Reuters AlertNet Lite - Cambodia rejects U.N. envoy's rights charges

Reuters AlertNet Full site

NEWSDESK

Cambodia rejects U.N. envoy's rights charges

01 Jun 2007 10:52:22 GMT
Source: Reuters

PHNOM PENH, June 1 (Reuters) - Cambodia rejected allegations by a United Nations investigator that human right violations, including assassinations and illegal restrictions on trade unions, were going unpunished.

"It cannot accept allegations which do not reflect the truth," the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

Yash Ghai, special representative of the secretary-general for human rights in Cambodia, had also failed to acknowledge the progress made in a country still recovering from decades of civil war, it said.

"The negative evaluation report was insulting the efforts of the government's supreme institutions," it said.

Gash, in a statement issued in Geneva on Thursday after a three-day visit to Cambodia, said what he called impunity for human rights violations continued to pose a threat to the rule of law.

He expressed alarm at "attacks and intimidation against members of the workers' movement in the course of the past year and about alleged "land grabbing" and government grants of concessions including mining licences on indigenous land.

AlertNet news is provided by

Email this article Send comments

Countries

Small country map
© 2004 Europa Technologies Ltd.

Reset map

• Cambodia profile
· View map

MORE >>

NGO latest

• Amputee Cyclist to Circumnavigate The Globe For War Victims
Clear Path International - USA

• Plan launched a worldwide camapign calling for action on girls' rights abuses
Plan UK

• Plan launched a worldwide camapign calling for action on girls' rights abuses
Plan UK

• Christian Aid joins green.tv
Christian Aid - UK

• Christian Aid comment on 5 April Gleneagles event
Christian Aid - UK

MORE >>

Latest news

• Cambodia rejects U.N. envoy's rights charges

• New HIV infections among homosexuals up sharply in HK

• SE Asia to propose new security tool for Asia-Pacific

• REFILE-WHO's Chan pledges fair access to bird flu vaccines

• REFILE-WHO's Chan pledges fair access to bird flu vaccines

MORE >>

Last updated:Fri Jun 1 10:53:37 2007