Posted by the Phnom Penh Post
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 15:03 Cameron Wells and Tharum bun

POLICE in Boeung Tumpun commune have forwarded to their superiors information about a group of ethnic Khmer Krom who say they are fleeing persecution in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region, and a representative of the group said Monday that he was planning to meet today with the commune chief to discuss their plight.

Posted by Human Rights Watch
Donors Should Speak Up to Protect Civil Society
January 21, 2010

(New York) - Cambodia's respect for basic rights dramatically deteriorated in 2009 as the government misused the judiciary to silence government critics, attacked human rights defenders, tightened restrictions on press freedom, and abandoned its international obligations to protect refugees, Human Rights Watch said today in its new World Report 2010.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/21/clinton.internet/index.html

(KKN: Currently, the khmerkrom.net and khmerkrom.org are blocked by the Vietnamese government in Vietnam.)

Washington (CNN) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Thursday that the latest information technology -- designed to open access to governments -- can also be used by those governments to "crush dissent and deny human rights."

Source: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010011930932/National-news/khmer...

A GROUP of ethnic Khmer Krom who say they are fleeing persecution in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region are making a public appeal to a UN-appointed rights watchdog, claiming Cambodian officials have not been receptive to their pleas for citizenship.

Source: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010011930936/National-news/no-ch...

KRT judges’ Case 002 decision based on procedural factors

GENOCIDE charges specific to the Khmer Krom will not be brought by the Khmer Rouge tribunal against the regime leaders awaiting trial, judges have ruled, sparking accusations that the suffering endured by the ethnic minority group has been overlooked by the court.

Source: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010011830904/National-news/k-kro...

AN ethnic Khmer Krom monk who says authorities are accusing him of distributing leaflets that deride the January 7 anniversary commemorating the fall of the Khmer Rouge said he has gone into hiding to flee arrest.

Source: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010011830906/National-news/right...

THE UN’s special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia is scheduled to begin his second official mission to the Kingdom today – a visit that marks a pivotal period in the rights watchdog’s relationship with government officials, observers say.

On Thursday, 18 February 2010, Cambodia will be reviewed by The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).

To learn more about the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, please visit: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/cerd.htm

This is a report of Cambodia:
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/docs/AdvanceVersions/CERD.C.KH...

On January 12, Freedom House released its findings from the latest edition of Freedom in the World, the annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties. According to the survey’s findings, 2009 marked the fourth consecutive year in which global freedom suffered a decline—the longest consecutive period of setbacks for freedom in the nearly 40-year history of the report. These declines were most pronounced in Sub-Saharan Africa, although they also occurred in most other regions of the world.

Source: http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=505

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