Joint oral statement of the FIDH and the Forum Asia on Cambodia, at the 9th session of the Human Rights Council

Oral statement HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Ninth session Item 3 : RRI SRSG Cambodia Geneva, 12 September 2008 Mister President, The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), its members1 in Cambodia, the Cambodian League for the Promotion & Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) and the Cambodian Human Rights & Development Association (ADHOC), and Forum Asia support the renewal of the mandate of the Secretary General's Special Representative for Human Rights in Cambodia. We wish to draw the (...) - www.fidh.org [english]

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