The Rights of Indigenous Cambodians

This paper will address four points relevant to indigenous rights and welfare: access to education; access to health services; political inclusion; and land rights. An overview of each topic and current challenges will be provided, along with the results of recent field research conducted by the PIC. Field research was conducted in Adoung Meas, Bar Kaev districts in Ratanakiri and Pech Chreada in Mondulkiri, highlighted in Map 1, below.

In broad terms, indigenous Cambodians have worse outcomes than the national average in terms of health, education and land related indicators, except for their political inclusion. However, efforts have been made to address this imbalance, most successfully in education. Cambodia is now considered a regional leader in providing effective education programmes to its indigenous population. Health related issues have also gradually been improving. However land rights issues are more complex(download).

Book Review : ASEAN and Human Trafficking. Case Studies of Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam

Author: Naparat Kranrattanasuit
Publication Year : 2014

Trafficking in persons is a serious crime that affects the human rights, dignity and integrity of all its victims including women, men, and children in the Association of Southeast Asia Nation (ASEAN) region. ASEAN has made efforts to fight human trafficking through inter alia the establishment of regional counter-human trafficking laws and human rights bodies to establish best norms and practices for its member countries. Nevertheless, the International Labour Organization (ILO) recently declared that there are more than 11.7 million forced labor victims in the Asia-Pacific region encompassing the biggest concentration of forced labour victims in the world.

This book is devided in 11 chapters.

• Preliminary Material

  • Source: pp i –xiv

• Introduction

  • Source: pp 1 –7

• Overview of asean and Its Influence on Community-Building between Internal and External Regions

  • Source: pp 8 –51

• asean’s Struggle to Combat Human Trafficking

  • Source: pp 52 –96

• Challenges of National Responses of asean Member States to Human Trafficking: Case Studies of Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam

  • Source: pp 97 –151

• A Proposal for asean Regional Reform: The Establishment of asean Declaration of the Promotion and Protection of Trafficking Victims (adtv) and asean Commission on The Promotion and Protection of Trafficking Victims (actv)

  • Source: pp 152 –209

• Conclusion

  • Source: pp 210 –214

• APPENDIX A: Comparative Table of Trafficking Law Provisions of the un Palermo Protocol and the National Anti-Human Trafficking Laws of Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam

  • Source: pp 215 –240

• APPENDIX B: asean Member Countries on Corruption

  • Source: pp 241 –241

• Bibliography

  • Source: pp 242 –278

• Index

  • Source: pp 279 –282