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Cambodia/Vietnam: Montagnard Asylum Rights Threatened
(New York) Human Rights Watch today expressed strong concern about Cambodia’s announcement that it will close down two refugee camps and cease protecting and providing temporary asylum for indigenous Montagnard refugees from Vietnam.
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Policy Paper on Social Concessions in the Kingdom of Cambodia
Land concessions for social purposes (social land concessions) is a legal mechanism established in the Land Law 2001 to permit the orderly transfer of State private land to private individuals or groups for social purposes, specifically, for residential and family farming .
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CAMBOW Stresses the Need to Address Human Trafficking
Urgent action is needed by the government, police and courts to tackle the growing problem of human trafficking, according to the Cambodian Committee of Women (CAMBOW), a coalition of 33 local NGOs working on women’s issues.
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CHRAC Unsatisfied with Montagnard Repatriation Agreement
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), a coalition of 18 local human rights NGOs, wishes to express its dissatisfaction with the tripartite agreement reached on 21 January 2002 between the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Royal Government of Cambodia and the Govrnment of the Socialist Republics if Vietnam on the repatriation of ethnic minority Montagnards who have fled from Vietnam to Cambodia. The agreement has failed to specify clearly the voluntary nature of the return of those asylum seekers, the UNHCR’s role, and standards of the repatriation of returnees to adequately ensure their protection and the exercise of their rights while back in their homelands.
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Commune Council Elections 2002
Violence and election irregularities have continued to mark the lead up to the February 3 commune council polls. While a relatively calm environment prevailed during the first week, a two year old child was killed on January 25 when gunmen opened fire on his father, a CPP candidate in Banteay Meanchey province.
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Vietnam/Cambodia: Future of Montagnard Refugees at Risk
(London/New York)-- Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch today expressed conern over plans agreed by the Vietnamese and Cambodian govrnments and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to facilitate repatriation of indigenous Montagnard refugees who have fled from Vietnam to Cambodia during the past year.
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Cambodia: End Political Violence During Commune Elections
(New York) -- Political violence and intimidation are increasing as Cambodia prepares for commune-level election on February 3, Human Rights Watch said in a backgrounder released today. Human Rights Watch called on the government to vigorously investigate and prosecute any person, including government agents, found to be involved in election-related violence or voter coercion.
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Commune Council Elections 2002
It examines election related crimes and intimidation in breach of national laws and international human rights standards that have come to the attention of the COHCHR since January 1, 2001.
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Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia
The Special Representative welcomes assurances from the Government that political violence will not be tolerated and, in particular, the Prime Minister commitment to reiterate his earlier statements against politically related violence in advance of the elections.
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Role and Achievements of the OHCHR Cambodia
Cambodia provided assistance to the Special Representative, Peter Leuprecht, in carrying out the mandate entrusted to him by the Commission in resolution 1993, 6 and subsequent resolutions.
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Participatory Poverty Assessment in Cambodia
This Participatory Poverty Assessment is intended to inform poverty reduction policies emanating from the Royal Government of Cambodia’s Second Socioeconomic Development Plan.
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