Governing Civil Society in Cambodia: Implications of the NGO Law for the “Rule of Law”

Curley, Melissa

doi:10.1080/10357823.2018.1457624

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“…Thirdly, both government and civil society actors participated in the workshops in each country, with implications regarding the participants speaking freely. The challenge for civil society organizations to air their opinions without fear of consequences is reflected in the arrest of activists in the region, but also recent legislation that potentially further curtails the work of civil society such as the Law on Associations and Non-governmental Organizations (2015) in Cambodia [48], and the Decree on Associations (2017) in Lao PDR [49]. This challenging environment may not at times be reflected in the scores, as demonstrated in global assessments by Transparency International [7] on perceptions of corruption, the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators [36] and EIU's Democracy index [8] where most of the GMS countries score poorly (Table 1).…”

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Assessing Forest Governance in the Countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion

Gritten¹,

Lewis

Breukink³

et al. 2019

Forests

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The forest landscapes of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) are changing dramatically, with a multitude of impacts from local to global levels. These changes invariably have their foundations in forest governance. The aim of this paper is to assess perceptions of key stakeholders regarding the state of forest governance in the countries of the GMS. The work is based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the perceptions of forest governance in the five GMS countries, involving 762 representatives from government, civil society, news media, and rural communities. The work identified many challenges to good forest governance in the countries in the region, as well as noting reasons for optimism. Generally speaking, there was a feeling that the policies, legislation, and institutional frameworks were supportive, but there are numerous challenges in terms of implementation, enforcement, and compliance. The work also presents a program of activities recommended by the research participants to address governance challenges and opportunities in the GMS countries. These include the development of a forest governance monitoring system, and initiatives that support informed decision-making by forest product consumers in the region as well as the implementation of a capacity development program for non-state actors (e.g., civil society, news media) to ensure they are more able to support the diverse, and often demanding, forest governance initiatives.

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Section: Methodological Challengesmentioning

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Assessing Forest Governance in the Countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion

Gritten¹,

Lewis

Breukink³

et al. 2019

Forests

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“…Instead, the Cambodian Supreme Court recently dissolved the main opposition party 14 and the government regulates non-governmental organizations in a way that is described as a "crackdown." 15 In contrast to the transitional justice paradigm, according to which ICL contributes to a move towards liberal democracy, Cambodia seems to be going in the opposite direction-irrespective of the ECCC. Yet, this conflation in transitional justice discourse between court practices and liberal democracy does not mean the ECCC has been insignificant or meaningless.…”

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Visualizing Law and Justice at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

Elander

2020

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The body is falling backwards, facing the sky. The hands are clasped together in a sampeah, as if in greeting, as if in prayer. For the artist of the Cambodian Tragedy Memorial, also called A ceux qui ne sont plus là (For those who are no longer here), the body “speak[s] both to and beyond individual identity.” By standing both as personal testimony of loss and “in memory of the Cambodian genocide and its impossible representation,” the memorial raises longstanding questions on the authority and limits of testimony, on representation, and, importantly for this symposium, on the relation between art and international criminal law.

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“…Por lo tanto, el punto de partida de la construcción de un régimen democrático era frágil y endeble, e implicó negociar acuerdos complejos en un país atravesado por conflictos civiles con un grado de violencia único en el siglo XX (Curley, 2018). El experimento de las Naciones Unidas se desarrolló en el marco de lo que se conoce como «pacificación liberal», es decir que se buscó la consolidación de la paz dentro del territorio.…”

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Autocratización en Tiempos De Pandemia: El Caso De Camboya

Lamarque¹,

Noce²,

Povse³

2021

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La gestión gubernamental de la pandemia de COVID-19 ha propiciado la puesta en marcha de poderes extraordinarios bajo estados de emergencia. Hasta el momento, los estudios provenientes de la ciencia política han hecho referencia a esta problemática, haciendo foco en las respuestas a la pandemia según los diferentes regímenes políticos, y señalando cuáles han sido más o menos eficientes. En cambio, el análisis sobre los efectos de la pandemia sobre el tipo de régimen no ha sido un tema de investigación abordado con el mismo interés. Este trabajo se propone describir cómo la pandemia ha impactado en el régimen político, a través del análisis del caso de Camboya. Allí se evidencia un régimen que profundiza su carácter autocrático de forma progresiva y constante, incluso en tiempos de pandemia. El presente trabajo, por lo tanto, tiene tres objetivos: analizar las ventajas y limitaciones del concepto «autocratización»; explicar los cambios de régimen en Camboya desde la Autoridad Provisional de las Naciones Unidas en Camboya, y determinar en qué medida la pandemia ha sido un pretexto para continuar con el proceso de autocratización

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Governing Civil Society in Cambodia: Implications of the NGO Law for the “Rule of Law”

Cited by 26 publications

References 28 publications

Assessing Forest Governance in the Countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion

Assessing Forest Governance in the Countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion

Visualizing Law and Justice at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

Autocratización en Tiempos De Pandemia: El Caso De Camboya

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