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CSOs condemn decision to find Boeng Kak land activist Yorm Bopha guilty following retrial
We, the undersigned civil society organizations (“CSOs”) condemn the decision made yesterday – 28 June 2016 – by the Appeal Court to find guilty for a second time Boeng Kak land rights activist Yorm Bopha, following a retrial in relation to an alleged attack on two motorbike taxi drivers in 2012. Yorm Bopha was given a three-year prison sentence, which will take into account the fourteen months and eighteen days she has already spent in prison, with the remainder of her sentence suspended.
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Legal Analysis of the Prosecution of Four Mother Nature Activists
On 17 August 2015, Mr. San Mala, Mr. Try Sovikea and Mr. Sim Somnang (the “detained charged persons”) were arrested and charged under Article 424 of the Criminal Code of the Kingdom of Cambodia (the “Penal Code”) with threatening to destroy property followed by an order. They have been detained since their arrest in Koh Kong’s provincial prison. On 05 February 2016, it became public that Mr. Alejandro Gonzalez-Davidson had been charged under Article 29 of the Penal Code with being an accomplice to the same offense.
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Urgent Appeal - The Observatory
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint partnership of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and FIDH, has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Cambodia.
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Human Rights Now calls for the immediate release of human rights defenders in Cambodia
Human Rights Now (HRN), a Tokyo-based international human rights NGO, expresses grave concern over the recent oppression of human rights defenders and political opposition in Cambodia. Four staff members of the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC), and a deputy secretary-general of Cambodia’s National Election Committee (NEC), have been imprisoned under spurious charges of “bribing a witness.” A United Nations (UN) official has been charged as an accomplice to the crime.
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European Union and Cambodian Government conclude their Ninth Joint Committee
The 9th EU-Cambodia Joint Committee was held in Phnom Penh, capital of the Kingdom of Cambodia, on 4 May 2016 and was preceded by subgroups on development cooperation, on institution building, administrative reform, legal and judicial reform, governance and human rights, and on trade. The Joint Committee was co-chaired by H.E. Mr. Ouch Borith, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia and by Mr. Ugo Astuto, Deputy Managing Director, Asia and Pacific of the European External Action Service.
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CCHR launches social media campaign to commemorate World Press Freedom Day
Today – 03 May 2016 - on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day (“WPFD”), the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) releases a series of infographics as part of a social media campaign to highlight the situation of press freedom and access to information in Cambodia. The social media campaign can be followed through our Facebook and Twitter accounts, and the infographics can be downloaded from our website.
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Civil Society Condemns Charging of Human Rights Defenders
We, the undersigned human rights and other civil society organisations, condemn in the strongest terms the politically-motivated charging of six human rights defenders from a Cambodian human rights group, the country’s National Election Committee (NEC) and the United Nation’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR).
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CSOs call upon authorities to immediately cease harassment of human rights defenders
We, the undersigned civil society organisations, strongly condemn the summonsing and interrogation of civil society members for conducting vital and legitimate activities to protect human rights. This amounts to an outrageous misuse of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) as a political tool to attack and intimidate civil society.
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Cambodian civil society organisations to focus on land rights to strengthen local communities’ ability to secure land threatened by commercial exploitation and infrastructure projects.
Despite some progress with land reform in Cambodia in the last 10 years, insecurity of land tenure remains widespread. Hardly a day goes by without the media reporting on land disputes and loss of livelihoods as people are forcibly displaced to make way for logging, industrial-scale farming, resource extraction and infrastructure projects. “This is one of Cambodia’s most persistent human rights and development challenges,” said Chak Sopheap, Executive Director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), adding that “land tenure security is the key to lifting millions out of poverty and food insecurity.”
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Civil society condemn the arrest of CNRP lawmaker Um Sam An
We, the undersigned civil society organizations, unreservedly condemn the arrest of Um Sam An, a Cambodian National Rescue Party (“CNRP”) member of the National Assembly, in the early hours of 11 April 2016 in Siem Reap province. Not only does the arrest plainly undermine the constitutional guarantee of immunity for members of the National Assembly, but it also signifies the shrinking democratic space and intolerance of political pluralism in Cambodia.
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Joint Statement of Civil Society Organizations Involved in Promoting Women’s Rights in Cambodia on the Case of “Ms. Khom Chandaraty” aka “Srey Mom”
We, members of CSOs involved in promoting women’s rights in Cambodia as named below, are very concerned on persistent occurrence of gender-based violence including the recent case of “Ms. Khom Chandaraty” aka “Srey Mom”, which social media and some local media have broadcasting her private life in great length. Currently, Srey Mom is summoned by the Phnom Penh Court on two separate criminal charges: False Testimony and on Prostitution on March 18, 2016.
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Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia Professor Rhona Smith
It is an honour and a pleasure for me to have undertaken my second mission to the Kingdom of Cambodia following my appointment by the United Nations Human Rights Council in March 2015 as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia. At the outset, I wish to thank the Royal Government of Cambodia for their invitation and cooperation extended before and during the mission.
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