CAMBODIA: The Situation of Human Rights in 2006

Asian Human Rights Commission

2006 is the 15th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords of 1991, which ended a protracted war in Cambodia. This report begins with a brief reference to these accords, as they constituted the basis and framework within which subsequent developments took place in Cambodia, before looking at some specific developments that characterise the situation of human rights in the country in 2006. These specific developments are:

• the emergence of a single dominant party;
• the increasing executive control of the judiciary;
• the rise of rule by decree;
• land grabbing;
• restrictions on the freedom of expression and related human rights;
• and, torture and abuses by security forces.

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