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Still Banking on Land Grabs
Publication Year: 2016 / Sources: Oxfam AustraliaLand grabs — often involving forced evictions — are still taking place in some of the world’s poorest countries. This is having devastating impacts on the lives of vulnerable rural communities. Over the last 15 years, 40 million hectares have changed hands through large-scale land acquisitions — much of which is linked to agriculture and timber land grabs.
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Access to Justice for Children: Cambodia
Publication Year: 2016 / Sources: Child Rights International Network (CRIN)The Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia 1993 (the “Constitution”) does not explicitly determine the status and authority of international treaties. However, it requires the state to recognise and respect the rights stipulated in human rights conventions, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Child Rights International Network (CRIN) ranked Cambodia 166 out of 197 countries for the effectiveness of its courts in protecting children in 2015.
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Performance and Perception: The Impact of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
Publication Year: 2016 / Sources: Open Society FoundationsThis report attempts to examine both how the ECCC has performed, and how Cambodians perceive its performance. It seeks first to analyze the ECCC’s record to date in meeting its primary goal of providing justice to the victims of the KR by establishing credible accountability for the highest level perpetrators and thus ending impunity for the worst crimes of the KR. Second, this report examines the court’s record in meeting its secondary goals of contributing to an improved domestic justice system, healing and reconciliation for victims and perpetrators, and a better general understanding of what happened during the KR regime.
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Implementation of the International and Regional Human Rights Framework for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation
Publication Year: 2014 / Sources: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)Before the 1990s, the international community did not view violence against women in general and more specifically Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a major issue. If violence against women was recognized as an issue at all, it was seen as under the purview of national governments, not a subject of international law. Violence against women was widely viewed as a private act or a domestic matter carried out by private individuals. For this reason FGM was initially placed beyond the scope of international human rights law.
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2014 Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey Key Findings
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: National Institute of Statistics, Directorate General for Health and ICF InternationalThe objective of the survey was to provide reliable estimates on infant and child mortality, fertility preferences, family planning behavior, maternal mortality, utilization of maternal and child health services, health expenditures, women’s status, and knowledge and behavior regarding HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections that can be used by program managers and policymakers to evaluate and improve existing programs.
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