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Human Rights Committee petitions UN over Thai strikes with T-50TH jets
The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) will submit additional petitions to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and other relevant parties asking them to condemn, apply pressure and take measures regarding Thailand’s violations against Cambodia, including the use of F-16 and T-50TH aircraft to ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/human-rights-committee-petitions-un-over-thai-strikes-with-t-50th-jets
UN special rapporteur resigned in secret weeks ago, following criticism
Vitit Muntarbhorn, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, resigned from the position due to “health reasons” some two weeks ago, following widespread criticisms over his inaction on the situation of human rights at the Cambodian-Thailand border. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/un-special-rapporteur-resigned-in-secret-weeks-ago-following-criticism
28 delegations at UN speak out in favour of Kingdom’s civic space
Of the 36 delegations present at the Oral Update of the UN Human Rights Council held on March 29, only eight were critical of the Kingdom’s civic and personal space while the 28 spoke in favour of the situation in the country, according to the ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/28-delegations-un-speak-out-favour-kingdoms-civic-space
Government responds to UN human rights concerns
Government officials on Monday hit back at UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) criticisms expressed ahead of the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) scheduled for next month. ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/government-responds-un-human-rights-concerns
UNHRC releases documents on state of Cambodia
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has published three documents in preparation for a review next month on the situation in Cambodia. The UNHRC is set to review the human rights situation in the Kingdom on January 30 during the 32nd Universal Periodic Review (UPR), ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/unhrc-releases-documents-state-cambodia
Poll criticism a ‘serious insult’, PM tells the UN
Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Friday, Hun Sen defended July’s national elections and hit out at criticism from certain unnamed countries, calling them a “serious insult” to the will of the Cambodian people that showed “the ambition to interfere” in the ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/poll-criticism-serious-insult-pm-tells-un
