Evictions and resettlement processes have become major issues of concern in Cambodia, with serious consequences for the lives and well-being of individuals and communities. This booklet contains two key United Nations documents that specifically address these issues.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2009Cambodia
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2012Cambodia
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia (OHCHR) has undertaken the present study to measure the human and socio-economic costs and impacts of eviction and resettlement in Cambodia, and explore solutions based on the Royal Government of Cambodia's domestic laws and policies and international human rights treaty commitments.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2012Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Brunei Darussalam, Christmas Island, Timor-Leste, Cocos (Keeling) Islands
This review, prepared for the Special Rapporteur to Brazil, Raquel Rolnik, seeks to present a summary of the issues involved in addressing tenure security and insecurity. The report discuses adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination. In doing so, it reports on many studies and published sources, but also draws on personal experience. Prepared for an expert group meeting on Security of Tenure convened by the Special Rapporteur on 22-23 October 2012.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2007Cambodia
Instead of promoting rural development and poverty reduction, economic land concessions have compromised the rights and livelihoods of rural communities in Cambodia.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2012Cambodia
Twenty years after the Paris Peace Agreements, the Special Rapporteur takes stock of progress in Cambodia's human rights situation, with particular emphasis on land issues and land concessions. The report is based on missions to Cambodia in December 2011 and May 2012. The first enabled a human rights assessment of State institutions relevant to the electoral process in Cambodia, including the laws, policies and practices applicable to elections.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchCambodia
Three indigenous villages comprising 329 families in the northeast region of Cambodia have been granted communal land titles by the Royal Government, the first to be issued in the country. In a joint ceremony on 14 December 2011 in Rattanakiri province, community members of Le En village in Teun commune, Koun Mom district and La L'eun Kraen village in Ou Chum commune, Ou Chum district, received their certificates of collective land title for 1,454 hectares and 920 hectares, respectively.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2014Cambodia
Royal Government of Cambodia's comments and response to the Special Rapporteur's report on the human rights situation in Cambodia. Distributed 17 September 2014.
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