“Skin on the Cable”

Glossary of Slang

Map of Cambodian Detention Centers

I. Executive Summary

II. Recommendations

To the National Authority for Combating Drugs, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation, and the Phnom Penh Municipality

To the National Assembly of Cambodia

To the Ministry of Health

To United Nations agencies

To UN human rights bodies

To bilateral and multilateral donors and NGOs providing assistance to Cambodia on drugs or HIV/AIDS issues in Cambodia

III. Methodology

IV. Background

Drug use in Cambodia

Cambodia’s drug detention centers

Previous reports of abuses in Social Affairs centers

Cambodia’s Drugs Law..

V. Findings

Abuses during arrest

Abuses in detention

Drug treatment and living conditions

Specific populations

VI. Conclusions

VII. Acknowledgements

Annex: Correspondence with the Royal Cambodian Government