1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Cambodia Democracy and Human Rights Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) On October 23, 1991, Cambodia and 18 other countries signed the Comprehensive Cambodian Peace Agreement (commonly referred to as the Paris Peace Agreements ), which committed Cambodia to a democratic system of governance protected by a constitution and free and fair elections and stated that the people of Cambodia shall enjoy the rights and freedoms embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other relevant international human rights instruments . (2) Prime Minister Hun Sen has been in power in Cambodia since 1985 and is the longest-serving leader in Southeast Asia. Despite decades of international attention and assistance to promote a pluralistic, multi-party democratic system in Cambodia, the Government of Cambodia continues to be undemocratically dominated by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. (3) In 2015, the Cambodian People’s Party-controlled National Assembly adopted the Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organizations, which gave the Government of Cambodia sweeping powers to revoke the registration of nongovernmental organizations in the name of national unity , and which the government has used to restrict the legitimate work of civil society. (4) On August 23, 2017, Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs ordered the closure of the National Democratic Institute office in Cambodia and the expulsion of its foreign staff. On September 15, 2017, Prime Minister Hun Sen called for the withdrawal of all volunteers from the United States Peace Corps, which has operated in Cambodia since 2006 with approximately 500 United States volunteers providing English language and healthcare training. (5) The Government of Cambodia has taken several measures to restrict its media environment, especially through politicized tax investigations against independent media outlets that resulted in the closure of The Cambodia Daily and Radio Free Asia in early September