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Untitled Tenure Insecurity and Inequality in the Cambodia Land Sector
This report concludes that particular aspects of the design and a lack of effective implementation of key parts of LMAP have resulted in a system that excludes those vulnerable to eviction and other land rights abuses, impeding the project from improving tenure security in an equitable manner. A recent World Bank Enhanced Review Mission (ERM) concluded that although the project has resulted in undisputed benefits.
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Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Advisory Services and Technical Assistance for Cambodia
The present report is submitted in accordance with decision 9/15 of the Human Rights Council. The present Special Rapporteur was appointed with effect from 1 May 2009 and he undertook his first mission to Cambodia a month later, from 16 to 26 June 2009. Given the lack of time to conduct an in-depth assessment of the situation of human rights in the country so as to be able to report about it in a credible manner, the Special Rapporteur decided that he would focus his first mission on familiarizing himself with the complex realities of the country, to re-establish conditions for a fruitful dialogue with the Government on human rights issues of concern, and to look for ways to strengthen cooperation between the Government, civil society representatives and the international community around these issues.
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Cambodia: Legal Coundation and Framework for the Country’s Judiciary Required
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to bring to the attention of the Human Rights Council a major lacuna that constitutes one of the most fundamental obstacles to the enjoyment, protection and promotion of human rights in Cambodia. The lack of the required laws on the statute of judges and prosecutors as well as the lack of the legal underpinning to the organisation of the judiciary are resulting in the judiciary not functioning effectively. This crucial institution is fundamental to the actualisation of human rights and remains ineffective and lacking in independence and capacity to function.
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URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in the People’s Republic of China.
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URGENT ACTION 160 FAMILIES HAVE ONE WEEK TO DISMANTLE HOMES
Two villages in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, have received an official notice that they will have to leave their homes within seven days, as a private company is redeveloping the site for tourism and commercial purposes. Around 160 families have been ordered to move from the area without adequate alternative housing or fair and just compensation being provided.
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Cambodia: Another Case of a Court Being Used to Silence Human Rights Defenders
Recently, a Rattanakiri provincial court judge, Thor Saran, made a recommendation to a human rights NGO, ADHOC, to remove its prominent human rights defender named Pen Bonnar from the province where he had been working for some ten years. Judge Thor Saran said Pen Bonnar and his colleague, Chhay Ty, were under investigation for incitement and defamation, two criminal offences punishable respectively by up to five years’ imprisonment and by a fine of up to US$2,500.
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Trial of H.E. Cheam Channy, SRP Member of Parliament
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), a coalition of 18 local NGOs, closely followed the trial proceedings at the Military Court on August 8th, 2005 to try H.E. Cheam Channy, a member of parliament from the opposition party.
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