Cambodia: Rights Council Should Ensure Strong Resolution, Monitoring and Reporting

Thank you. Cambodians are facing a human rights crisis, with all the hard-fought freedoms gained in the past decades rapidly disappearing. Human Rights Watch agrees with the UN Special Rapporteur’s analysis that, within her one-year reporting period, the Cambodian government has failed to take effective actions to reverse its repressive crackdown on critical and independent voices in Cambodia, which has significantly restricted Cambodians’ civil and political rights. Following the sham elections in July 2018 in which the main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Committee (CNRP) was dissolved by…

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