Issues in Cambodia: Land Rights

Table of Contents
Concept Note of Issues
Land Law 2001
Land Concession
Forced Eviction
Land Dispute
Sources

Overview
In Cambodia today, hundreds of thousands of people are being removedfrom their homes, farmlands, forests, and fisheries as the country’s ruling elites and foreign investors plunder the country for private profit in the name of “ development “ 1
In rural areas, at least 3 million hectares-more than half of Cambodia’s total arable landmass-has been granted to private companies as concessions for development of agro-industrial plantation and mining project. 2
Poor and at-risk people are unable to use their full rights to claim their land because of corrupted legal practice in Cambodia

Land Law 2001
Was declared to be urgent and signed by :
King Norodom Sihanouk
PM – Hun Sen
Minister of Land Management , Urban Planning, and Construction, IM Chhun Lim
This law contains 19 chapters and 268 articles with different provisions.
However, only some specific provisions will be discussed.

Land Law 2001
Article 48 : A land concession is a legal right established by a legal document issued under the discretion of the competent authority given to any natural person or legal entity or group of person to occupy a land and to exercise thereon the rights set forth by this law.

Land Law 2001Article 49

Land Law 2001

Land Concessions

Forced Eviction
Cambodia is party to the International Covenant on Economic, Social ad Cultural rights (ICESR) and other international human rights treaties which prohibit forced eviction and related human rights violations
Also party to the International Covenant on Civil Political rights (ICCPR)
Regardless, forced eviction has been carried out without adequate notice and consultation with those effected, without legal safe guards and assurances of adequate alternative accommodation

Forced Eviction

Land Dispute
In 2005, it was estimated that one in fifteen Cambodian households was involved in a land dispute. (Oxfam GB,2005)

Sources
1 Licadho, The Myth of Development,2009.
2 www.sithi.org
Land Law 2001
NGO forum
Others

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http://www.slideshare.net	2
http://www.mongodb.org	2
http://pibatef.com.br	1
http://flow3.typo3.org	1
http://blog.naver.com	1

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