The following organizations sent a joint open letter to Cambodia’s donors, which will participate in the Government-Development Partners Coordination Committee (GDCC) meeting on 26 September 2012: 1. Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA); 2. Civil Rights Defenders; 3. Dignity International; 4. Freedom House; 5. Global Witness; 6. Human Rights Now; 7. Human Rights Watch; 8. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders – a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT).

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[Statement in French] Le Chargé d’affaires de l’Ambassade de France s’est rendu, mercredi 22 août, dans la province de Kampong Chhnang, à l’invitation du bureau local de l’ONG ADHOC. Il souhaitait observer sur le terrain les progrès du programme d’aide juridictionnelle aux victimes actuellement financé par le fonds social de développement de l’Ambassade. Le programme de visite a permis des échanges avec l’équipe provinciale d’ADHOC et les avocats qui assurent cette aide juridictionnelle. Le Chargé d’affaires a aussi pu s’entretenir avec différents bénéficiaires de ce programme, victimes d’abus sexuels, de trafics d’êtres humains ou en conflits sur des questions foncières.

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On the 24th-26th of October 2011 ADHOC and TISCO University co-hosted a conference on the micro-justice toolkit at the Sunway Hotel in Phnom Penh. There was great diversity among the participants with representatives from organizations based in the Netherlands, Indonesia, Egypt, Somalia, Rwanda, Kenya, Thailand, Burma and Azerbaijan. Representatives from the Cambodian based organizations Cord, YRDP and Peace Bridges took part in the conference along with students from the Phnom Penh Royal University.

Micro-justice, which often takes the form of mediation, has been used to solve conflicts in Cambodia for centuries. However, no official records have been kept and so far no set of tools for dispute resolution outside the courts has been developed in a national context. The need for alternative ways of achieving justice in the Cambodian society has not changed and therefore ADHOC is collaborating with TISCO University to develop a micro-justice facilitator toolkit in the form of guidelines for effective dispute resolution.

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