Group urges regional bank to press government on NGO law
A group of international NGOs urged the Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday to press the government on abandoning its plans for a law regulating the country’s non-governmental groups despite a recent pledge to drop its most controversial provision. “The ADB should convince the Cambodian authorities to immediately withdraw the draft law,” the NGOs, which included Human Rights Watch and Freedom House, said in a joint statement addressed to ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda…
