Summary

This is the third report submitted by Vitit Muntarbhorn, holder of the mandate of Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia. The theme of the present report is “Electoral vibrations and generational reverberations”. The Special Rapporteur traces the path from the 2022 commune elections to the 2023 national elections and then reviews the implementation of the 20 human rights-related benchmarks identified in the previous report. A key challenge for implementation is the intergenerational power shift in the country, which is interwoven with the political and electoral processes, and coupled with the constrained civic-political space; some progress has been made, however, on the socioeconomic front. The Special Rapporteur then issues his intergenerational call to all to abide by the principles of democracy and human rights.