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Phnom Penh - Five international organizations Tuesday demanded the Cambodian government 'respect its international human rights commitments as well as UN officials mandated to monitor them' after it refused to meet a UN rights envoy this month.
Human Rights Watch, Asian Human Rights Commission, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, International Federation for Human Rights, and the World Organisation against Torture said they were concerned about the Cambodian government's refusal to engage with the UN special envoy on human rights to Cambodia, Yash Ghai.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has said that even if he lives for 1,000 years, he will not meet with the Kenyan and called him a tourist in speeches broadcast on state radio and television.
Following his last fact-finding mission earlier this month, government spokesman Khieu Kanharith joked that Ghai, who linked arms with non-government representatives and people facing eviction during his visit during International Human Rights Day rallies, should become an opposition party spokesman.
Ghai jas raised concerns that the government using the term 'development' as a euphemism for land grabbing and forced evictions, the groups said in a press release.
'Professor Ghai has drawn attention to critical concerns shared by the wider international human rights community,' Basil Fernando, executive director of the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission, said in the statement.
Sara Colm of Human Rights Watch said Ghai's findings are consistent with those of most donors, international rights groups and UN organs for many years.
'Yash Ghai is not an isolated maverick,' she said in the statement.
On Monday, Ghai said he remained willing to meet with government representatives, but the local Cambodia Daily newspaper Tuesday quoted senior lawmaker Nguon Nhel as saying Ghai had already shown very clearly that he was biased.
Human Rights Watch, Asian Human Rights Commission, Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, International Federation for Human Rights, and the World Organisation against Torture said they were concerned about the Cambodian government's refusal to engage with the UN special envoy on human rights to Cambodia, Yash Ghai.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has said that even if he lives for 1,000 years, he will not meet with the Kenyan and called him a tourist in speeches broadcast on state radio and television.
Following his last fact-finding mission earlier this month, government spokesman Khieu Kanharith joked that Ghai, who linked arms with non-government representatives and people facing eviction during his visit during International Human Rights Day rallies, should become an opposition party spokesman.
Ghai jas raised concerns that the government using the term 'development' as a euphemism for land grabbing and forced evictions, the groups said in a press release.
'Professor Ghai has drawn attention to critical concerns shared by the wider international human rights community,' Basil Fernando, executive director of the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission, said in the statement.
Sara Colm of Human Rights Watch said Ghai's findings are consistent with those of most donors, international rights groups and UN organs for many years.
'Yash Ghai is not an isolated maverick,' she said in the statement.
On Monday, Ghai said he remained willing to meet with government representatives, but the local Cambodia Daily newspaper Tuesday quoted senior lawmaker Nguon Nhel as saying Ghai had already shown very clearly that he was biased.
8 comments:
HAHAHA Try to tell Hun Sen to respect the human right? Talking a bout farmer educated man and raised from pagoda to khmer rouge, I praise this will be working with the Sen 's systems,may be fifty more years ,or it might not be exist.
Watch out! it reminds me when the Democratic of Cambodia (Khmer Rouge) cut diplomatic ties with UN agencies, civilized world and kept only its close friends such as China, VN and the dictators
Ban Ky-Moon. Where are you in this pictures.
We are Cambodians deserve the protection for his agency also. You say and play a lot with other country. With Ghai’s finding, the is still no reaction of the Ky-Moon. Cambodia is a member of the UN.
This is going to be Pol Pot Phase 2 of the Khmer rouge regime. Hun Sen is a Khmer rouge cadre. There will pictures of the Pol Pot Phase 2
Snubbed an old acquaintance is democratically uncceptable.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman told the press on December 11 that government officials were unable to meet Ghai during his visit because they were "busy trying to develop the country."
Only Ah Hanoi can give Ah Hun some advices or kill this animal.
Ah Hun RUDE Sen,Ah Khiev Phnek Kanharith, Ah Khiev Phnek Sopheak, Ah Chea Sam-Oy Sim, Ah Heng Sam-Oy ach-Rin, Ah Chan Hanoi Run, Ah Achtea Sakun, Ah Pra-Hok Lundy and more should be prosecuted in the international criminal court for crimes they've committed against humanity.
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