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Cambodia: Focus Should Be on Rights, Not Elections
(New York) - In a report, "Cambodia: Aftermath of the Coup," Human Rights Watch/Asia calls on the international community to ensure that before elections are contemplated in Cambodia, the opposition members now in Thailand must feel it is safe to return and those members of First Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government responsible for grave human rights violations during and after the July 5-6 coup must be brought to justice.
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International Community Urged to Protect Cambodians and Condemn Coup
(New York) - Human Rights Watch today called on the international community to unequivocally condemn the coup in Cambodia on Saturday by Cambodian People’s Party leader and co-Prime Minister Hun Sen against his coalition partner, Prince Ranariddh of the royalist FUNCINPEC party, and to take all necessary measures to prevent the CPP from carrying out a massive purge of its opponents.
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CARAM and other NGOs have released this joint statement to congratulate the Cambodian government and ASEAN for ratifing the the protocol to protect and to protect migrant workers and for establishing the ASEAN Committee on the Implementation of the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers(ACMW).
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Enhancing Independent Media in Cambodia
To strengthen journalists’ practice of professional ethics in Cambodia, the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) is initiating a project in 2009 titled “Enhancing Independent Media in Cambodia,” with generous funding from the European Union
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World Bank Group implicated in illegal seizures of indigenous land in Cambodia and Laos: Cambodian indigenous communities call for Bank’s help to get their land back
(Phnom Penh, February 10, 2014) – Representatives of seventeen indigenous communities from Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province filed a complaint to the World Bank’s private lending arm today, describing illegal seizures of their farming and grazing land and destruction of their forests and sacred sites.
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