• Freedom House Exposes World’s Worst Human Rights Abusers

    Freedom House Exposes World’s Worst Human Rights Abusers

    Freedom House today released Worst of the Worst 2011: The World’s Most Repressive Societies, its annual report identifying the world’s most flagrant human rights abusers, at a press conference during the 17th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

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  • To mark International Children’s Day, CCHR urges Cambodia to reflect on the child victims of rape

    To mark International Children’s Day, CCHR urges Cambodia to reflect on the child victims of rape

    The Cambodian Center for Human Rights marks International Children’s Day, held today, by launching the findings of a study into rape cases in Cambodia on the Cambodian Human Rights Portal, www.sithi.org. The study presents information on all forms of rape committed throughout the Kingdom including, and of particular interest to International Children’s Day, those perpetrated against child victims.

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  • International Special Rapporteurs for Free Expression Call for Internet Speech Rights

    International Special Rapporteurs for Free Expression Call for Internet Speech Rights

    The new declaration calls on national governments and other parties to respect freedom of expression in internet communications. It reminds governments that international human rights rules on freedom of expression apply to internet communications, and that it is necessary to develop tailored approaches which emphasises speech rather than simply applying traditional rules on media.

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  •  To mark International Children’s Day, CCHR urges Cambodia to reflect on the child victims of rape

    To mark International Children’s Day, CCHR urges Cambodia to reflect on the child victims of rape

    The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), a non-aligned, independent, non-governmental organization that works to promote and protect democracy and respect for human rights in Cambodia, marks International Children’s Day,1 June 2011,by launching the findings of a study into rape cases in Cambodia on the Cambodian Human Rights Portal, www.sithi.org. The study presents information on all forms of rape committed throughout the Kingdom including, and of particular interest to International Children’s Day, those perpetrated against child victims.

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  •  To mark International Children’s Day, CCHR urges Cambodia to reflect on the child victims of rape

    To mark International Children’s Day, CCHR urges Cambodia to reflect on the child victims of rape

    The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), a non-aligned, independent, non-governmental organization that works to promote and protect democracy and respect for human rights in Cambodia, marks International Children’s Day,1 June 2011,by launching the findings of a study into rape cases in Cambodia on the Cambodian Human Rights Portal, www.sithi.org. The study presents information on all forms of rape committed throughout the Kingdom including, and of particular interest to International Children’s Day, those perpetrated against child victims.

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  • Excessive Detention is a Violation of Children’s Rights

    Excessive Detention is a Violation of Children’s Rights

    While there is certainly much to celebrate, International Children’s Day also serves as an occasion to reflect on the challenges still facing children in Cambodia. Legal Aid of Cambodia would like to express its concern for the excessive detention of children in correctional centers.

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  • To mark International Children’s Day, CCHR urges Cambodia to reflect on the child victims of rape

    To mark International Children’s Day, CCHR urges Cambodia to reflect on the child victims of rape

    The Cambodian Center for Human Rights marks International Children’s Day, held today, by launching the findings of a study into rape cases in Cambodia on the Cambodian Human Rights Portal, www.sithi.org. The study presents information on all forms of rape committed throughout the Kingdom including, and of particular interest to International Children’s Day, those perpetrated against child victims.

    Read More
  • Freedom House Exposes World’s Worst Human Rights Abusers

    Freedom House Exposes World’s Worst Human Rights Abusers

    Freedom House today released Worst of the Worst 2011: The World’s Most Repressive Societies, its annual report identifying the world’s most flagrant human rights abusers, at a press conference during the 17th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

    Read More
  • Getting away with Murder

    Getting away with Murder

    Russia and Mexico, two of the world’s most murderous countries for the press, are heading in different directions in combating deadly anti-press violence, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found in its newly updated Impunity Index. The index, which calculates unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country’s population, found improvement in Russia as journalist murders ebbed and prosecutors obtained two high-profile convictions.

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  • International Special Rapporteurs for Free Expression Call for Internet Speech Rights

    International Special Rapporteurs for Free Expression Call for Internet Speech Rights

    The new declaration calls on national governments and other parties to respect freedom of expression in internet communications. It reminds governments that international human rights rules on freedom of expression apply to internet communications, and that it is necessary to develop tailored approaches which emphasises speech rather than simply applying traditional rules on media.

    Read More
  • Worst of the Worst 2011: The World’s Most Repressive Societies

    Worst of the Worst 2011: The World’s Most Repressive Societies

    Freedom House has prepared this special report entitled Worst of the Worst: The World’s Most Repressive Societies, as a companion to its annual survey on the state of global political rights and civil liberties, Freedom in the World.

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  • International Special Rapporteurs for Free Expression Call for Internet Speech Rights

    International Special Rapporteurs for Free Expression Call for Internet Speech Rights

    The new declaration calls on national governments and other parties to respect freedom of expression in internet communications. It reminds governments that international human rights rules on freedom of expression apply to internet communications, and that it is necessary to develop tailored approaches which emphasises speech rather than simply applying traditional rules on media.

    Read More

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