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Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials Adopted by General Assembly resolution 34/169 of 17 December 1979
Law enforcement officials shall at all times fulfil the duty imposed upon them by law, by serving the community and by protecting all persons against illegal acts, consistent with the high degree of responsibility required by their profession.
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CSOs call for an End to Impunity in Cambodia on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists
To mark the United Nations’ second International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists,rnwe, the undersigned civil society organizations (“CSOs”), call upon the Royal Government ofrnCambodia to bring an end to Cambodia’s rampant culture of impunity, and to ensure that thernperpetrators of human rights violations are brought to justice.
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CCHR to launch campaign to end impunity entitled “Never Forget”
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) will mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists by launching the “Never Forget” campaign, a weeklong series of activities highlighting the issue of impunity in Cambodia. The campaign will launch at 4pm on Monday 02 November at FCC’s The Mansion, Sisowath Quay.
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Condemnation of Violence against Members of Fifth Mandate National Assembly
Cambodian civil society organizations (CSOs) and social commentators are deeply distressed and condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent violent attacks against CNRP members of National Assembly (NA). The attacks were carried out on 26th October 2015 at 12:30 pm, at south of the National Assembly building. At least three people were seriously attacked or injured, two of which were CNRP MPs, and also their properties were vandalized.
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Civil Society Condemns Violence Against Cambodian Opposition MPs
October 27, 2015 - ADHOC, CCHR, CCIM, CLEC, STT and LICADHO strongly condemn yesterday’s violence outside the National Assembly, and at the gate of an opposition leader that left two opposition CNRP MPs injured and bloodied, and call for an immediate independent and transparent investigation into the orchestrated violence. We further express deep concerns over the lack of police action to control a related gathering in front of Kem Sokha’s house, which was surrounded yesterday afternoon by several hundred individuals, some of who threw rocks at the front gates while others were heard calling for even further violence.
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Civil Society Condemns Violence Against Cambodian Opposition MPs
October 27, 2015 - ADHOC, CCHR, CCIM, CLEC, STT and LICADHO strongly condemn yesterday’s violence outside the National Assembly, and at the gate of an opposition leader that left two opposition CNRP MPs injured and bloodied, and call for an immediate independent and transparent investigation into the orchestrated violence. We further express deep concerns over the lack of police action to control a related gathering in front of Kem Sokha’s house, which was surrounded yesterday afternoon by several hundred individuals, some of who threw rocks at the front gates while others were heard calling for even further violence.
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CCHR, ICCO, and PLCPD Launch the Tri-Sector Forum on Business and Human Rights
The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”), the Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation (“ICCO”), and the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (“PLPCD”) are delighted to announce the launch of the Tri-sector Forum on Business and Human Rights regional conference at the Imperial Garden Villa Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on 27-28 October 2015.
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Joint UN statement on Ending violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people
On 29 September 2015, 12 UN entities (ILO, OHCHR, UNAIDS Secretariat, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNODC, UN Women, WFP and WHO) released an unprecedented joint statement calling for an end to violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people. The statement is a powerful call to action to Governments to do more to tackle homophobic and transphobic violence and discrimination and abuses against intersex people, and an expression of the commitment on the part of UN entities to support Member States to do so.
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“The World Bank is a Human Rights-Free Zone” – UN expert on extreme poverty expresses deep concern
GENEVA (29 September 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, has called on the World Bank and its member States to adopt a new and consistent approach to human rights. “For most purposes, the World Bank is currently a human rights-free zone. In its operational policies, in particular, it treats human rights more like an infectious disease than universal values and obligations,” Alston says in a new report* published online on the approach to human rights by the World Bank, the most important international actor on poverty alleviation. The report, which will be officially presented to the UN General Assembly on 23 October, explains that the biggest single obstacle to better integrate human rights into the work of the World Bank is “the anachronistic and inconsistent interpretation of the ‘political prohibition’ contained in the Bank’s Articles of Agreement.” “They invoke the Articles of Agreement, which were adopted in 1945, and argue that this clause not to interfere in States’ political affairs effectively prohibits the Bank from engaging with issues of human rights,” the expert says. However, he stresses, “these Articles were written more than 70 years ago, when there was no international catalogue of human rights, no specific treaty obligations upon States, and not a single international institution addressing these issues.”
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CSOs and Businesses welcome Government support for LGBT rights and call for clarity in Cambodian law
We, the undersigned civil society organizations (“CSOs”) and businesses, warmly welcome the words of Royal Government of Cambodia (“RGC”) spokesman Phay Siphan, who on Friday, 25 September expressed support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (“LGBT”) people in the Kingdom of Cambodia (“Cambodia”) and stated that same-sex marriages are already legally available in the Kingdom.
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New Sustainable Development Goals: UN expert urges Governments to announce plans on education
GENEVA (28 September 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Kishore Singh, today called on all UN Member States to announce without delay their plans to realize the right to education in line with the new Agenda for Sustainable Development, which aims to end poverty by 2030 and universally promote shared economic prosperity, social development and environmental protection. Welcoming the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals -the successor to the Millennium Development Goals- in New York on Sunday, he noted that “political commitments made by governments to education goals in future development agenda will remain hollow unless governments take real action to expand educational opportunities and restore public confidence in good quality public education.” “This is all the more important as education is a key instrument to eradicate poverty, and for achieving any of the new development goals,” the human rights expert stressed. The Special Raporteur emphasized that achieving free, universal secondary education of good quality, to which international community is committed, cannot happen unless governments’ investment in education is significantly enhanced. “This will require new investments, as well as ensuring existing funds are well spent,” he said. “These goals expand free, universal education to the secondary level, and call for full equality between boys and girls. These commitments require not just financial support, but bold political actions to address the barriers which have kept many children out of school,” Mr. Singh added. - See more at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16512&LangID=E#sthash.2icU6LdE.dpuf
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