A Transparent and Accountable Judiciary to Deliver Justice for All
Publication Year: 2016 / Sources: U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre and UNDPThis report by UNDP and U4 highlights experiences from Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Indonesia, Kenya, Kosovo, *Nepal, Nigeria, Paraguay, Philippines, and Somalia in promoting transparency and accountability within the judiciary. It looks at codes of conduct and internal oversight mechanisms for strengthening integrity and accountability, such as judicial councils, and the vetting of judges as an instrument of last resort in contexts of transitional justice. The report also explores the potential of inclusive approaches and the use of new technologies to involve the broader community in judicial reform processes.
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Statement by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia
Publication Year: 2016 / Sources: Professor Rhona Smith - United Nations Human Rights CouncilThe United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith, called on the Cambodian authorities to further strengthen the protection of women and indigenous peoples’ rights in the country.
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A Human Rights Analysis of the Draft Law on Trade Unions
Publication Year: 2016 / Sources: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in CambodiaThe present analysis is a contribution to the consideration of the draft law. It provides an analysis of some key aspects of the initiative, in order to provide constructive elements to the process of drafting the Law on Trade Unions, which integrates the relevant international human rights standards.
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Legal Analysis: Cambodia’s Law on Telecommnications
Publication Year: 2016 / Sources: Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO)The new Law on Telecommunications (“Telecoms Law”) poses a severe threat to freedom of expression in Cambodia, targeting not only online public expression but also any private communications made using telecommunications devices.
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Enabling Environment for Local Development Actors
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: Cooperation Committee for Cambodia and Advocacy and Policy InstituteEnabling environment is the new development trend in democratic development. Whilst Cambodia following several reform through the rectangular strategy at the national level, and decentralization and deconcentration for better develop at sub-national administration. Moreover, the roles of CSOs are important notice as they play one of the key development actors.
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Handbook for Human Rights Treaty Body Members
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: United Nations High Commissioner for Human RightsBeing a human rights treaty body member is highly rewarding. The treaties and the work of the treaty bodies underpin the international human rights system. A treaty body member is at the centre of the interpretation and application of international human rights treaty law, and contributes to the promotion, protection and implementation of human rights at the national level.
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Gender-Based Violence in Ethnic Minority Communities
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: CARE CambodiaGender-based violence against women and girls is a pervasive violence of human rights that persists in every country in the world and cuts across all socio-economic groups. Having roots in historical and structural power relations between males and females, it is characterized by the use and abuse of power and control in public and private spheres and is linked to gender stereotypes.
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Child Safeguarding Standards and How to Implement Them
Publication Year: 2014 / Sources: Keeping Children SafeThe first Child Safeguarding Standards were launched over 12 years ago by a coalition of relief and development charities that later became known as Keeping Children Safe.
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The Rule of Law Index Report – Cambodia – From 2012 to 2015
Publication Year: 2012 to 2015 / Sources: The World Justice ProjectThe Index is the world’s most comprehensive data set of its kind and the only to rely solely on primary data, measuring a nation’s adherence to the rule of law from the perspective of how ordinary people experience it.The Index is intended for a broad audience of policy makers, civil society, practitioners, academics, and others. The rule of law is not the rule of lawyers and judges; all elements of society are stakeholders.
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Recognition of Gendered Experiences of Harm at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia: The Promise and the Pitfalls
Publication Year: 2016 / Sources: Diana SankeyForty years after the beginning of the Khmer Rouge regime, the recent Trial Chamber judgment in case 002/01 before Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) has provided legal recognition of the devastating violence of the forced population movements. However, despite the undoubted significance of the judgment, it represents a missed opportunity to more fully reflect issues of gender.
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