Rainsy eyes seat at UN rights review meeting

24 January 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
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Opposition leader Sam Rainsy left for Europe yesterday evening to attend a UN Human Rights Council review on Cambodia in Geneva and to lobby European Union officials to take a stronger stance against the government, he said before departure. Rainsy plans on attending the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process for Cambodia at the UN on January 28 – a state-led initiative that will see government officials presenting what they have done to improve human rights in Cambodia in an interactive session with other UN member states. But Mak Sambath, the head of the Cambodian delegation and deputy chairman of the Cambodian Human Rights Committee, mocked Rainsy’s plans yesterday, saying that he would have to sit outside the meeting room. ...

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