CAMBODIA ELECTIONS 2018 — PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA - JULY 29: Cambodians vote during an election that has been criticized by the US and the EU on July 29, 2018 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The opposition party, the Cambodia National rescue Party was dissolved and some politicians jailed, who were the only serious challenger to Prime Minister Hun Sen who has been in power since 1985. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Cambodia’s human rights record under spotlight in third Universal Periodic Review

January 31, 2019

Cambodia is among the 41 states whose human rights records are under scrutiny at the ongoing 32nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group. Cambodia’s report was delivered on 30 January by the Cambodian Human Rights Committee headed by Mr. Keo Remy, who is also an attaché to the country’s prime minister.

Cambodia’s first UPR took place in December 2009; its second in February 2014. At the latter, 205 recommendations were proposed by 76 countries, of which the government officially accepted 162 and took note of 43.

In full: https://www.ifex.org/cambodia/2019/01/30/upr-review/

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