Dealing with Human Rights Abuse in Cambodia

Running head: RESEARCH PROPOSAL
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Problem Statement.....................................................................................................................3
Research Rationale.....................................................................................................................3
Research Question......................................................................................................................4
Research Objectives...................................................................................................................4
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................4
Introduction of Human rights education................................................................................5
Structure of the Research...........................................................................................................6
Proposed Data Collection Method.............................................................................................8
Proposed Data Analysis.............................................................................................................8
Reference....................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The criminal justice system is the coordination of the institutions and the practices of
the government for the aim of maintaining social control and for ending crime or for
disciplining the people violating laws (Metzl, 2016). By way of the criminal justice system
the individuals being accused of any kind of misconducts are being punished through the
process of rehabilitation and criminal penalties. In the Cambodian justice system a higher
number of the criminal cases are seen as being listed. The reasons for the same can be said as
the participation of the citizens in the life of politics, mostly by the youths. In Cambodia
many women are seen as being subjected to multiple instance of injustice, where the basic
rights of a person can be said as to be violated (Rotabi, 2016). The prisoners for instance
are seen to face different types of injustice in their jail cells in Cambodia (Gillespie,
2016). An example of the injustice faced by the prisoners in the Cambodian prisons is
that they are not even provided the basic healthcare rights of proper medical service
(Marks, 2017).The children in the juvenile system are also seen as not being aware of
their rights and hence are exploited on a daily basis (Marks, 2017).
In the research a detailed analysis would be conducted on the criminal injustice that is
happening in the country with mention to the issues of human rights that the normal citizens
are facing because of these crimes. In the research discussions would be conducted about the
reform processes in the judicial system in Cambodia especially in relation to the reforms of
the human right issues. In the research the works of various researchers such as Chenda Keo,
Thierry Bouhours, Roderic Broadhurst, &Brigitte Bouhours would be usedas reference. In
their article they have been seen as examining the backgrounds of the human traffickers
drawing from the interviews with the justice officials, NGOs, and the traffickers who have
been detained (Marks, 2017). In furtherance the work of Christoph Sperfeldt would also

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bereferred in the research. In his article he has done a detailed study about the
internationalized criminal justice processes in relation to Extraordinary Chambers in the
Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) that can be seen as giving the victims an active role in the trial
process of the courts (Subedi & OBE, 2017). My study would be mostly focusing on the
human rights reform processes that could be effectively incorporated in the Cambodian
Justice system for better enforcement of the same with special reference to access of
rights or justice for prisoners.
Problem Statement
In the Cambodian justice system a higher number of the criminal cases are seen as
being listed. The reasons for the same can be said as the participation of the citizens in the
life of politics, mostly by the youths. Most politicians are also seen as being involved in
various crimes, such as corruption and the abuse of money and other resources for their own
benefits that were originally allocated for the welfare of the citizens. In Cambodia prisoners
are often faced with various in-justices in the prisons. An example of the injustice faced
by the prisoners in the Cambodian prisons is that they are not even provided the basic
healthcare rights of proper medical service. The problem lies in the fact that there is no
legal framework or framework of rights and duties under the Cambodian justice system
that appears to exist that will address this injustice, and it is the aim and purpose of this
particular project to uncover the various ways and means by which a rights based
approach can be adopted towards the treatment and rehabilitation of prisoners in
Cambodia, that includes even criminals accused of the most notorious misdoings.