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Lawyer Training and Legal Professional Improvement of the Bar Association of the
Kingdom of Cambodia, and encourages the Government to provide access to justice
for all and establish a legal aid scheme appropriate for Cambodia;
Also welcomes the adoption of the Sub-Decree on Land Concessions for
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Social Purposes, and urges the Government of Cambodia to strengthen its efforts to
tackle the problems related to land rights by, inter alia, adopting the sub-decrees on
land concessions for economic purposes and on procedures for the reduction of and
specific exemptions from the land concessions that exceed 10,000 hectares,
enhancing transparency and giving high priority to the land management and
administration reform project, and to continue to undertake a review of land
concession contracts and their implementation, and notes with concern the
remaining problems of land-grabbing, forced evictions and further displacement;
Encourages further efforts by the Government of Cambodia to implement
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expeditiously and effectively its reform programme, including the Governance
Action Plan and police and military reforms, inter alia, the demobilization
programme;
Welcomes the progress made by the Government of Cambodia to
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eradicate anti-personnel landmines and to reduce the number of small arms in
Cambodia, and encourages the continuing efforts of the Government and the
international community to tackle these issues;
Expresses serious concern about the fact that the situation of impunity
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still exists in Cambodia, recognizes efforts and actions by the Government of
Cambodia to prosecute perpetrators of violations, and calls upon the Government, as
a matter of critical priority, to increase its efforts to investigate urgently and to
prosecute, in accordance with due process of law and international human rights
standards, all those who have perpetrated serious crimes, including violations of
human rights;
Notes with serious concern the prison conditions in Cambodia, notes
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with interest some important efforts to improve the prison system, recommends the
continuation of international assistance to improve the material conditions of
detention, and calls upon the Government of Cambodia to take further measures to
improve the conditions of detention, including reviewing sentencing policy and
developing non-custodial options as an alternative to imprisonment, to prevent any
form of torture, to provide proper food and health care to prisoners and detainees, to
meet the special needs of women and children and to restore access to prisons and
inmates for lawyers, family members and human rights organizations in accordance
with relevant regulations in force;
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Human rights violations and violence
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Expresses grave concern about the continued violations of human rights,
including torture, excessive pre-trial detention, violation of labour rights, forced
evictions and political violence, including the killings of political activists,
involvement by police and military personnel in violence and the apparent lack of
protection from mob killings, notes that some progress has been made by the
Government of Cambodia in addressing these issues, and urges the Government to
take all necessary measures to prevent such violations, including to consider
establishing a board of inquiry on the issue of mob killings;
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