Restore Free Assembly, UN Rights Council Says

29 January 2014
The Cambodia Daily
Civil society / Crime and law enforcement / Government / Human rights / International laws and treaties / International relations / Judiciary and courts / Law and judiciary / Laws and regulations / Social development
Cambodian People's Party / CPP / Human Rights Committee / Hun Sen / Mak Sambath / Surya Subedi / U.N. / U.N. Human Rights Council / U.N.’s special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia / United Nations

Cambodia’s human rights record was assessed Tuesday by the U.N. Human Rights Council’s 47 member states in Geneva, many of which cited concerns about the recent violent suppression of protests by the government, and a judiciary beholden to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling CPP. The U.N. hearing focused on a set of 91 recommendations put to Cambodia by the Human Rights Council in 2009. This list outlined ways in which Cambodia could improve its human rights record and pointed in particular to improvements needed in areas such as judicial reform, land rights and ratifications of international treaties. … Diplomats from Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, the Czech Republic, the U.K., the U.S. and Germany were among those who questioned Cambodia on its January 4 decision to ban gatherings in Phnom Penh after unleashing lethal force on protesters outside a garment factory on January 3, which resulted in five dead and more than 40 wounded.. …

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