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Technical Assistance and Capacity Building Report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Human Rights in Cambodia
The fourth mission to Cambodia of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights in Cambodia, from 1 to 10 December 2007, centred on the theme of the rule of law, including access to justice. The framework of the rule of law gives valuable insights into the legal, judicial and political system of a country. It is an appropriate focus because the rule of law is a key concept in the Constitution of Cambodia itself.
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Report Summary on Assessment of NGO Participation and Representation in Technical Workin Groups (TWGs)
Resettlement Action Network (RAN), a network of NGO Forum on Cambodia, conducted a field survey to study resettlement impacts caused by the National Road No.1 Improvement Project, currently implemented by the government of Cambodia with assistance from Japanese Official DevelopmentAssistance. The Project requires the resettlement of more than 1800 households, and RAN has raised serious concerns over the resettlement impacts of the Project.
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Condemnation of More Violence in Phnom Penh Land Cases
Cambodian and international human rights organizations are united in condemning two separate violent incidents, which have resulted in blood shed over land in Phnom Penh within the past 48 hours at the Reak Reay and Russey Keo communities. The Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), NGO Forum on Cambodia, LICADHO, Community Legal Education Centre (CLEC), Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) and Bridges Across Borders deplore these violent acts and call on the Royal Government of Cambodia to impose an immediate moratorium on evictions until effective legal protections are made available for persons affected by evictions.
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Role and Achievements of the OHCHR Cambodia
In carrying out its programme, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR or the Office) continued to be guided by Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005, 77, which invited the Secretary-General, agencies of the United Nations system present in Cambodia, as well as the international community, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), to continue to work with the Government of Cambodia in ensuring the protection and promotion of the human rights of all people in Cambodia.
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Violence Against CCAWDU Union Members at Kingsland Garment Factory Condemned
The Cambodian League for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (LICADHO) condemns the violent crackdown by authorities against workers on strike outside a Phnom Penh garment factory yesterday. At least 10 members of the Cambodia Confederation of Apparel Worker Democratic Unions (CCAWDU) were injured in the violence. Four were struck by vehicles leaving the factory at high speed, and the remainder beaten by police or military police officers.
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Human Rights Situation Report 2007
2007 saw the consequence of a serious division of the FUNCINPEC party, which led to its separation into two factions (the FUNCINPEC Party and the Norodom Ranaridh Party). The ex-party chief was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay a fine to the court. This had been preventing the prince from returning back to the country until recently. The separation has led to a serious decrease in the party’s popularity, which was observed during the last commune election (see key events).
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Chea Vichea, Born Samnang & Sok Sam Oeun - Justice Denied
Four years after the murder of trade union leader Chea Vichea and the wrongful arrests of Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun for that crime, Cambodian civil society organizations are deeply disappointed by the lack of justice in this case. The denial of justice to the family of Chea Vichea, and the continued imprisonment of Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun despite overwhelming evidence of their innocence, reflects poorly on the state of rule of law in Cambodia. The longer that this situation continues, the greater the injustice suffered by these individuals, and the greater the damage done to the reputation of Cambodia’s justice system.
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Cambodia: Release Scapegoats for Labor Leader’s Murder
(New York) - Four years after the murder of Cambodia’s most prominent labor union leader, Chea Vichea, six leading international human rights organizations and the world’s largest trade union federation called on the Cambodian authorities to exonerate and free the two men unfairly convicted for the crime.
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Military Police Brutality During Unlawful Land Grab
LICADHO condemns the actions of military police officers who have committed violence, including shooting two people, while assisting a private company to unlawfully grab villagers’ land in Kandal Stung district of Kandal province.
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Cambodia: A Bang on the Head of the Lawmakers Should be a Call for Justice for Victims of Land Grabbing
On 13 January 2008 at around 11:30 pm a lawmaker named Chin Kim Sreng, 70, from the ruling party, was brutally beaten on the head in front of his house in Boeung Kang Kang commune, Chamcar Mon district, Phnom Penh. Chin was knocked unconscious in the attack which caused open wounds to his head. He was rushed to the hospital for treatment.
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