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Human Rights Situation Report 2009
The year 2009 has been marked by an increase in restrictions on the freedom of expression, especially against politicians and representatives of civil society organizations critical of the Cambodian Government. Consequently, at least twenty-two complaints were filed by government officials against dissident politicians and civil organization representatives, with an additional twenty-five complaints against journalists. This year, the situation can be compared to 2005, although there has been a slight improvement in relation to sentencing in defamation cases. No one who has been accused of defamation charges has been jailed and the accused of other charges have been given more chances to escape overseas comparing to 2005. Notably, it has become a tendency to restrict this freedom right after the general elections and the formation of a new government. With new elections looming, the situation has been loosen. We expect, this time, that a similar tendency will be repeated.
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Annual Report 2008
CDPO knows that in order to reach the, Millennium Development Goals of the, Royal Government of Cambodia, the rights, of people with, disabilities must be protected, and promoted and they should be included, in all development programs. CDPO is, dedicated to, representing the voice of, people with disabilities in Cambodia. In 2008, CDPO operated 7 program areas, Policy and Legal, Representing the Voice of, Disabled People, Rights Awareness, Awareness Raising and Visibility, Advocacy, and Rights Protection, Organisational, Development, and Support to DPOs.
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Country For Sale Low Res English
Cambodia today is a country for sale. Having made their fortunes from logging much of the country’s forest resources, Cambodia’s elite have diversified their commercial interests to encompass other forms of state assets. These include land, fisheries, tropical islands and beaches, minerals and petroleum. The country is rapidly being parcelled up and sold off. Over the past 15 years, 45 per cent of the country’s land has been purchased by private interests. The economic wisdom of the sell-off has yet to be proven. The social and environmental consequences have already been devastating.
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Land and Housing Rights in Cambodia Parallel Report 2009
The Land and Housing Working Group( hereafter "the Working Group") comprised of Cambodia and international human rights organizations working in Cambodia which includes- Borderlands Cooperative, Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia (BABSEA), Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense Legal Education Center (CLEC),...
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Rights Abuses of Ethnic Khmer in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
This report documents ongoing violations of the rights of the Khmer Krom in southern Vietnam and also abuses in Cambodia against Khmer Krom who have fled there for refuge. Wary about possible Khmer Krom nationalist aspirations, Vietnam has suppressed peaceful expressions of dissent and banned Khmer Krom human rights publications. It also tightly controls the Theravada Buddhism practiced by the Khmer Krom, who see this form of Buddhism as the foundation of their distinct culture and ethnic identity.
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Access to Information in Southeast Asia and Cambodia
As Cambodia approaches nearly two decades as a post conflict society, establishing somesemblance of transparency, both in the public sector and the burgeoning private sector,remains a daunting, if not overwhelming task. Governmental bodies and the judicial/legal sector are still rife with corruption, nepotism, and cronyism. Political control and patronage networks also dominate these institutions, and their decision making and policy making processes are often shrouded in secrecy. A recent study by the Berlin-based Transparency International rated Cambodia the 14th most corrupt country in the world, five positions worse than its 2007 rating. According to the TI ratings, Cambodia is now in the unenviable position of being the most corrupt country in Asia after Myanmar.
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Human Rights Situation Report 2008
Military officials were increasingly involved in land conflicts with a threefold increase in the numbers of cases that featured members of the armed forces as parties to disputes (125 cases in 2008 compared to 40 in 2007).
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Database Report on Trafficking and Rape in Cambodia
This report presents data on trafficking for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation and rape in Cambodia for the period between January and December 2009, which were collected from 27participating NGOs.
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Cambodia - Amnesty International Report 2008
Some 150,000 Cambodians were known to live at risk of losing their homes as land disputes and land grabbing proliferated. Forced evictions of poor communities continued and victims had limited access to legal redress. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) continued to consolidate power and maintained a grip over the judiciary, where deep-seated shortcomings remained largely unchanged. After considerable delays, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC, Khmer Rouge Tribunal) became operational; five arrests and the first hearing took place.
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Annual Activity Report
continued to face a campaign of threats, intimidation and groundless legal actions to pressure them to give up their land. Since 2005, the 7NG company has been laying claim to the prime riverside land of Dey Krahorm in central Phnom Penh, based on an invalid contract it signed secretly with former community representatives. Faced with the threat of eviction and continued harassment, many residents agreed to the companys offer of alternative land at a relocation site outside of Phnom Penh or cash payments of far below the market value of their land. Other residents, however, remain on the site, struggling to retain their land or at least to obtain fair, market-price compensation for it.
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Plantations in the Mekong Region: Overview WRM Briefing, December 2008
Eucalyptus, oil palm, rubber and jatropha monoculture plantations are expanding onto local communities’ lands and forests in the Mekong region’s countries. Promoted under the guise of development, poverty alleviation and even climate change mitigation, such plantations are resulting in severe social and environmental impacts. In spite of the difficult political scenarios in which they are established, local peoples are resisting through whichever means are available to them, ranging from broad alliances against plantations (such as inThailand) to nascent clusters of local resistance against plantations in Cambodia and Laos.
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Respect for Housing, Land and Property Rights in Cambodia
In the countryside, home to approximately 85 per cent of the Cambodian population, landholdings are increasingly skewed, with hard-pressed subsistence farmers often forced to sell to urban speculators who hold large plots of arable land idle. Although rural land was relatively equitably distributed in the 1980s, landlessness subsequently mushroomed from in the late 1990s to in 2004. Meanwhile, programs meant to distribute land back to the rural poor have not been implemented. A prominent NGO, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, has seen land disputes rise to the human rights and social problem number one for rural Cambodians participating in its regular public forums.
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