Rights record under fire
A pair of reports to be presented at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva today and tomorrow paint a bleak image of a country whose rights record has worsened considerably over the past year.
An annual report from the Office for the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) in Cambodia, due to be presented on Wednesday, highlights crackdowns on freedom of expression, an increasing desperation over land issues and a culture of impunity that has hardly abated. …
The OHCHR report, released yesterday, details a number of rights violations pegged to alarming trends including the increased use of violence by both demonstrators and security forces and “rapid arbitrary convictions of human rights defenders”. …
