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Cambodia: Montagnard Asylum Seekers Threatened with Return
(New York) Human Rights Watch said today that no ethnic minority asylum seekers from Vietnam currently in Cambodia should be repatriated until sufficient safeguards are in place on the Vietnamese side of the border.
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Cambodia: Deportation of Montagnard Refugees to Vietnam
Human Rights Watch today denounced the Cambodian government’s forced expulsions of at least eighty-nine indigenous minority asylum seekers from the Central Highlands of Vietnam, and called for immediate measures to protect other refugees who may be at risk. Seventy people have been expelled in the last ten days alone.
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CHRAC Calls for Amendments to Law on the Creation of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), which comprises 18 NGOs wishes to call on the Royal Government, the National Assembly and the Senate to comply with the remarks by the Constitutional Council on the Law on the creation of an extraordinary chamber for the trial of Khmer Rouge leaders, and amend it accordingly and adopt this amendment without further delay. CHRAC would like to request the Royal Government to incorporate in the amendment those provisions of the agreement on the Khmer Rouge Trial reached between the Royal Government and the United Nations that had been left out in the original draft of that law.
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Cambodia: Verdict A Setback for Indigenous Land Rights
Human Rights Watch today expressed strong concern about a provincial court ruling in the highlands of northeasern Cambodian that dispossesses more than 900 indigenous people of their ancestral lands. On March 23, the provincial court in Ratanakiri province ruled against a civil complaint brought by ethnic Jarai and Tampuen people in three villages.
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Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia
This is the Special Representative first report to the Commission on Human Rights. He has not yet reported to the General Assembly owing to lack of time for a well prepared mission prior to its fifty fifth session.
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Role and Achievements of the OHCHR Cambodia
High Commissioner, to continue the work of his predecessors by evaluating the extent to which the recommendations in his forthcoming reports, and those contained in the reports of his predecessors, are followed up and implemented, and maintaining contact with the Government and the people of Cambodia.
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