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United Nations Experts to Review Cambodia Compliance with Human Rights Covenant
On Monday and Tuesday, the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights will question a Cambodian Government delegation on its performance on a range of human rights issues, including poverty reduction, health, education, labor, housing and food. Natalie Bugalski, Legal Officer at the Centre on Housing Rights Evictions (COHRE), said The examination of the Government by eighteen independent experts and jurists of the United Nations over the next two days is extremely significant. The conclusions of the UN Committee will provide an impartial assessment of Cambodia‟s compliance with its international law obligations with respect to economic, social and cultural rights.
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UN Expert Urges Cambodia to Refrain From More Forced Evictions
I am extremely concerned about the threatened evitction of nearly one hundred families in Phnom Penh, the so-called"Group 78". I have once again addressed the Cambodian authorities to remind them that the pattern of evictions, affecting many of the poor, in the country- and the apparent lack of due process in that regard - suggests they may be tolerating, or even perpetrating, the forced evictions prohibited by international human rights standards.
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Cambodia End Threats to Opposition Lawmaker
In a speech on April 29, 2009, Hun Sen said that it would be “as easy as ABC” to have the parliamentary immunity lifted for Mu Sochua, a National Assembly member. This would permit the government to bring criminal charges against her and prosecute her for publicly criticizing the prime minister. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned Sochua to court on May 7.
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Cambodia: End Threats to Opposition Lawmaker One of Parliament’s Few Women Faces Criminal Defamation Suit
(New York) - Prime Minister Hun Sen and other senior members of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) should stop threatening to orchestrate the removal of lawmakers’ parliamentary immunity in order to silence government critics, Human Rights Watch said today.In a speech on April 29, 2009, Hun Sen said that it would be "as easy as ABC" to have the parliamentary immunity lifted for Mu Sochua, a National Assembly member. This would permit the government to bring criminal charges against her and prosecute her for publicly criticizing the prime minister. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned Sochua to court on May 7.
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OHCHR statement on Press Freedom
The High Commissioner for Human Rights stressed today that the safety and protection of journalists are indispensable bases for the full protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. OHCHR welcomes that journalists in Cambodia do not routinely face prison sentences for their professional activities, but it is clear that serious restrictions continue to limit press freedom and freedom of expression.
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2009 LICADHO Report: Cambodia’s Media Continues to be Attacked, Threatened and Censored
Cambodia’s media is often described as one of the freest in the region, especially relative to the likes of Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos or China where the media is all but controlled by the government1. But the reality is that Cambodia’s media still exists in a repressive environment where the government controls the majority of the media. Those that it does not control, it is not afraid to attack, threaten or censor.
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Recent Developments at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
Ominous signs of political manipulation by the Cambodian government and a repeated failure to tackle corruption continue to plague the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, according to this report released by the Open Society Justice Initiative. With the court’s first trial underway, the judicial process will be discredited unless the government reverses course.
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Land Grabbing and Poverty in Cambodia
Social Land Concessions continue to be established illegally in fact, not a single one has been completed in accordance with the relevant laws and perversely have been used to steal land from the poor rather than provide it to them. The Cambodian military continues to be involved in evictions, in contravention of the law, as well as heavily implicated in landgrabbing for their own benefit.
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Restrictions on the Freedom of Expression in Cambodia Media
Cambodia does not have a free media in the true sense of the word. Freedom of expression in law requires freedom of expression in practice. And maintaining freedom of expression requires the proper investigation of abuses when they occur. But as this briefing paper shows, intimidation by the powerful and well-connected continued during the 15-month period under review (January 1, 2008 to March 31, 2009), as did a lack of investigation of cases in which journalists were attacked or threatened in the course of doing their jobs.
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Land Grabbing and Poverty in Cambodia The Myth of Development 2009
The excuse invariably trotted out by the government whenever another group of people are forcibly evicted from the homes they have occupied for years, and sent to a distant relocation site lacking the basic amenities for living, or lose the farmland that has sustained their families for generations, is that this is necessary for development.
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Preah Vihear, Kingdom of Cambodia – Legal Analysis of the Events of 3 April 2009 that Resulted in the Destruction of a Village and Damage to the Preah Vihear Temple
A short report produced by CCHR to analyze the international legal implications of the events of 3 April 2009 at the Temple of Preah Vihear, which saw the village known as Psar Cheung Prasat completely destroyed and the Preah Vihear Temple damaged by the armed forces of the Kingdom of Thailand.
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