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Universal Periodic Review of Cambodia 18th Session January/February 2014
This submission was written by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights1 and the Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV (APN+),2 in collaboration with the Sexual Rights Initiative3 (SRI). This submission provides an overview of the general situation of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in Cambodia, looking at the legislative context.
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Media Invitation to Roundtable Discussion on Assessment on Preliminary Election Result and Finding on the Voting and Counting Processes 2013
(COMFREL) has a great honor to invite national and international media, UN Agencies, IOs, NGOs, and Embassies to attend a Roundtable Discussion on “Assessment on Preliminary Election Result and Finding on the Voting and Counting Processes 2013”.
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Local authorities forced local residents to provide thumb prints as to support the result of the July 28 election
We, a group of civil society, non-governmental organizations and members of situation room, are deeply disappoitned and strongly condemning the act of local authority in Phnom Penh and in some other provinces who have been forcing voters to provide their thumb prints in order to support the preliminary contesting-result of the July 28 election.
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More election related concerns: Local authorities coerce villagers to sign petition verifying election results
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) has received worrying reports from villagers at Sangkat Teuk Laak I in Phnom Penh that the local authorities have been pressuring the villagers into signing a petition that states that they agree with the election results
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A Symbol of Peace Turned Inside Out: Two Students Entrapped
August 19, 2013 – The Cambodian Community Legal Education Center (CLEC) and Cambodian League for the Promotion & Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) call on the authorities to drop all charges against students Tut Chanpanha and Sok Dalis. We similarly call for charges against small shop owner Lim Lypaeung and Hiv Borin to be dropped.
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CCHR expresses concerns regarding the NEC’s unwillingness to disclose original forms during the rechecking of election results
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) is concerned about the methods being used by the National Election Committee (“NEC”) to verify election results of the National Assembly elections held on 28 July 2013, and in particular with the lack of transparency regarding the original forms sealed in the so-called Safety Package “A.”
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A Reporter Briefly Detained by Police Chief After Taking Photographs of Police Officers at Work
A reporter was briefly detained on the morning of 15 August 2013, after he was discovered taking a series of photographs of police officials on duty in front of Khan Mean Chey police station. An individual, who identified himself as the station’s police chief, spoke rudely to the reporter and demanded that he delete all of the photographs that he had taken.
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