The extreme restrictions on civil and political rights implemented since 2017 intensified, with the new State of Emergency Law adding to a legal framework which severely impinges upon human rights. Human rights defenders, peaceful demonstrators and members of the banned opposition party continued...

This submission has been prepared in advance of the consideration by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at its 73rd session of the second periodic report on Cambodia’s implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The submission provides...

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch call on the Cambodian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release from detention Chhim Sithar, leader of Labor Rights Supported Union (LRSU) of Khmer Employees of NagaWorld and drop all charges against her. She is being detained solely for her...

Cambodia lost nearly 2.5 million hectares of tree cover between 2001 and 2020. Illegal logging in Cambodia is posing an existential threat to the country’s remaining primary forests. In addition to the well-documented threats which this poses to biodiversity and climate, it also entails severe...

Amnesty International statement in response to the first report of the new Special Rapporteur on Cambodia, Professor Vitit Muntarbhorn.

An open letter to members of the UN Human Rights Council calling attention to the ongoing human rights crisis in Cambodia and calling for support at the upcoming 48th session of the Council to ensure that the resolution on Cambodia effectively reflects the significant deterioration of the human...

On the fifth anniversary of the unlawful killing of prominent Cambodian political commentator and human rights defender Kem Ley, 45 organizations call for the Cambodian authorities to create an independent Commission of Inquiry tasked with conducting an independent, impartial and effective...

Amnesty International, along with eleven other international human rights organizations, call on the Cambodian government to immediately stop its assault on freedom of expression in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In recent months, the government has warned against public criticism of its...

In response to growing Covid-19 outbreaks in Cambodia’s notoriously overcrowded prisons, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch again call on the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) to take urgent action to safeguard the right to health of people in detention, prison officials and the wider...

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) call on the Royal Government of Cambodia to take urgent action to safeguard the right to health of people in detention, prison officials and the wider community by conducting...

Free arbitrarily detained media workers, restore media licenses. In this joint statement, 57 non-governmental organizations express their deep concern about the Cambodian government’s harassment of independent media outlets and their journalists. The government should immediately drop the...

As representatives of organizations working to promote women’s rights and gender equality in Cambodia, we wish to express our deep concern regarding numerous articles within the Draft Law on Public Order (DLPO), provisions of which violate women’s human rights. We therefore also endorse and echo...

65 national and international organizations and communities, call on the Royal Government of Cambodia (“RGC”) to immediately discard the repressive draft Law on Public Order and uphold its obligations under international human rights law. The draft law contains an extensive array of provisions that...