Original report from Phnom Penh
20 January 2010
UN human rights envoy Surya Prasad Subedi on Wednesday encouraged Cambodia’s leading rights organizations to establish better cooperation with the government in an effort to improve the country’s rights situation.
“We support a cooperation mechanism between the government and non-governmental organizations,” said Ou Virak, head of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. “It is very important to promote and protect human rights and to reduce the tension between the government and non-governmental organizations.”
The government has a prickly relationship with many rights groups, seeing them as critical naysayers aligned with the opposition.
Rights groups have been sharply critical of the government’s record of rights violations, such as forced evictions, arrests of protesters and threats against rights leaders.
Subedi, the UN’s special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodian, arrived Monday on a two-week mission.
In a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen Tuesday, Subedi suggested similar cooperation, according to Om Yentieng, head of the government’s human rights committee.
“We support a cooperation mechanism between the government and non-governmental organizations,” said Ou Virak, head of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. “It is very important to promote and protect human rights and to reduce the tension between the government and non-governmental organizations.”
The government has a prickly relationship with many rights groups, seeing them as critical naysayers aligned with the opposition.
Rights groups have been sharply critical of the government’s record of rights violations, such as forced evictions, arrests of protesters and threats against rights leaders.
Subedi, the UN’s special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodian, arrived Monday on a two-week mission.
In a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen Tuesday, Subedi suggested similar cooperation, according to Om Yentieng, head of the government’s human rights committee.
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Ho Nam hong (born November 15, 1933 in lao cai honoi ) is the foreign minister of Cambodia since 1998. He was also foreign minister from 1990 until 1993. He is a member of the Cambodian People's Party.
Namhong is Married, having 5 Children.
[edit] Education
· Diploma of Ecole Royale d' Administration (Diplomatic Section) · Master of Law at the Faculty of Law in Paris · Diploma of the Institute of High International Studies (University of Paris)
[edit] Appointments
1967 - 1973 Royal Embassy of Cambodia and Mission of GRUNC in Paris
1973 - 1975 Ambassador to Cuba
1975 - 1979 Khmer Rouge
1980 - 1982 Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
1982 - 1989 Ambassador to the former USSR
1987 - 1991 One of the key negotiators in the peace talks to end the "Cambodia Conflict"
1989 - 1990 Minister of the Council of Ministers in charge of Foreign Affairs
1990 - 1993 Minister of Foreign Affairs
1991 - 1993 Member of the Supreme National Council of Cambodia and Minister of Foreign Affairs
October 1991 Signatory to the Paris Peace Accord
1993 Senior Minister of the Provisional National Government
1993 - 1998 Ambassador of the Kingdom of Cambodia to France
1998 - 2004 Member of the National Assembly, Senior Minister,
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
2004 Member of the National Assembly, Deputy Prime Minister,
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
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