• Annual Report 2009

    Annual Report 2009

    Since its restructuring, the Cambodian, Disabled People’s Organisation (CDPO), has stepped up significantly towards, making positive changes, to the lives of, persons with disabilities in Cambodia. It, has been a challenging time, working, towards the recognition of disabled peoples’ capabilities instead of, concentrating on their disabilities, and towards the gradual, improvement of their, quality of life and garnering respect for, their human rights.

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  • Annual Report 2009

    Annual Report 2009

    Awareness of disability legislation, CRPD, Discrimination, the DPOs movement, and rights abuse was raised on monthly Radio live, TV spot, and radio spot. The radio program was broadcast on Radio 106.5FM. Feedback from listeners was received by SMS to every program. CDPO produced TV and radio spots on the topic We Declare our Rights which were broadcast on local TV and radio stations. Awareness of People with Disabilities rights was raised at a public forum, three universities and pagodas were informed of disability issues and the rights of PwDs. The public forum about We Declare our Rights was gattended by 89 participants from DPOs, Federations,PWDs, UNOHCHR, NGOs, INGOs, ministries, and students and was highly presided by H.E Sem Sokha Secretary of State of MoSVY.

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  • Human Trafficking Survivors Train Cambodian Police and Government Officials

    Human Trafficking Survivors Train Cambodian Police and Government Officials

    (PRWEB) February 1, 2010 -- Cambodian human trafficking survivors will work with the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP) and the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT) Task Force to eradicate human trafficking. The survivors, part of the Somaly Mam Foundation’s Voices for Change (VFC) program, will train police and government officials on laws and issues related to sex trafficking and forced labor in Cambodia.

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  • Human Trafficking Survivors Train Cambodian Police and Government Officials

    Human Trafficking Survivors Train Cambodian Police and Government Officials

    (PRWEB) February 1, 2010 -- Cambodian human trafficking survivors will work with the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP) and the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT) Task Force to eradicate human trafficking. The survivors, part of the Somaly Mam Foundation’s Voices for Change (VFC) program, will train police and government officials on laws and issues related to sex trafficking and forced labor in Cambodia.

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  • The Right of Appeal and Cambodia Inmate Transportation Crisis

    The Right of Appeal and Cambodia Inmate Transportation Crisis

    Over 500 inmates with pending appeals are detained in Cambodias provinces, some of them hundreds of kilometers away from the nations only appeals court in Phnom Penh. Due to Cambodias near total lack of a long distance inmate transportation network, these inmates are at grave risk of being denied one of the most basic elements of a fair trial The right to have a conviction and sentence properly reviewed by a higher tribunal1.

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  • Annual Report 2009

    Annual Report 2009

    Since its restructuring, the Cambodian, Disabled People’s Organisation (CDPO), has stepped up significantly towards, making positive changes, to the lives of, persons with disabilities in Cambodia. It, has been a challenging time, working, towards the recognition of disabled peoples’ capabilities instead of, concentrating on their disabilities, and towards the gradual, improvement of their, quality of life and garnering respect for, their human rights.

    Read More
  • Human Trafficking Survivors Train Cambodian Police and Government Officials

    Human Trafficking Survivors Train Cambodian Police and Government Officials

    (PRWEB) February 1, 2010 -- Cambodian human trafficking survivors will work with the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP) and the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT) Task Force to eradicate human trafficking. The survivors, part of the Somaly Mam Foundation’s Voices for Change (VFC) program, will train police and government officials on laws and issues related to sex trafficking and forced labor in Cambodia.

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  • Human Trafficking Survivors Train Cambodian Police and Government Officials

    Human Trafficking Survivors Train Cambodian Police and Government Officials

    (PRWEB) February 1, 2010 -- Cambodian human trafficking survivors will work with the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP) and the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT) Task Force to eradicate human trafficking. The survivors, part of the Somaly Mam Foundation’s Voices for Change (VFC) program, will train police and government officials on laws and issues related to sex trafficking and forced labor in Cambodia.

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  • The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Cambodia

    The Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Cambodia

    A coalition of NGOs and community groups working with indigenous peoples in Cambodia submit this report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (“the Committee”) for consideration at its 76th Session. In doing this submission, the definition of racial discrimination as set out in Article 1(1) of the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (“ICERD”) has been used: “any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.” We observe that the Committee has repeatedly affirmed that ICERD applies to discrimination against indigenous peoples1 and “that all appropriate means must be taken to combat and eliminate such discrimination.”2 3. We note that the Cambodian Constitution states that all Cambodians have the “same rights, freedom and fulfilling the same obligations regardless of race, colour, sex, language, religious belief, political tendency, birth origin, social status, wealth or other status”. We also sincerely thank the Cambodian government for its role in ending civil war in Cambodia, something that was a severe and extreme violation of indigenous and non‐indigenous peoples’ rights, and establishing this constitution based on equity. 4. There are, however, actions and laws which have the effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples. This submission explains that, despite provisions to safeguard indigenous peoples’ land, customs, language and culture, discrimination against indigenous peoples in Cambodia, in effect, remains persistent and institutionalized. Specifically outlined in this report is the discrimination against indigenous peoples’ groups that has resulted from removing rights through legislation and use of the judiciary; land and resource alienation resulting in forced displacement; limitations on the right to selfdetermination; inadequate provision of appropriate education; and unrealized rights to health.

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  • Annual Report 2009

    Annual Report 2009

    Since its restructuring, the Cambodian, Disabled People’s Organisation (CDPO), has stepped up significantly towards, making positive changes, to the lives of, persons with disabilities in Cambodia. It, has been a challenging time, working, towards the recognition of disabled peoples’ capabilities instead of, concentrating on their disabilities, and towards the gradual, improvement of their, quality of life and garnering respect for, their human rights.

    Read More
  • Annual Report 2009

    Annual Report 2009

    Since its restructuring, the Cambodian, Disabled People’s Organisation (CDPO), has stepped up significantly towards, making positive changes, to the lives of, persons with disabilities in Cambodia. It, has been a challenging time, working, towards the recognition of disabled peoples’ capabilities instead of, concentrating on their disabilities, and towards the gradual, improvement of their, quality of life and garnering respect for, their human rights.

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