and Norodom Ranariddh Party (NRP).5
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Report on Constituency Dialogues in Cambodia 2011
More than 11,000 citizens (almost 50 percent of them women) and 35 national legislators (including seven women) attended the 24 constituency dialogues between November 2010 and September 2011. Across 12 provinces, dialogue participants echoed the same three problems affecting their lives: land conflicts; infrastructure and irrigation needs; and corruption and unequal enforcement by local authorities. Inequity was the underlying theme of these problems, and participants expressed their concern that the rich and powerful received all the benefits – land, development, and justice.
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Third Bi-Annual Report: Fair Trail Rights - One Year Progress
This bi-annual report on fair trial rights in Camboidia (the "Report") is an output of the Cambodia Trial Monitoring Project (the "Project"), implemented by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights ("CCHR"). It presents and analyzes data collected from the monitoring of 585 trials involving 1029 accused at Phnom Penh Capital Court of First Instance (the "Phnom Penh Court") and Kandal Provincial Court of First Instance (the "Kandal Court") between July 1 and December 31, 2010 (the "Third Reporting Period"). This is the third bi-annual Report"), in July 2010 and second bi-annual report (the "Second Bi-annual Reprot"), in March 2011.
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Freedom of the Press 2012
Press freedom in Cambodia remained under attack in 2011, as the authorities continued to develop and utilize legal mechanisms to silence independent media. For much of the year the government pushed for passage of the Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations (LANGO), but domestic and international objections forced officials to postpone the legislation in late December. The law would impose an opaque registration process and other requirements that were expected to fetter the work of community groups, including grassroots media outlets.
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Countries at the Crossroads
Cambodia emerged in 1998 from decades of war and internal upheaval. The period of warfare included a devastating bombing campaign by the United States between 1968 and 1973, followed by the takeover of the country by the infamous Khmer Rouge regime, whose oppressive strategies of collectivization caused the deaths of more than a million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979. The Khmer Rouge were ousted by an invasion of the Vietnamese army in 1979, but this was followed by another decade of intense civil war and international trade and aid sanctions, as the conflict  was transformed into a proxy war in which rivalries between the Soviet Union, China, and the West were fought out. The war was brought to a close over the course of the 1990s, following the withdrawal of the Vietnamese in 1989 and a United Nations peacekeeping operation between 1991 and 1993. Insurgency continued in border areas until 1996, when amnesty was offered for remaining Khmer Rouge fighters.
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Commune Council Election Report in 2012
To systematically select communes for observation, NICFEC cooperated with Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) to draw a multistage random sample of 300 communes. The decision to use a statistical sample was to enable NICFEC to draw conclusions about the voter registration process in its entirety, within a margin of error. (See Appendix A for locations.)
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Freedom in the World
In June 2011, the UN-backed tribunal trying former leaders of the Khmer Rouge placed the remaining four defendants on trial, following the conviction of the first in 2010. But tribunal staff members resigned after the body proved unwilling to investigate other suspects still at large. Critics of the government continued to face legal harassment, while the leadership used a border dispute with Thailand to boost nationalism and consolidate the power of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his family. Separately, new incidents of land grabs by companies with links to the government, along with protests against these practices, continued in the Cambodian countryside.
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