Cambodia
Ahead of commune and national elections in 2022 and 2023, Prime Minister Hun Sen used the Covid-19 pandemic to expand authoritarian control by further curtailing free speech, privacy rights, media freedoms, and peaceful assembly. In power since 1985, Hun Sen oversees one-party rule in parliament after Cambodia’s politicized courts dissolved the main opposition party prior to the 2018 elections. Draconian laws, extrajudicial killings, violent attacks, and politically motivated prosecutions, including mass trials against over 100 political opposition members and dozens of human rights defenders, perpetuate autocratic rule and silence dissent. Cambodia holds more than 60 political prisoners.
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“Paying for a Bus Ticket and Expecting to Fly”
How Apparel Brand Purchasing Practices Drive Labor Abuses
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Cambodia: Rights Crackdown Intensifies
Bogus Charges Against Union Leaders, Opposition Politicians, Activists
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Cambodia: Immediately Release and Drop Charges Against Union Leader Chhim Sithar
Joint Statement from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch
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Japan: Press Cambodia to End Trade Union Crackdown
Tokyo-Provided Buses Used in Forced Removal of Strikers
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Cambodia: 51 Opposition Politicians Convicted in Mass Trial
Prison Sentences of Up to Eight Years on Baseless Charges
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US-ASEAN: Promote Rights, Democracy at Summit
President Biden Should Raise Key Issues with Regional Leaders
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How Does Inviting Autocrats to the White House Make Asia More Free?
The upcoming U.S.-ASEAN special summit stands in jarring juxtaposition to last year’s “Summit for Democracy” — to which most ASEAN states didn’t merit an invitation.
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Cambodia: backsliding on human rights jeopardizes free and fair elections
HRW Statement - Item 10 Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia - HRC49
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At Long Last, Signs of Justice for 1997 Cambodia Massacre
The brazen attack in broad daylight 25 years ago has ingrained impunity in Cambodia more than any other single act in the country’s post-Khmer Rouge history.
