• Cambodia: Release peaceful protesters detained over forced eviction

    Cambodia: Release peaceful protesters detained over forced eviction

    The Cambodian authorities must immediately release 24 women and six children detained yesterday while peacefully protesting their forced eviction. The group of 30 were arrested while protesting last week’s violent forced eviction of some 300 families from the poor Borei Keila neighbourhood of Phnom Penh.

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  • Detained Borei Keila Residents Must Be Released from Prey Speu Center

    Detained Borei Keila Residents Must Be Released from Prey Speu Center

    Phnom Penh (Jan. 12, 21012) - We, the undersigned civil society organizations, call for the immediate release of Borei Keila residents detained yesterday and since unlawfully detained at the Prey Speu Social Affairs Center. We also call for the permanent closure of the Prey Speu center, which has been preven time and again to be nothing more than an extra-judicial detention facility.

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  • Cambodia: Immediately appoint International Co-Investigating Judge at Khmer Rouge Tribunal

    Cambodia: Immediately appoint International Co-Investigating Judge at Khmer Rouge Tribunal

    Amnesty International calls for Cambodia’s Supreme Council of Magistracy to meet immediately and appoint reserve Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet as the Inernational Co-Investigating Judge at the Extraodinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). The appointment is required in accordance with the agreement establishing the Tribunal between the UN and Cambodia government.

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  • Cambodia: Immediately appoint International Co-Investigating Judge at Khmer Rouge Tribunal

    Cambodia: Immediately appoint International Co-Investigating Judge at Khmer Rouge Tribunal

    Amnesty International calls for Cambodia’s Supreme Council of Magistracy to meet immediately and appoint reserve Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet as the Inernational Co-Investigating Judge at the Extraodinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). The appointment is required in accordance with the agreement establishing the Tribunal between the UN and Cambodia government.

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  • Cambodia: Immediately appoint International Co-Investigating Judge at Khmer Rouge Tribunal

    Cambodia: Immediately appoint International Co-Investigating Judge at Khmer Rouge Tribunal

    Amnesty International calls for Cambodia’s Supreme Council of Magistracy to meet immediately and appoint reserve Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet as the Inernational Co-Investigating Judge at the Extraodinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). The appointment is required in accordance with the agreement establishing the Tribunal between the UN and Cambodia government.

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  • Cambodia: Immediately appoint International Co-Investigating Judge at Khmer Rouge Tribunal

    Cambodia: Immediately appoint International Co-Investigating Judge at Khmer Rouge Tribunal

    Amnesty International calls for Cambodia’s Supreme Council of Magistracy to meet immediately and appoint reserve Judge Laurent Kasper-Ansermet as the Inernational Co-Investigating Judge at the Extraodinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). The appointment is required in accordance with the agreement establishing the Tribunal between the UN and Cambodia government.

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  • Press Release of the First Meeting of ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

    Press Release of the First Meeting of ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

    The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) convened its First Meeting on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) from 08 - 09 January 2012 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. This was the first meeting under the Cambodian Chairmanship and chaired by H.E. Om Yentieng, Senior Minister and President of the Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC), the Cambodian Representative, the Chair of AICHR, in 2012.

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  • CCHR Welcomes First Draft of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration But Urges Full Transparency and Meaningful Consultation with All Stakeholders

    CCHR Welcomes First Draft of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration But Urges Full Transparency and Meaningful Consultation with All Stakeholders

    One of the key steps in the development of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (“ASEAN”) – creating an ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (“AHRD”) – is one stage closer to fruition. The first draft of the AHRD has now been completed and is set to come before the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (the “AICHR”) during its 11th meeting to be held on 8 and 9 January 2012 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. While CCHR welcomes the AICHR meeting and discussion of the AHRD, it calls upon the AICHR to ensure meaningful consultation with all stakeholders during the drafting process by making the draft AHRD available to the public as soon as possible.

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  • CCHR Welcomes First Draft of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration But Urges Full Transparency and Meaningful Consultation with All Stakeholders

    CCHR Welcomes First Draft of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration But Urges Full Transparency and Meaningful Consultation with All Stakeholders

    One of the key steps in the development of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (“ASEAN”) – creating an ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (“AHRD”) – is one stage closer to fruition. The first draft of the AHRD has now been completed and is set to come before the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (the “AICHR”) during its 11th meeting to be held on 8 and 9 January 2012 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. While CCHR welcomes the AICHR meeting and discussion of the AHRD, it calls upon the AICHR to ensure meaningful consultation with all stakeholders during the drafting process by making the draft AHRD available to the public as soon as possible.

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  • Press Release of the First Meeting of ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

    Press Release of the First Meeting of ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

    The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) convened its First Meeting on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) from 08 - 09 January 2012 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. This was the first meeting under the Cambodian Chairmanship and chaired by H.E. Om Yentieng, Senior Minister and President of the Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC), the Cambodian Representative, the Chair of AICHR, in 2012.

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  • Press Release of the First Meeting of ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

    Press Release of the First Meeting of ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

    The ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) convened its First Meeting on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) from 08 - 09 January 2012 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. This was the first meeting under the Cambodian Chairmanship and chaired by H.E. Om Yentieng, Senior Minister and President of the Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC), the Cambodian Representative, the Chair of AICHR, in 2012.

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  • CCHR Welcomes First Draft of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration But Urges Full Transparency and Meaningful Consultation with All Stakeholders

    CCHR Welcomes First Draft of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration But Urges Full Transparency and Meaningful Consultation with All Stakeholders

    One of the key steps in the development of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (“ASEAN”) – creating an ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (“AHRD”) – is one stage closer to fruition. The first draft of the AHRD has now been completed and is set to come before the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (the “AICHR”) during its 11th meeting to be held on 8 and 9 January 2012 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. While CCHR welcomes the AICHR meeting and discussion of the AHRD, it calls upon the AICHR to ensure meaningful consultation with all stakeholders during the drafting process by making the draft AHRD available to the public as soon as possible.

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