**NEW** Click here to for information about the Cambodian Community Guide to Defending Land and Housing Rights - a new resource by COHRE and partners for communities threatened by forced displacement.

Click here to read COHRE and partners' new report on the land sector on Cambodia, “Untitled: Tenure Insecurity and Inequality in the Cambodian Land Sector”.

Click here to see for COHRE's new documentary on evictions in Cambodia - Cambodia for Sale: Stop Evictions**

While Cambodia has made political and economic progress since the UN administration period of the early 1990s, many of the essential ingredients for the realisation of the right to adequate housing remain absent:

• evictions and forcible confiscation of land continue to rank as one of Cambodia's most pervasive human rights problems
• security of tenure is weak or absent for urban poor communities
• despite developments in the legislative framework, wide-scale flouting of land laws prevails
• spiralling land speculation has resulted in ever-increasing demand for land in prime urban areas, particularly in Phnom Penh
• land grabbing by a powerful and wealthy elite - to the severe detriment of local communities - has reached epidemic proportions

This site contains a number of resources relating to housing rights in Cambodia, including publications, protest letters, media releases and films.

Other information on the COHRE website about Cambodia includes:

• COHRE special page on the Dey Krahorm eviction of 24 January 2009.
• COHRE's statement on the Dey Krahorm eviction (29 January 2009).
• A joint open letter by COHRE, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Amnesty International and Human Rights Warch on the Boeung Kak Lake eviction (4 December 2008).
• A joint statement by COHRE and Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia on evictions in Sihanoukville (18 May 2008)
• A 2007 feature story on evictions in Cambodia

COHRE contact details:

COHRE Asia and Pacific Programme
PO Box 2061
Phnom Penh 3
Cambodia
COHREAsia@cohre.org

COHRE Partners

Housing Rights Task Force
C/o Office:#54, Street 306,
P.O.Box: 1120, Phnom Penh,Cambodia
cam.hrtf@gmail.com

Bridges Across Borders South East Asia

Community Legal Education Centre

Sahmakum Teang Tnaut

Licadho and Licadho Canada

NGO Forum of Cambodia