Law and judiciary

Law making process

Judicial reform drafts to move forward in March

Three judicial reform draft laws will be submitted to the Council of Ministers last this month, justice officials said Wednesday. The draft laws deal with the functions of the courts and the conduct of judges and prosecutors, as well as an oversight body called the Supreme ...

Kong Sothanarith
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/judicial-reform-drafts-to-move-forward-in-march/1864692.html

Input on NGO law over: gov’t

The government will not consult civil society groups on the latest iteration of a draft law that will regulate non-governmental organisations and associations, a senior Interior Ministry official said yesterday. Meas Sarim, deputy director-general of the General Department of Local Administration at the Ministry of Interior ...

Chhay Channyda and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/input-ngo-law-over-gov%E2%80%99t

Low ranking for rule of law

The World Justice Project yesterday ranked Cambodia 91st out of 99 nations and at the bottom of the barrel regionally in terms of its devotion to the rule of law, despite its midlevel performance in terms of providing order and security. In its annual Rule of ...

Stuart White and May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/low-ranking-rule-law

Path toward adoptions progressing

Marking the next step to the Kingdom’s resumption of international adoptions, the Ministry of Social Affairs distributed for the first time copies of all adoption-related prakases, or edicts, to international representatives and adoption agencies in the capital yesterday. ...

Amelia Woodside and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/path-toward-adoptions-progressing

Hun Sen’s son defends government’s legitimacy

Hun Mani, a parliamentary member from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, yesterday visited more than a thousand of local people in Kampong Speu, including supporters of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). He took the time to justify the legitimacy of the government led by His Father, ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=Y2RjZTg1ZGE3ZWM

Hun Sen gives green light for establishment of independent Human Right Committee

Non-Governmental Organizations received green lights from the Royal Government of Cambodia to kick off a draft law on the establishment of a National Independent Committee on Human Rights in Cambodia. Prime Minister of Cambodia tasked the Civil Society Organizations to develop a draft law on the ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=MjRmYTc2NmExNzU

Amnesty idea floated during talks: report

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun Sen discussed the possibility of offering amnesty to senior government officials in order to allow for “an honourable exit of the leaders”, Rainsy was quoted as saying to the French newspaper La Libération last week. Rainsy reportedly said in the ...

Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/amnesty-idea-floated-during-talks-report

Hope for freedom of information?

Representatives from civil society and the opposition gathered yesterday to push for the adoption of an access to information law – a move that comes less than a month after Prime Minister Hun Sen urged the Ministry of Information to hasten its development. Two laws dealing ...

Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hope-freedom-information

Government Pushes Ahead With NGO Law

After nearly two years of silence on its draft NGO Law, the Ministry of Interior on Sunday said it was aiming to have the highly contentious piece of legislation ready for the Council of Ministers early next year and voted on by July. Meas Sarim, deputy ...

Phorn Bopha and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-pushes-ahead-with-ngo-law-48245/

Budget leaves $1.5b unassigned

Transparency watchdogs have warned that $1.5 billion of unallocated funds in next year’s budget will only encourage nepotism and embezzlement. The Draft Budget Law was approved at the National Assembly on Tuesday in a unanimous vote of 66 ruling Cambodian People’s Party MPs. The $3.4 billion ...

Daniel Pye and Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/budget-leaves-15b-unassigned

CPP lawmakers vote to create new ministries

Lawmakers from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party yesterday unanimously voted to pass legislation which will create three new government ministries. Sixty-six CPP representatives voted to create a Ministry of Public Function, which will oversee the affairs of civil servants. The MPs also followed through on a floated ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-lawmakers-vote-create-new-ministries

Speed up FOI law, PM says

Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on the Ministry of Information to accelerate the drafting of a long-awaited freedom of information law that could see more transparency in the Kingdom’s government. According to a press release issued by the Council of Ministers after a cabinet meeting ...

Meas Sokchea and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/speed-foi-law-pm-says

National Assembly’s Finance Committee Approves 2014 Budget

The National Assembly’s CPP-run finance committee approved the country’s $3.54 billion draft budget for 2014 Wednesday, its last hurdle before debate and a possible vote can be held by the full Assembly, where the opposition is still refusing to take nearly half the seats. “After the ...

Kuch Naren and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/national-assemblys-finance-committee-approves-2014-budget-46714/

CPP fills seats with … CPP

Ruling party lawmakers yesterday unanimously voted to fill each of the National Assembly’s nine commissions with their own members. The vote was made without the presence of the opposition, which has been boycotting parliament since its opening late last month. Among the five Cambodian People’s Party members ...

Meas Sokchea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cpp-fills-seats-%E2%80%A6-cpp

CPP Readies for One-Party Vote On Assembly Committees

Senior CPP members selected nominees for the National Assembly’s nine permanent committees behind closed doors on Tuesday, while the opposition CNRP, which has continued to boycott the Assembly over July’s disputed election, urged some of Cambodia’s foreign donors to immediately sever ties with the government ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/cpp-readies-for-one-party-vote-on-assembly-committees-44695/

First CPP National Assembly Plenary Session Set for Thursday

The National Assembly will hold its first plenary session meeting on Thursday since Prime Minister Hun Sen’s 68 members of parliament last month approved an Assembly president and chairpersons to head the body’s nine committees, and despite the opposition CNRP still refusing to take their ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/first-cpp-national-assembly-plenary-session-set-for-thursday-44452/

Five More Years For Hun Sen; Some Ministers Reshuffled

A day after its opening session and still devoid of the 55 lawmakers-elect of the opposition CNRP, the country’s new, one-party National Assembly voted Prime Minister Hun Sen in for yet another five-year term Tuesday and approved an extensive re­shuffle of his Cabinet. In a ...

Hul Reaksmey and Zsombor Peter
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/five-more-years-for-hun-sen-some-ministers-reshuffled-43133/

With Just One Party Present, King Convenes New Parliament

King Norodom Sihamoni presided over a nearly half-empty opening session of the National Assembly on Monday as all 55 elected lawmakers of the opposition CNRP followed through with their threat to boycott parliament to protest disputed results of July’s national election. Analysts and election monitors ...

Zsombor Peter and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/with-just-one-party-present-king-convenes-new-parliament-43033/

Cambodia, Vietnam look to enhance legislative ties

There should be stronger legislative co-operation between Vietnam and Cambodia, agreed Vice Chairwoman of the Vietnam National Assembly Tong Thi Phong and the second Vice President of the Senate of Cambodia Tep Ngorn. During a meeting on Saturday during the 34th General Assembly of the ASEAN ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=M2ViNzExYWI2MDI

Hun Sen Offers ‘Back Pay’ to Ousted Opposition Lawmakers

Prime Minister Hun Sen has offered to pay back the lost salaries of opposition lawmakers who were stripped of their parliamentary posts in June by the then CPP-led National Assembly, a CNRP official said. The offer to back-pay the 27 lawmakers from the Sam Rainsy Party ...

Colin Meyn
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/hun-sen-offers-back-pay-to-ousted-opposition-lawmakers-42679/

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