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Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Tuesday to address ongoing human rights issues in discussions with Cambodian officials as she begins her two-day official trip to Cambodia. The visit, marking the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations, offers an opportunity to highlight ongoing concerns regarding transnational repression [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday welcomed the UN Human Rights Council’s first-ever resolution on anti-personnel landmines that was passed on April 4. The Ottawa Convention defines an anti-personnel mine as “a mine designed to be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a person and that will incapacitate, injure or kill one or [...]

Cambodian lawmakers unanimously passed a revised law on Tuesday that toughens penalties for anyone who denies atrocities, including genocide, by the former Khmer Rouge regime. According to the government, the legislation aims to prevent history from repeating itself, to promote remembrance of Cambodia’s past, and to provide justice to victims. The draft legislation, first approved [...]

The Cambodian government Friday approved a draft law that aims to punish those who ignore, minimize or deny the crimes committed by the communist regime between 1975 and 1979. Under the revised law, the civil penalty for genocide denial will now be increased to one to five years imprisonment and 10 million to 50 million [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday denounced the killing of a former Cambodian-French opposition politician in Bangkok, Thailand. Lim Kimya, a former member of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was shot by a gunman on Tuesday, as he arrived in Bangkok. Kimya, a vocal critic of the Cambodian government, was travelling from the Cambodian city of [...]

The approval of establishment of a hybrid special tribunal in The Gambia represents a significant development in the field of transitional justice, offering a potential model for other nations grappling with legacies of human rights abuses. This innovative mechanism, blending elements of international and domestic justice systems, aims to address the widespread violations committed during [...]

A Cambodian court on Thursday sentenced opposition party leader Sun Chanthy to two years in prison for inciting social unrest, according to local media. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court also permanently banned Chanthy, the president of the Nation Power Party, from voting or running for office, and fined him four million riels (approximately $1,000). The [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on the Cambodian government on Sunday to bring to justice those responsible for the murder of an environmental journalist, and to take decisive action to eradicate deteriorating violence against journalists in the country. The group strongly condemned the violence against local journalist Chhoeung Chheng, who died on December 7 in [...]

Thai authorities have forcibly returned six Cambodian political opposition activists and a young child, Human Rights Watch reported Friday. The forcible removal puts the activists at risk of mistreatment and unfair trials in Cambodia according to the group. The six activists and one activist’s five-year-old grandson were arrested in Thailand on Sunday and forcibly removed the [...]

At the fifth review of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty in Siem Reap, Cambodia, the international community raised concerns on Monday about the ongoing threats posed by the continued use of land mines. The treaty, commonly referred to as Ottawa Convention, was established in 1997 and sought to end global land mine production and deployment. [...]