• Annual Report 2009

    Annual Report 2009

    Since its restructuring, the Cambodian, Disabled People’s Organisation (CDPO), has stepped up significantly towards, making positive changes, to the lives of, persons with disabilities in Cambodia. It, has been a challenging time, working, towards the recognition of disabled peoples’ capabilities instead of, concentrating on their disabilities, and towards the gradual, improvement of their, quality of life and garnering respect for, their human rights.

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  • Statement of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia

    Statement of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia

    OHCHR regrets once again that the courts have been used to respond to a public interest issue that could have been resolved in a more open, constructive manner, through public debate within Cambodia’s democratic institutions. Mr. Sam Rainsy was sentenced to two years imprisonment for damage to property and incitement to racial siscrimination (Article 52 and 61 of the UNTAC penal law, respectively). Ms. Meas Srey and Mr. Prum Chea were sentenced to 1 year imprisonment for damage to property. All three were further sentenced to heavy fines and compensation ranging from 5 to 50 millions riels.

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  • Statement of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia

    Statement of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia

    OHCHR regrets once again that the courts have been used to respond to a public interest issue that could have been resolved in a more open, constructive manner, through public debate within Cambodia’s democratic institutions. Mr. Sam Rainsy was sentenced to two years imprisonment for damage to property and incitement to racial siscrimination (Article 52 and 61 of the UNTAC penal law, respectively). Ms. Meas Srey and Mr. Prum Chea were sentenced to 1 year imprisonment for damage to property. All three were further sentenced to heavy fines and compensation ranging from 5 to 50 millions riels.

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  • Statement of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia

    Statement of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia

    OHCHR regrets once again that the courts have been used to respond to a public interest issue that could have been resolved in a more open, constructive manner, through public debate within Cambodia’s democratic institutions. Mr. Sam Rainsy was sentenced to two years imprisonment for damage to property and incitement to racial siscrimination (Article 52 and 61 of the UNTAC penal law, respectively). Ms. Meas Srey and Mr. Prum Chea were sentenced to 1 year imprisonment for damage to property. All three were further sentenced to heavy fines and compensation ranging from 5 to 50 millions riels.

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  • Statement of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia

    Statement of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia

    OHCHR regrets once again that the courts have been used to respond to a public interest issue that could have been resolved in a more open, constructive manner, through public debate within Cambodia’s democratic institutions. Mr. Sam Rainsy was sentenced to two years imprisonment for damage to property and incitement to racial siscrimination (Article 52 and 61 of the UNTAC penal law, respectively). Ms. Meas Srey and Mr. Prum Chea were sentenced to 1 year imprisonment for damage to property. All three were further sentenced to heavy fines and compensation ranging from 5 to 50 millions riels.

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  • Sam Rainsy Conviction Reflects Cambodia’s Rotten Democracy

    Sam Rainsy Conviction Reflects Cambodia’s Rotten Democracy

    The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) condemns the political-ruling by Svay Rieng Provincial Court on 27 January 2010 that found Cambodian Opposition leader Sam Rainsy guilty of racial incitement and destruction of property, and villagers Meas Srey and Prom Chea guilty of destruction of property. The charges arose from an October 2009 incident in which Mr. Rainsy joined villagers from Svay Rieng’s Chantrea district.

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  • Sam Rainsy Conviction Reflects Cambodia’s Rotten Democracy

    Sam Rainsy Conviction Reflects Cambodia’s Rotten Democracy

    The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) condemns the political-ruling by Svay Rieng Provincial Court on 27 January 2010 that found Cambodian Opposition leader Sam Rainsy guilty of racial incitement and destruction of property, and villagers Meas Srey and Prom Chea guilty of destruction of property. The charges arose from an October 2009 incident in which Mr. Rainsy joined villagers from Svay Rieng’s Chantrea district.

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  • Sam Rainsy Conviction Reflects Cambodia’s Rotten Democracy

    Sam Rainsy Conviction Reflects Cambodia’s Rotten Democracy

    The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) condemns the political-ruling by Svay Rieng Provincial Court on 27 January 2010 that found Cambodian Opposition leader Sam Rainsy guilty of racial incitement and destruction of property, and villagers Meas Srey and Prom Chea guilty of destruction of property. The charges arose from an October 2009 incident in which Mr. Rainsy joined villagers from Svay Rieng’s Chantrea district.

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  • Sam Rainsy Conviction Reflects Cambodia’s Rotten Democracy

    Sam Rainsy Conviction Reflects Cambodia’s Rotten Democracy

    The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) condemns the political-ruling by Svay Rieng Provincial Court on 27 January 2010 that found Cambodian Opposition leader Sam Rainsy guilty of racial incitement and destruction of property, and villagers Meas Srey and Prom Chea guilty of destruction of property. The charges arose from an October 2009 incident in which Mr. Rainsy joined villagers from Svay Rieng’s Chantrea district.

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  • Press Conference with the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia

    Press Conference with the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Cambodia

    You are cordially invited to a press conference with Mr. Surya Subedi, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia.

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  • Skin on the Cable

    Skin on the Cable

    In this 93-page report Human Rights Watch documents detainees being beaten, raped, forced to donate blood, and subjected to painful physical punishments such as "rolling like a barrel" and being chained while standing in the sun. Human Rights Watch also reported that a large number of detainees told of receiving rotten or insect-ridden food and symptoms of diseases consistent with nutritional deficiencies.

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  • “Skin on the Cable” The Illegal Arrest, Arbitrary Detention and Torture of People Who Use Drugs in Cambodia

    “Skin on the Cable” The Illegal Arrest, Arbitrary Detention and Torture of People Who Use Drugs in Cambodia

    Cambodians who use drugs confound the notion that drug dependence is a self-inflicted condition that results from a character disorder or moral failing. When Human Rights Watch talked with these people, they were invariably softly spoken and polite. They talked openly and honestly about difficult childhoods (in many cases still underway) living on the streets, or growing up in refugee camps in Thailand.

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