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Position of the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations to the Senate Election Process
The coalition of civil society organizations has noticed that the Senate and the National Assembly, who adopted the proposed law on election of members of the senate, plan to elect senators as a result of the votes of members of both the national assembly and commune council. The coalition of civil society organizatons, however, strongly regrets that recommendations of the coalition, electoral stakeholders, and political parties are not included in the Senate Election Law.
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Land Concession for Pine Tree Planting to Wuzhishan Company and Complaints Lodged by Phnong Tribe Communities in Mondulkiri Province
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), a coalition of 18 NGOs, is deeply concerned about the development plants of the Wuzhishan Company’s land concession in Mondulkiri Province. As currently described, their plans will violate the historic land, customs, traditions, and daily life of Phnong tribe communities in seven communes. In particular, the company’s intention to clear mare than 10,000 hectares of land to plant pine trees represents an illegal action that seriously impacts the livelihood of the tribes in the communes of Dakdam and Sen Monorum of oraing District.
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Civil Society Calls on Government to Fulfill its Agreement with UN and Contribute to Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Civil society is deeply saddened to hear that the Government now claims it cannot contribute its $13.3 million share to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) three-year budget. It declares that it can only give $1.5 million leaving a short fall of $ 11.8 million. It is interesting to note that the $ 4.4 million per year required from the Government to run the KRT amounts to only 0.5% of the Annual National budget of $ 792 million. This seems like a ridiculously small price to pay for the possible achievement fo justice and reconciliation for victims of the Khmer Rouge regime and for Cambodia as a whole.
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Private Farmers Assistance Program
In the fall of 2002, the PFAP program was evaluated by USAID. The Evaluation Team found that PFAP had successfully undertaken and implemented a wide and substantive array of activities. Very large numbers of rural residents had received training and technical advice in a variety of areas with many of the needed rural organizations also created andlor strengthened. New management, accounting and other systems in these organizations had been put into place, dozens of business plans had been prepared, additional credit had been provided and thousands of new land titles had been issued and hundreds of thousands registered.
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Appeal Court Verdict in Controversial Poipet Land Case Results in Death, Injuries
The Cambodian Human Rights Actions Committee (CHRAC), a collation of 18 human rights NGOs, strongly condemns the means of enforcement of the Banteay Mean Chey Provincial Appeals Court’s decision in a controversial Poipet land case. Enforcement lead to violence againgst villagers that resulted in six deaths. As well, six others are seriously injured three, 3 people have disappeared,and 29 people were arrested and released the same day.
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The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Word Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) and the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) will hold a media conference in Phnom Penh on April 28, 2005, on the occasion of the publication by the Observatory of its worldwide 2004 Annual report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders.
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International Standards for the Extraordinary Chambers for Prosecution of Crimes Committed During the Period of Democratic Kampuchea
We welcome the Royal Government of Cambodia and the International Community’s determination to ensure the fairness, credibility, independence and impartiality of the Extraordinary Chambers (EC). In order to achieve this, CHRAC and other members of civil society have made multiple requests on the above topics, yet many of our questions remain unanswered. The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), ADHOC and LICADHO held a meeting and discussed these issues with members of civil society on 2 – 3 March 2005 and again reiterated these requests in a press release on 15 April. CHRAC respectfully requests again today, as the second training course for judges and prosecutors begins, that the Royal Cambodian Government (RGC) and International Community (including the United Nations), kindly respond to the concerns of civil society.
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