Publication : Press Release

Despite some progress with land reform in Cambodia in the last 10 years, insecurity of land tenure remains widespread. Hardly a day goes by without the media reporting on land disputes and loss of livelihoods as people are forcibly displaced to make way for logging, industrial-scale farming, resource extraction and infrastructure projects. “This is one of Cambodia’s most persistent human rights and development challenges,” said Chak Sopheap, Executive Director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), adding that “land tenure security is the key to lifting millions out of poverty and food insecurity.”

Information Source : Cambodian civil society organisations to focus on land rights to strengthen local communities’ ability to secure land threatened by commercial exploitation and infrastructure projects.

• CCHR, CWDCC, BCV, ActionAid Cambodia