• Cambodia: Restrictive Draft NGO Law an Urgent Cause for Concern

    Cambodia: Restrictive Draft NGO Law an Urgent Cause for Concern

    Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) urgently appeal to bi-lateral and multilateral governments and institutions to condemn this Law and to call upon theCambodian government to stop its formalisation process.

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  • Cambodia: Withdraw Flawed Draft NGO and Assocation Law Revised Draft Does Not Address Rights Concerns

    Cambodia: Withdraw Flawed Draft NGO and Assocation Law Revised Draft Does Not Address Rights Concerns

    Cambodia’s draft law regulating associations and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should be abandoned because it will undermine rather than promote civil society in the country, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Forum-Asia, Global Witness, Southeast Asia Press Alliance, Frontline Defenders, and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders said today. On April 6, a total of 62 international organizations working in Cambodia called upon the country’s international donors to make strong public and private statements opposing passage of a law that poses the most significant threat to the country’s civil society in many years.

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  • Cambodia: Restrictive Draft NGO Law an Urgent Cause for Concern

    Cambodia: Restrictive Draft NGO Law an Urgent Cause for Concern

    Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) urgently appeal to bi-lateral and multilateral governments and institutions to condemn this Law and to call upon theCambodian government to stop its formalisation process.

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  • Cambodia: Withdraw Flawed Draft NGO and Assocation Law Revised Draft Does Not Address Rights Concerns

    Cambodia: Withdraw Flawed Draft NGO and Assocation Law Revised Draft Does Not Address Rights Concerns

    Cambodia’s draft law regulating associations and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should be abandoned because it will undermine rather than promote civil society in the country, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Forum-Asia, Global Witness, Southeast Asia Press Alliance, Frontline Defenders, and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders said today. On April 6, a total of 62 international organizations working in Cambodia called upon the country’s international donors to make strong public and private statements opposing passage of a law that poses the most significant threat to the country’s civil society in many years.

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  • Cambodia: Withdraw Flawed Draft NGO and Assocation Law Revised Draft Does Not Address Rights Concerns

    Cambodia: Withdraw Flawed Draft NGO and Assocation Law Revised Draft Does Not Address Rights Concerns

    Cambodia’s draft law regulating associations and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should be abandoned because it will undermine rather than promote civil society in the country, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Forum-Asia, Global Witness, Southeast Asia Press Alliance, Frontline Defenders, and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders said today. On April 6, a total of 62 international organizations working in Cambodia called upon the country’s international donors to make strong public and private statements opposing passage of a law that poses the most significant threat to the country’s civil society in many years.

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  • Cambodia: Withdraw Flawed Draft NGO and Assocation Law Revised Draft Does Not Address Rights Concerns

    Cambodia: Withdraw Flawed Draft NGO and Assocation Law Revised Draft Does Not Address Rights Concerns

    Cambodia’s draft law regulating associations and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should be abandoned because it will undermine rather than promote civil society in the country, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Forum-Asia, Global Witness, Southeast Asia Press Alliance, Frontline Defenders, and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders said today. On April 6, a total of 62 international organizations working in Cambodia called upon the country’s international donors to make strong public and private statements opposing passage of a law that poses the most significant threat to the country’s civil society in many years.

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  • Cambodia: Restrictive Draft NGO Law an Urgent Cause for Concern

    Cambodia: Restrictive Draft NGO Law an Urgent Cause for Concern

    Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) urgently appeal to bi-lateral and multilateral governments and institutions to condemn this Law and to call upon theCambodian government to stop its formalisation process.

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  • Human Rights Council Elections - NGO campaign concerning Syria’s bid

    Human Rights Council Elections - NGO campaign concerning Syria’s bid

    As nongovernmental organizations working to promote human rights at the UN Human Rights Council, we are deeply concerned that the Asia group has endorsed a slate of four candidates that includes Syria for the four Asia vacancies on the council this year.

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  • Human Rights Council Elections - NGO campaign concerning Syria’s bid

    Human Rights Council Elections - NGO campaign concerning Syria’s bid

    As nongovernmental organizations working to promote human rights at the UN Human Rights Council, we are deeply concerned that the Asia group has endorsed a slate of four candidates that includes Syria for the four Asia vacancies on the council this year.

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  • Human Rights Council Elections - NGO campaign concerning Syria’s bid

    Human Rights Council Elections - NGO campaign concerning Syria’s bid

    As nongovernmental organizations working to promote human rights at the UN Human Rights Council, we are deeply concerned that the Asia group has endorsed a slate of four candidates that includes Syria for the four Asia vacancies on the council this year.

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  • Human Rights Council Elections - NGO campaign concerning Syria’s bid

    Human Rights Council Elections - NGO campaign concerning Syria’s bid

    As nongovernmental organizations working to promote human rights at the UN Human Rights Council, we are deeply concerned that the Asia group has endorsed a slate of four candidates that includes Syria for the four Asia vacancies on the council this year.

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  • Proposed Cambodian NGO Law Fundamentally Flawed and Should be Abandoned

    Proposed Cambodian NGO Law Fundamentally Flawed and Should be Abandoned

    Cambodia’s proposed law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) contains provisions that place troubling restrictions on the ability of NGOs to organize and function effectively. Freedom House calls on the Cambodian government to abandon the law in its current version as it is fundamentally flawed.

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