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| Meeting Over NGO Law Fails To Ease Concerns |
| VOA, 2011-12-19 |
| Ou Virak, head of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said the latest version of the law, which was kicked back to the Ministry of Interior in October for revision, has three main points of concern. |
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| “Development” does not justify land grabs in Cambodia |
| FutureChallenges, 2011-12-17 |
| There are different figures reported for the number of families affected by forced eviction and land grabs. For example, the Cambodian civil rights group Adhoc reportedly says that in the last year [2010] alone, 12,389 families were victims of forced evictions. According to a survey in 13 of Cambodia’s 24 provinces by another local human rights organization Licadho, during the first half of 2010 more than 3,500 families – approximately 17,000 people – were affected by land grabbing. Another figure from land mapping launched on the first human rights portal, sithi.org, hosted by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, points out that 47,342 families were or could be affected by the 223 land disputes reported in the public domain during the 4 years since 2007. |
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| Draft Law Improved But Still Flawed, NGOs Say |
| VOA, 2011-12-16 |
| Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, told VOA Khmer the new draft is improved, but it still is not perfect.
“The law gives too much power to the government or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to restrict the freedom and operation of foreign organizations,” he said. |
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| Groups Fear Little Time To Review Latest NGO Law |
| VOA, 2011-12-08 |
| “If so, we certainly welcome it,” said Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. “But according to their past promises in discussing the second draft, they said all recommendations would be included, but when the actual bill came out there were still some flaws.” |
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| Calls For Justice Continue A Year After Cambodian Stampede |
| WSJ, 2011-11-23 |
| The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), responsible for the report, is recommending that the government reopen a “full investigation” into the incident, which Prime Minister Hun Sen himself labeled as the greatest tragedy to befall the country since the Pol Pot regime. |
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