• Results of voter scoring on the fulfillment of elected official’s performance against priority benchmarks for Siem Reap Province

    Results of voter scoring on the fulfillment of elected official’s performance against priority benchmarks for Siem Reap Province

    A sample of 85 voters ‘Almost’ or ‘Completed’ (81 to 100%) from districts in Siem Reap province (36% women) representative of communities including: forestry, fisheries non-governmental organizations, businesspersons, civil servants, students, and farmers reported on their satisfaction with the performance of Siem Reap’s elected officials in implementing the priority benchmarks for the province. In the majority of cases these benchmarks were felt to be ‘not at all’ or ‘slightly achieved’.

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  • Results of voter scoring on the fulfillment of elected official’s performance against priority benchmarks for Siem Reap Province

    Results of voter scoring on the fulfillment of elected official’s performance against priority benchmarks for Siem Reap Province

    A sample of 85 voters ‘Almost’ or ‘Completed’ (81 to 100%) from districts in Siem Reap province (36% women) representative of communities including: forestry, fisheries non-governmental organizations, businesspersons, civil servants, students, and farmers reported on their satisfaction with the performance of Siem Reap’s elected officials in implementing the priority benchmarks for the province. In the majority of cases these benchmarks were felt to be ‘not at all’ or ‘slightly achieved’.

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  • Statement of Press and Quick Reaction Unit of the office of the Council of Ministers

    Statement of Press and Quick Reaction Unit of the office of the Council of Ministers

    The most recent Attack on Cambodia from Radio Free Asia (RFA) came in from of an editorial comment is its broadcast of January 14 and re-aired on Monday morning 17 January 2011. That editorial used as its pretext the 26th Anniversary of the leadership of the Prime Minister, Samdach Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, who become Prime Minister of Cambodia on January 14, 1985. In fact, it is the opening guns by opposition parties and other critics of the Royal Government of the next national election campaign, slated for mid-2013.

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  • Human Rights Defender faces accusation by Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court

    Human Rights Defender faces accusation by Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court

    The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) disagrees with Court’s decision to accuse Mr. Sam Chankea and charge Mr. Reach Seymar – a citizen from Lor Peang village - of Defamation, as stated in Article 63 of UNTAC Penal Code and Article 305 of the new Penal Code. ADHOC considers the court’s decision as unfair and unacceptable.

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  • Human Rights Defender faces accusation by Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court

    Human Rights Defender faces accusation by Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court

    The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) disagrees with Court’s decision to accuse Mr. Sam Chankea and charge Mr. Reach Seymar – a citizen from Lor Peang village - of Defamation, as stated in Article 63 of UNTAC Penal Code and Article 305 of the new Penal Code. ADHOC considers the court’s decision as unfair and unacceptable.

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  • Human Rights Defender faces accusation by Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court

    Human Rights Defender faces accusation by Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court

    The Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) disagrees with Court’s decision to accuse Mr. Sam Chankea and charge Mr. Reach Seymar – a citizen from Lor Peang village - of Defamation, as stated in Article 63 of UNTAC Penal Code and Article 305 of the new Penal Code. ADHOC considers the court’s decision as unfair and unacceptable.

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  • Results of voter scoring on the fulfillment of elected official’s performance against priority benchmarks for Siem Reap Province

    Results of voter scoring on the fulfillment of elected official’s performance against priority benchmarks for Siem Reap Province

    A sample of 85 voters ‘Almost’ or ‘Completed’ (81 to 100%) from districts in Siem Reap province (36% women) representative of communities including: forestry, fisheries non-governmental organizations, businesspersons, civil servants, students, and farmers reported on their satisfaction with the performance of Siem Reap’s elected officials in implementing the priority benchmarks for the province. In the majority of cases these benchmarks were felt to be ‘not at all’ or ‘slightly achieved’.

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  • Statement of Press and Quick Reaction Unit of the office of the Council of Ministers

    Statement of Press and Quick Reaction Unit of the office of the Council of Ministers

    The most recent Attack on Cambodia from Radio Free Asia (RFA) came in from of an editorial comment is its broadcast of January 14 and re-aired on Monday morning 17 January 2011. That editorial used as its pretext the 26th Anniversary of the leadership of the Prime Minister, Samdach Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, who become Prime Minister of Cambodia on January 14, 1985. In fact, it is the opening guns by opposition parties and other critics of the Royal Government of the next national election campaign, slated for mid-2013.

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  • Cambodia: Draft NGO Law

    Cambodia: Draft NGO Law

    Question: Has the government of Cambodia started to make laws that place limits on NGOs operating in country? What sort of limits? How is this affecting NGO programs?

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  • Cambodia: Draft NGO Law

    Cambodia: Draft NGO Law

    Question: Has the government of Cambodia started to make laws that place limits on NGOs operating in country? What sort of limits? How is this affecting NGO programs?

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  • Cambodia: Draft NGO Law

    Cambodia: Draft NGO Law

    Question: Has the government of Cambodia started to make laws that place limits on NGOs operating in country? What sort of limits? How is this affecting NGO programs?

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  • Overview Freedom in the World 2010 Survey Release

    Overview Freedom in the World 2010 Survey Release

    On January 12, Freedom House released its findings from the latest edition of Freedom in the World, the annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties. According to the survey’s findings, 2009 marked the fourth consecutive year in which global freedom suffered a decline—the longest consecutive period of setbacks for freedom in the nearly 40-year history of the report. These declines were most pronounced in Sub-Saharan Africa, although they also occurred in most other regions of the world. Furthermore, the erosion in freedom took place during a year marked by intensified repression against human rights defenders and democracy activists by many of the world’s most powerful authoritarian regimes, including Russia and China.

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