Work Remains for Cambodia After UN Rights Hearing
Though Cambodia had four years to implement 91 recommendations on how to improve its human rights record, U.N. member states still had to push for action in a number of key areas during its second Universal Periodic Review hearing in Geneva on Tuesday. In a speech to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Mak Sambath, vice-chair of the government’s Human Rights Committee, admitted that it was unclear exactly how many of the 91 recommendations made in 2009 have actually been implemented, and conceded that reforms have yet to be carried out on the electoral process and judicial system. According to a briefing note issued by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, member states’ renewed recommendations to Cambodia focused on 13 key points, including the establishment of an independent human rights body, which is something Cambodia promised to do in 2009. …
Lauren Crothers
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