Cambodia Campaigns

Cambodia: Rights Groups Urge 44 governments to seek Cambodia’s withdrawal of Draft NGO Law | Joint letter

Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada was among eleven international human rights organizations calling on 44 foreign governments and the European Union to press the Cambodian government to withdraw a proposed law that would severely limit the rights of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Cambodia. In a … [Read more...]

Cambodia: Civil Society Organizations Call for the Release of 12 Land Rights Defenders Imprisoned for Exercising Their Fundamental Freedoms | Joint Statement

Full PDF Version (English) | Full PDF Version (Khmer) 30 civil society organizations joined in advance of International Women’s day, to call for the immediate release of 12 Boeung Kak Lake land and housing rights activists imprisoned since May 2012 for exercising internationally protected rights to … [Read more...]

Cambodia: Judicial Harassment and Arbitrary Detention of Lor Peang Community Activists | Letter

Full PDF Version 2 September 2014 H.E. Hun Sen Prime Minister Office of the Prime Minister Phnom Penh, Cambodia Fax: +855 23 36 06 66 / 855 23 88 06 24 (C/o Council of Ministers); email: leewood_phu@nida.gov.kh; cppparty@gmail.com H.E. Sar Kheng Deputy Prime Minister and … [Read more...]

Event: International human rights, the Rule of Law and Cambodia’s Election Conflict | 23 April 2014

Poster (.pdf) Safeguarding the Independence and Integrity of the Bar, Courts and Tribunals: International Human Rights, the Rule of Law and Cambodia's Election Conflict Victoria April 23, 2014, noon to 1:15 pm Barristers’ Lounge, Victoria Courthouse, 850 Burdett Ave., Victoria, BC No … [Read more...]

Oral Statement to the 25th Session of the UN Human Rights Council: Human Rights Defenders under threat in Bangladesh and Cambodia | Statement

Full pdf version Date: 10 March 2014 HRC section: Agenda Item 3 Speaker: Ms. Vani Selvarajah Oral Statement to the 25th Session of the UN Human Rights Council from Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) & Lawyers for Lawyers (L4L), non-governmental organizations in special … [Read more...]

Catherine Morris, “Corporate Land-Grabbing & Fabricated Charges in Cambodia: What Can Canadian Lawyers Do?” | Paper

Full Text (pdf) On 12 February 2014, Catherine Morris spoke to the International Assistance Section of the Canadian Bar Association in Vancouver. To illustrate the work of Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada, Ms. Morris used illustrations from LRWC's advocacy regarding Cambodia, concluding with a … [Read more...]

Cambodia: The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Opinion Concerning the Arbitrary Detention of Yorm Bopha

Full PDF Version Detention of Yorm Bopha arbitrary: The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in the opinion released 29 November 2013 (A/HRC/WGAD/2013/), found that the imprisonment in Cambodia of land rights activist Yorm Bopha, was arbitrary detention under category II ( … [Read more...]

Cambodia: YORM Bopha: Submission to the Cambodia Supreme Court

Khmer version .PDF | English version .PDF   H.E. Dith Munty President , Supreme Court of Cambodia Sothearos Road Sangkat Chaktomouk, Khan Daun Penh Phnom Penh, Cambodia  Amicus Brief re: YORM Bopha: Submission to the Cambodia Supreme Court  Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) … [Read more...]

Cambodia: Police Behaviour at Protest of SL Garment Factory Workers | Letter

Full PDF Version | Photo courtesy of LICADHO 13 November 2013 H.E. Hun Sen Prime Minister Office of the Prime Minister Phnom Penh, Cambodia Fax: +855 23 36 06 66 / 855 23 88 06 24 (c/o Council of Ministers); email: leewood_phu@nida.gov.kh H.E. Sar Kheng Deputy Prime Minister and … [Read more...]

Cambodia: Killing & Attacks on Demonstrators; Violations of rights to freedoms of assembly and expression | Letter

Full pdf version H.E. Hun Sen Prime Minister Office of the Prime Minister Phnom Penh, Cambodia Fax: +855 23 36 06 66 / 855 23 88 06 24 (C/o Council of Ministers); email: leewood_phu@nida.gov.kh; cppparty@gmail.com H.E. Sar Kheng Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of … [Read more...]