Phnom Penh, 7th August 2014 On the occasion of the delivery of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal’s judgement against Khieu Samhpan and Nuon Chea Heinrich Boell Foundation spoke with Barbara Lochbihler, Member of the European Parliament and spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Human Rights of the Greens/EFA group.

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I am about to complete my 11th human rights fact‐finding mission to the Kingdom of Cambodia, the second since the National Assembly elections took place in July 2013. What I propose to outline are my initial findings and thoughts about the human rights situation in the country since my last mission. My final conclusions and recommendations will be contained in my report that I will present to the United Nations Human Rights Council in September this year.

The Heinrich Böll Foundation established cooperation with partner organizations in Cambodia as early as 1993. Since then the office in Phnom Penh has served as a link among stakeholders in order to facilitate dialogue, joint learning and collaborative action on issues related to ecology and sustainable development, democracy, human rights and gender. Since the beginning of 2010, the office in Phnom Penh has become a Country Office. We work together closely with the Asia Desk of the head office in Berlin, as well as the HBF country offices in Bangkok/Thailand, Kabul/Afghanistan, Lahore/Pakistan, New Delhi/India and Beijing/China.

One of the great challenges of the 21st century is to bring about global equity without further overstepping the planet’s ecological limits or overusing the earth’s finite resources.