*Subject: CCHR Newsletter: April 2015From:* Cambodian Center for Human
Rights <[email protected]>
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*CCHR Newsletter: Rights in Focus*
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*'Free the 12' campaign launched at CCHR headquarters, Phnom Penh*
On Friday 6 March 2015, the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (“CCHR”)
launched a campaign to call for the release of 12 people, including 11
women and 1 monk, wrongfully convicted and jailed while exercising their
fundamental freedoms.
The campaign was launched ahead of International Women’s Day, in light of
the 11 women detained in relation to the long-running land dispute in the
Boeung Kak area of Phnom Penh. The launch featured a press conference with
remarks from CCHR Executive Director Chak Sopheap, relatives of the
detainees, and a representative of LICADHO, as well as the delivery of a
joint statement requesting the immediate release and the dropping of all
charges against the activists. Individuals were also encouraged to write
postcards with messages of solidarity to be sent to the 12 detainees. CCHR
will collect the postcards from the public and deliver them once a month
until the release.
The launch took place at the CCHR headquarters in Phnom Penh and was
attended by approximately 70 participants, including members of the Boeung
Kak community, their friends and supporters, as well as local journalists
and civil society groups. Fellow community members voiced their concerns
over the ongoing land dispute, lamented the absence and suffering of the
detainees, and expressed solidarity for the fight for the housing rights of
their community. The 12-year-old daughter of one of the jailed women told
the crowd that while she missed her mother and could not afford to go to
school while she was in prison, she would continue to ‘stand up and fight
for my mother’.
Respect for the rights to freedom of expression, association, and assembly,
and to a fair trial, as endorsed in the Cambodian Constitution and
international treaties that Cambodia acceded, remains a serious concern. In
her speech, Ms. Chak Sopheap called for the Cambodian government to abide
by its duty to respect and protect the rights of its citizens, including
when exercising their fundamental freedoms through protests, and not to
arbitrarily imprison them with no respect for fair trial rights. Ms.
Sopheap also called for greater protections for Human Rights Defenders,
especially those who are particularly vulnerable in Cambodian society such
as women defenders.
The ‘Free the 12’ campaign launch successfully highlighted the need and the
public support to continue to fight for the fundamental freedoms of
Cambodian citizens. These rights are routinely denied, as evidenced by the
abuses suffered by the activists in this case.
Free the 12!
For further information regarding the intersection of women’s rights in
Cambodia and the Boeung Kak Lake campaign, please see the ‘Sihti’ blog
post ‘Cambodian
women are speaking up for their rights; it’s time we listen’
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written by CCHR International Intern, Nina Calleja.
*Also see:*
CCHR, ‘CCHR to launch campaign for the release of 12 land rights defenders
imprisoned for exercising their fundamental freedoms
<http://cchrcambodia.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0a8a794dcfa925a728e17c377&id=811efff36e&e=1e56b14e2a>’,
Media Release, 4 March 2015.
CCHR, ‘Civil Society Organizations call for the release of 12 land rights
defenders imprisoned for exercising their fundamental freedoms’
<http://cchrcambodia.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0a8a794dcfa925a728e17c377&id=6603259793&e=1e56b14e2a>,
Joint Statement, 6 March 2015.
*In The Media:*
Phnom Penh Post, 18 March 2015, quoting Ms Chak Sopheap: Michelle Obama to
push girls' education
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Aljazeera, 19 March 2015, quoting Ms Chak Sopheap: Cambodia OKs
controversial election laws
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Radio Free Asia, 9 March 2015, quoting Ms Chak Sopheap: N
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Slam Cambodian Political Parties Over Workshop on Electoral Reform Draft
Law
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Radio Free Asia, 6 March 2015, authored by Ms Chak Sopheap: Civil Society
Groups Call for Release of Boeung Kak Activists in Cambodia
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Media Alert: CCHR to Launch Campaign for the Release of 12 Land Rights
Defenders Imprisoned for Exercising Their Fundamental Freedoms
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Joint Media Statement: Civil Society Organizations Call for the Release of
12 Land Rights Defenders Imprisoned for Exercising their Fundamental
Freedoms
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Joint Statement: Joint Statement of Civil Society Organizations on the
Draft Law on the Organization and Function of the National Election
Committee and the Draft Law on Election of Members of the National Assembly
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Media Statement: CCHR Calls on the Government to Uphold Civil and Political
Rights Ahead of Cambodia's Second Review by the UN Human Rights Committee
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Joint Press Release: Cambodia to be Reviewed by UN Human Rights Committee:
The World Organization Against Torture and the Cambodian Center for Human
Rights call on the UN Body to Denounce Cambodia's Treatment of Human Rights
Defenders
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Joint Press Release: Cambodia Fails to Respond to UN Human Rights Committee
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Media Alert: CCHR to Release Short Film to Promote Fair Trial Rights
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(Photograph: CCHR Team)
*CCHR reports to the UN Human Rights Committee on the situation of rights
in Cambodia*
On 17 and 18 March 2015, The UN Human Rights Committee reviewed Cambodia's
second periodic report on the state of civil and political rights in the
country. Various NGOs, including CCHR and its partner organization OMCT,
submitted an alternative report
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and met with the Committee in Geneva to brief the experts on serious
concerns
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including impunity and the crackdowns on human rights defenders,
journalists and trade unionists.
*Upcoming Events:*
*3 April*, CCHR Radio Talk Show
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on 'ASEAN Integration and Political Economics'
*9 April, *13th session of the UN Human Rights Committee closes.
*26 April*, Anniversary of the assassination of environmental activist Chut
Wutty
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Email [email protected] for more information.
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*Fair Trial Rights Video Launched at CCHR Headquaters*
>From On the 26th of March 2015, CCHR launched a new short film to raise
awareness of fair trila rights, focusing on the right to legal
representation and to be present at trial, the presumption of innocence,
the rights of juvenile defendants and the right to be tried by a free and
impartial judge. The video's production was made possible by a grant from
the World Justice Project, as part of its 2014 World Justice Challenge.
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