UN’s rights envoy to Cambodia Vitit Muntarbhorn who told the UN Human Rights Council that the civic and political space in the Kingdom has receded and regressed due to what is effectively an ‘all-intrusive single-party rule’. Of the 36 delegations present at the Oral Update of the UN Human Rights Council held on March 29, only eight were critical of the Kingdom’s civic and personal space while the 28 spoke in favour of the situation in the country, according to the Cambodian Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva.
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The South Korean government has pledged an additional concession loan package of $1.2 billion to finance a number of priority projects in Cambodia.
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Organizers of an international forum on global governance have expressed regret that Kem Sokha was refused court permission to attend the event in Germany, the former CNRP president’s lawyers say.
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