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Practical Grassroots Advocacy in Cambodia Analysis of 80 Case Studies
Respondents reported several different types of advocacy cases in their communities. Responses to individual questions yielded different answers, depending on whether they were cases on land, forestry, fisheries, mining or other matters. More specifically, the causes, perpetrators, activities and results all varied depending on the type of case.
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Concern about the Forced Evictions of Urban Poor Communities in Phnom Penh
The Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC), The Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), and The NGO Forum on Cambodia (NGO Forum) wish to express their deep concern about potential forced evictions of the urban poor people from their communities in the near future.
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INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY DEC 10, 2009
More than 10,000 Cambodians from communities around the country, including trade unionists, students, farmers, fishermen, musicians, youths, tuk tuk drivers, motorcycle drivers and NGO workers, will celebrate International Human Rights Day (IHRD) in their communities this year.
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Congratulation of the 61st Anniversary of Human Rights Day
“We all need freedom of expression and justice” and “Embrace diversity and end discrimination” throughout the Kingdom of Cambodia.
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Press Release on National Conference (Khmer)
The national conference to change victims people to a power citizen by join in court.
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A Home No More
"In February 2007, the Municipality of Phnom Penh granted a 99-year lease to the private developer Shukaku Inc. for 133 hectares of prime city-centre real estate in the capital’s Daun Penh district. The area included Boeung Kok lake, one of the few remaining natural lakes in the city, and home to some 20,000 people. Shukaku Inc. reportedly paid US$79 million for the land. Soon after, the company poisoned the morning glory many of the residents were growing on the lake as their livelihoods. In August 2008, the Government changed the status of the land from state public to state private land. Adequate reasons for this change of status were not provided and the change in fact rendered the Shukaku lease null and void. Within days filling of the lake began – using sand drawn up from the Mekong. Residents were given three options: cash compensation of US$8500, a plot in Damnak Troyung relocation site along with US$500 cash, or on-site re-development, but only after five years of temporary residence in a relocation site. Despite intimidation and violence against them, the residents protested. They appealed to to local courts, the government, the company, the Prime Minister, and even UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Nothing worked. With increasingly flooded and uninhabitable homes, more and more residents started succumbing to the pressure. In most cases, they left poorer futures having signed away land and property worth tens of thousands of dollars for US$8000 and some transportation costs. This publication documents some of the (former) residents stories."
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World Report 2009
The rural and urban poor continue to lose their land to illegal concessions awarded to foreign firms, government officials, and those with connections to government officials. This has become one of the most critical economic and social problems in Cambodia. In Phnom Penh, 85,000 people have been forcibly evicted during the last 10 years, with another 70,000 currently facing eviction proceedings. Authorities often provide insufficient notice of impending evictions and inadequate housing and compensation to displaced people afterwards.
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Cambodia - Amnesty International Report 2009
Impunity, inadequate rule of law and serious shortcomings in the court system continued to cause a systemic lack of protection for human rights. Forced evictions, carried out with the direct involvement or complicity of government authorities, further impoverished thousands of marginalized Cambodians. Human rights defenders and community activists defending land and natural resources were imprisoned on baseless charges. Freedom of expression and assembly were restricted.
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The 8 Khan Survey
"This survey reveals that the past ten years has seen a major shift of urban poor settlements from the inner to the outer Khans(districts) of Phnom Penh. The shift in the past 6 years has been particularly marked. Some commentators link this development to successful Government policies in poverty reduction. Others however highlight the displacement of over 100,000 residents since 2000 (source: Facts & Figures 11, published April 2009 by STT)."
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Two Chi Kraeng Men Sent to Prison for Land Dispute Row
Two men in Siem Reap province were sentenced to one year each in prison and ordered to pay a combined total of 3 million riels (US$722) in compensation after the provicial court on Tuesday found them guilty of injuring two men in a March altercation stemming from an ongoing land dispute. The court acquitted seven other men arrested in the same case.
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