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- Govt readies for UN human rights review 1 Dec 2009 08:47 GMT
... reform, corruption and land rights are expected to be high on the agenda when Cambodia comes before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva for its first formal rights review this afternoon. A UN summary ...
- Duch on Trial - Week 20, Part 2 (Sep 28, 2009) 1 Dec 2009 09:10 GMT
... Khmer Rouge trial proceedings currently underway in Cambodia. This episode covers the third week of ... Commonwealth Office through the British Embassy in Phnom Penh. The Asian International Justice Initiative is a ... justice initiatives and capacity-building programs in the human rights sector in South-East Asia. For more information, ...
- Duch on Trial - Week 20, Part 1 (Sep 28, 2009) 1 Dec 2009 09:10 GMT
... Khmer Rouge trial proceedings currently underway in Cambodia. This episode covers the third week of ... Commonwealth Office through the British Embassy in Phnom Penh. The Asian International Justice Initiative is a ... justice initiatives and capacity-building programs in the human rights sector in South-East Asia. For more information, ...
- Sam Rainsy backers protest abroad 1 Dec 2009 08:47 GMT
... demonstration against the “deterioration of democracy in Cambodia” on Parliament Hill in the Canadian capital, ... visas to “any corrupted official, including any human rights violators”. Sam Rainsy, who is currently in ...
- Demjanjuk trial / Why liberal legal systems can't try Nazis 1 Dec 2009 03:10 GMT
... genocide. These have returned repeatedly, in Vietnam, Cambodia, Rwanda, the Balkans and elsewhere. From that ... Holocaust: the obligation to defend democracy and human rights, to fight racism in all its forms ...
- Legal systems can't try Nazis 1 Dec 2009 09:16 GMT
... genocide. These have returned repeatedly, in Vietnam, Cambodia, Rwanda, the Balkans and elsewhere. From that ... Holocaust: the obligation to defend democracy and human rights, to fight racism in all its forms ...
- The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Trials and Tribulations 30 Nov 2009 11:11 GMT
... When the Khmer Rouge emptied the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh of human inhabitants in 1975, one of ... In January, the University of California Berkeley's Human Rights Center released a report saying that 85% ...
- The Khmer Rouge Tribunal: Cambodia's Healing Process 30 Nov 2009 19:02 GMT
... When the Khmer Rouge emptied the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh of human inhabitants in 1975, one of ... January, the University of California at Berkeley's Human Rights Center released a report saying that 85% ...
- Khmer Rouge Death Camp Commander Awaits Sentence 30 Nov 2009 13:51 GMT
... PHNOM PENH -- The trial of a Khmer Rouge ... and amid fear of retribution. The three Cambodian and two international judges declined the request ... Theary Seng -- an author, lawyer and human rights activist -- argued that Duch should be ...
- Alleviating the Khmer Rouge's Ghosts 30 Nov 2009 01:54 GMT
... PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The first trial to showcase the ... system that has contributed to widespread ignorance. Human rights groups and legal experts said they hoped ...
- Moving Beyond Khmer Rouge's Ghosts 30 Nov 2009 02:20 GMT
... PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The first trial to showcase the ... system that has contributed to widespread ignorance. Human rights groups and legal experts said they hoped ...
- Moving Beyond Khmer Rouge's Ghosts (Today) 30 Nov 2009 08:44 GMT
... By SETH MYDANS, The New York Times PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- The first trial to showcase the ... system that has contributed to widespread ignorance. Human rights groups and legal experts said they hoped ...
- A 30 Years Commemoration - Civil Society in Cambodia - Sunday, 29.11.2009 30 Nov 2009 03:53 GMT
... years since NGOs started to work in Cambodia. Nowadays, when the participation of NGOs – ... established diplomatic relations with the government in Phnom Penh after the end of the Khmer Rouge ... schemes based on an free-market system, where human rights an democratic are more under threat than ...
- News Analysis: Moving Beyond Khmer Rouge's Ghosts 30 Nov 2009 03:50 GMT
... known as Duch, was the first leading Khmer Rouge figure to be tried in connection ... people when the brutal Communist regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. Throughout the trial, his ... system that has contributed to widespread ignorance. Human rights groups and legal experts said they hoped ...
- Cambodia: UN Review Should Insist on Respect for Rights 1 Dec 2009 00:00 GMT
... express concerns about the dramatic deterioration of freedom of expression, assembly, and association in Cambodia at today's review of the nation's human rights record, Human Rights Watch said today. Cambodia is undergoing its first Universal Periodic Review ...
- Bid for release rocks KR case 30 Nov 2009 09:35 GMT
... the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on Friday to attend the trial of ... chief Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch, in Phnom Penh. Second KRT letter sent to Keat Chhon ... legal arguments, Eric Stover, director of the Human Rights Centre at the University of California-Berkeley, said ...
- Critics call for judicial oversight 30 Nov 2009 09:35 GMT
... to justice. Sara Colm, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch, said: “One concern is that they ... government – and if not there, then Cambodia’s international partners – to go after the ... track the offenders down.” In overturning the Phnom Penh Municipal Court decision, Appeal Court Presiding Judge ...
- NAA to target marginalised for assistance 30 Nov 2009 09:35 GMT
... of Tuesday’s marking of World AIDS Day, Cambodia today will commit to protecting the rights ... he said. Sara Colm, a researcher at Human Rights Watch, said government practices deny adequate treatment ... families evicted from Borei Keila in central Phnom Penh, Colm said: “People living with HIV in ...
- Indonesian democracy a huge work in progress: Marty 30 Nov 2009 17:55 GMT
... with, for example, the Intergovernmental Commission for Human Rights, could be a bit more active on ... to serve as a mediator for the Thai-Cambodian conflict. Any progress? We are very much ...
- Khmer Jailor Trial Ends With Twist 29 Nov 2009 17:13 GMT
... Phnom Penh. Former Khmer Rouge prison chief Duch asked Cambodia’s UN-backed war crimes court Friday to acquit ... for the victims,” said Eric Holder, a human rights professor from the University of California at ...
- News Analysis: Cambodian Trial, Though Grim, Broke New Ground 29 Nov 2009 19:10 GMT
... PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The first trial to showcase the ... system that has contributed to widespread ignorance. Human rights groups and legal experts said they hoped ...
- Like Speer, he had no choice, Khmer Rouge jailer to say 25 Nov 2009 02:13 GMT
... here Wednesday as the chief jailer for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge will tell his own trial ... notorious S-21 prison in the centre of Phnom Penh while the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia from ... said Thun Saray, president of the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association, a group that has ...
- Cambodian Trial, Though Grim, Broke New Ground 29 Nov 2009 18:50 GMT
... PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The first trial to showcase the ... system that has contributed to widespread ignorance. Human rights groups and legal experts said they hoped ...
- Shock Khmer Rouge plea highlights political battle 29 Nov 2009 05:55 GMT
... Shock Khmer Rouge plea highlights political battle PHNOM PENH (AFP) - – A last-minute bid for ... has underscored deep rifts between foreign and Cambodian staff that threaten the UN-backed court, officials ... Saray, the head of ADHOC, a Cambodian human rights organisation. Unlike other international tribunals, the Extraordinary ...
- Cambodian ex-prison chief pleads for release 27 Nov 2009 07:33 GMT
... HUNT and SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press Writers PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - The Khmer Rouge prison chief ... entire population to work on farm collectives. Human rights lawyer and activist Theary Seng said Duch's ...
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