16/07/2009
Source: UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
The UK has joined other development partners in calling on the Royal Government of Cambodia to halt forced evictions from disputed areas in Phnom Penh and elsewhere in the country.
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Development Partners are calling upon the Royal Government of Cambodia to stop forced evictions from disputed areas in Phnom Penh and elsewhere in the country until a fair and transparent mechanism for resolving land disputes is put in place and a comprehensive resettlement policy is developed.
Development Partners recognise that land issues are an ongoing challenge to development in Cambodia and urge the Government to adopt fair and transparent systems for land titling, including in urban areas, which recognize and protect the equal rights of all citizens.
Development Partners stand ready to support the establishment of national policy guidelines which would ensure that evictions and resettlement follow due legal process and provide just compensation to affected individuals.
The World Bank and a number of Development Partners have been working closely with the Government on securing land titling in Cambodia. The Government is commended for issuing more than one million land titles because this offers the opportunity for improved growth and poverty reduction.
However, in an environment of escalating urban land values in Cambodia and speculative land buying and selling, urban dwellers are under threat of being moved to make way for high value property development. This has become a major problem in Phnom Penh and other fast growing cities in Cambodia – creating uncertainty for, and putting at risk the livelihoods of, thousands of poor people living in disputed urban areas. This is a result of policies and practices that do not reflect good international practice in dispute resolution and resettlement and do not make effective use of the procedures and institutions allowed for in Cambodian law.
International experience has established that secure land tenure is vital in ensuring economic growth and reducing poverty and that fair, well-implemented resettlement processes are key to an effective land tenure and titling system and protecting the rights of all people.
Development Partners reaffirm their commitment to work with the Government to help address land issues in a just and equitable manner and to ensure that the rights of poor people are promoted and protected.
Signed by:
Embassy of Australia
Embassy of Bulgaria
Embassy of Germany
Embassy of the United Kingdom
Embassy of the United States of America
Embassy of Denmark / Danida
Swedish International Development Agency (Sida)
Asian Development Bank
Delegation of the European Commission
United Nations
World Bank
Read the statement
Development Partners are calling upon the Royal Government of Cambodia to stop forced evictions from disputed areas in Phnom Penh and elsewhere in the country until a fair and transparent mechanism for resolving land disputes is put in place and a comprehensive resettlement policy is developed.
Development Partners recognise that land issues are an ongoing challenge to development in Cambodia and urge the Government to adopt fair and transparent systems for land titling, including in urban areas, which recognize and protect the equal rights of all citizens.
Development Partners stand ready to support the establishment of national policy guidelines which would ensure that evictions and resettlement follow due legal process and provide just compensation to affected individuals.
The World Bank and a number of Development Partners have been working closely with the Government on securing land titling in Cambodia. The Government is commended for issuing more than one million land titles because this offers the opportunity for improved growth and poverty reduction.
However, in an environment of escalating urban land values in Cambodia and speculative land buying and selling, urban dwellers are under threat of being moved to make way for high value property development. This has become a major problem in Phnom Penh and other fast growing cities in Cambodia – creating uncertainty for, and putting at risk the livelihoods of, thousands of poor people living in disputed urban areas. This is a result of policies and practices that do not reflect good international practice in dispute resolution and resettlement and do not make effective use of the procedures and institutions allowed for in Cambodian law.
International experience has established that secure land tenure is vital in ensuring economic growth and reducing poverty and that fair, well-implemented resettlement processes are key to an effective land tenure and titling system and protecting the rights of all people.
Development Partners reaffirm their commitment to work with the Government to help address land issues in a just and equitable manner and to ensure that the rights of poor people are promoted and protected.
Signed by:
Embassy of Australia
Embassy of Bulgaria
Embassy of Germany
Embassy of the United Kingdom
Embassy of the United States of America
Embassy of Denmark / Danida
Swedish International Development Agency (Sida)
Asian Development Bank
Delegation of the European Commission
United Nations
World Bank
11 comments:
Land right in cambodia is a very serious problem. I visited Modukiri in 2005 and I saw smoke everywhere along the road from Snoul to Senmonorom. People were very busy to clear land for rich people from Phnom Penh. I talked to one resident there. He had moved to the provine a few years earlier. He said nothing left behind the small tree along the road. At that time one chinese company join with Pheapimex to clear land for pin plantation. The company used chemical product to kill grass, but it also killed animal that ate the grass. Back in phnom penh, many state properties have been sold in the name development. we as a people of cambodia have to support this statement.
It is my sincere hope that Cambodia will not be (yet) another commonweath nation of a foreign country (i.e., UK), because Cambodia is not the African nations.
PPU
Part of the bargaining has provided only more money to Hun Sen government...the donors proposed this, they have to give more money...when more money flow into government agency, the eviction and displacement will temporary stop and it increasingly starts again. This is just the culture of Hun Sen leadership.
So, how can we stop this recycling?
Very simple! stop vote for them, the CPP.
soon they will be disappeared...eeyore!
CPP is like a huge ponzi scheme. You lick one eyed hyena's ass and you get money and position. They lick your ass and you give money and position. And this flows down the packing order down to the local villages.Just like burma. That is why the one eyed hyena is such a staunch supporter of the military dictatorship. If Burma falls, then it is most certain one eyed hyena and his brood will be banished or executed.
Being poor and Cambodian is less value than a dog or cat in some countries. Hospital just keep the poor to die without helping, like the case of a pregnant woman in Pailin. In many case the poor have been imprisoned because of trying to protect their land or just chased away from city center. We as a human being should value everyone life. It is really sorry that Cambodian leaders are very immoral, but because we have people like PPU support them as well.
THERE SHOULD BE A SITE THAT LISTS ALL THE CURRUPTIONS DONE BY THE CPP/HANOI AND ALL THE DOCUMENTATION AGAINST.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Tortures
Executions
Massacres
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Overwork to Death
Slavery
Rapes
Human Abuses
Assault and Battery
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime had committed:
Assassinations
Assassinate Journalists
Assassinate Political Opponents
Murders
Killings
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and others military official on board.
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Remove Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Under Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed all of these crimes above within Hun Sen Khmer Rouge government have ever been brought to justice.
i think cambodia want a condition exchange from the UK for this demand. we want the UK to help to build and train cambodia and help build more modern infrastructure and train our students in all field of educations, etc... we want technical assistance from the UK as well as from the USA, the EU, etc... there is no free lunch, you know. god bless cambodia and all our beautiful khmer people and citizens.
I beg 1:41 AM to refrain yourself from posting the same thing many times any more. It is a discussion board, so please express your idea about the related article or react to previous comment.
CPP cannot be trusted,I believe we all remember vividly that"Citizens will be rich before govt(or who work for the govt).
Where are we now,it is the opposte that powerful people's relatives, friends and its cronies who are not just richer, but the richest.
I bet cambodians wake up to reality now than cheated by SLOGAN.
Neang SA
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