Chea Sophal
22 March 2010
Phnom Penh, 22 March 2010, Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC) welcomes the decisions made by Cambodian Government to accept all 91 recommendations made in the 13th U.N. Human Rights Council Session in Geneva. The statement expresses that the acceptance of all recommendations by the Cambodian Government is an important sign of good faith and CHRAC asks the Government to undertake credible steps to implement many of those recommendations within the next four years until the next Human Rights Council Review.
Contributions were made by the Cambodian civil society and CRAC in particular on the field of human rights through Working Group Session of the Human Rights Council on 1 December 2009. It is the first time for Cambodia to be under Universal Periodic Review which is a new human rights monitoring mechanism of the U.N. Human Rights Council which places UN member states under peer review every four years. The accepted recommendations are now serving as significant benchmarks to monitor the progress in the implementation of the Government’s commitments.
The statement also highlighted that the Cambodian Government should consider creating a workplan to start to work on the recommendations and make priorities in relations to land rights, legal and judicial reform and the freedom of expressions. CRAC and civil society organizations expressed willingness to support the implementation through active participation and watchful monitoring of the process.
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