World Report 2011 - Human Rights Watch

WORLD REPORT 2011In March Cambodia officially accepted all 91 recommendations that UN memberstates made during the Universal Periodic Review of its rights record by the UNHuman Rights Council. Yet when the country representative from the UN HighCommissioner for Human Rights criticized the deportation of two Thais in June thegovernment threatened to expel him. According to the Foreign Minister, Hun Sendemanded the expulsion of the representative and closure of the office in a meetingwith the UN Secretary General in October. In September a report by the specialrapporteur on human rights in Cambodia strongly criticized the lack of judicialindependence.302