Women targeted at protests, Rapporteur says

15 May 2014
The Cambodia Daily
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Boeng Kak / Journal of Global Ethics / Maina Kiai / UN Human Rights Council

The U.N.’s special rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association, Maina Kiai, has sent his third thematic report to the U.N. Human Rights Council following trips to various countries, including a three-day visit to Cambodia in February. The report focuses on groups that Mr. Kiai, a Kenyan lawyer, considers most at risk when they try to exercise the right to assembly and association. ... An essay written by Mr. Kiai and published in the Journal of Global Ethics on April 29 cites the 2012 imprisonment of 13 women from the community. “Their sentences were later reduced, but harassment against community members—primarily the women—has continued.”

 Lauren Crothers
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