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PM Urges UN Special Rapporteur to Stay Out of Cambodia’s Human Rights Issues

  • Posted Jun 3, 2023 16:01 by EAC News
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KANDAL: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said that UN Special Rapporteur Vitit Muntarbhorn should look at his own country’s human rights situation before discussing what is going on in Cambodia. Vitit Muntarbhorn is a professor of international law from Thailand who has worked with the UN on violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity since 2016.

Speaking to more than 17,000 workers at CAM TON Industrial Park in the Kandal province, the PM expressed his distaste for Prof. Muntarbhorn’s interest in human rights in Cambodia, saying, “I do not want you to talk too much about me and misrepresent the truth in Cambodia." He went on to advise Prof. Muntarbhorn to talk about human rights issues in Thailand rather than in Cambodia.

This is not the first time that the Prime Minister of Cambodia has advised a UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in such a manner. In 2014 Sorya Subedi, who is from Nepal, received the same advice.


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