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Derailed: A Study on the Resettlement Process and Impacts of the Rehabilitation of the Cambodian Railways
A key objective of the 1995 ADB Policy on Involuntary Resettlement is to ensure that displaced people receive assistance “so that they would be at least as well-off as they would have been in the absence of the project.”149 Likewise, an overriding objective of the 2009 Policy is “to enhance, or at least restore, the livelihoods of all displaced persons in real terms relative to pre-project levels.” 150 The latter Policy also aims to “improve the standards of living of the displaced poor and other vulnerable groups.”151 These themes are repeated throughout the policies and are reflected in the Project Resettlement Plans.
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Economic Land Concessions and Local Communities
Evidences from all the four case studies suggest that the granting of ELCs usually overlapped the land local people claimed. The scope of overlapping ranges from farmland to homestead land. Indigenous People communities in particular are prone to such overlapping due to their conventional land use such as practice of shifting cultivation and their livelihoods are also vulnerable since they are more reliant on common resources such as forest.
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Report Summary on Assessment of NGO Participation and Representation in Technical Workin Groups (TWGs)
Resettlement Action Network (RAN), a network of NGO Forum on Cambodia, conducted a field survey to study resettlement impacts caused by the National Road No.1 Improvement Project, currently implemented by the government of Cambodia with assistance from Japanese Official DevelopmentAssistance. The Project requires the resettlement of more than 1800 households, and RAN has raised serious concerns over the resettlement impacts of the Project.
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Commune Councils
With Commune Council elections due on 3 June 2012, this fact sheet provides a timely overview of the Commune Council and the election process, highlights the total political control established by the governing party, and make recommendations for reforms to the political process.
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Annual Report 2011
KRT met with 867 civil parties in 2011 to provide training and information sessions on their rights and the ECCC proceedings. Four sessions were held in Phnom Penh with 43 civil parties attending and 22 sessions were held in the provinces with 824 civil parties attending.
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Violence against protestors must end now
The Cambodia Center for Human Rights (CCHR) condemns the shooting of three factory workers in Svey Rieng province on 20 February 2011 and calls for immediate steps to ensure that the use of violence against protestors is punished and brought to an end.
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Violence against protestors must end now
The Cambodia Center for Human Rights (CCHR) condemns the shooting of three factory workers in Svey Rieng province on 20 February 2011 and calls for immediate steps to ensure that the use of violence against protestors is punished and brought to an end.
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Violence against protestors must end now
The Cambodia Center for Human Rights (CCHR) condemns the shooting of three factory workers in Svey Rieng province on 20 February 2011 and calls for immediate steps to ensure that the use of violence against protestors is punished and brought to an end.
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