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Displaying 486 - 490 of 876Holding on: Security of tenure, types, policies, practices and challenges
This review, prepared for the Special Rapporteur to Brazil, Raquel Rolnik, seeks to present a summary of the issues involved in addressing tenure security and insecurity. The report discuses adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination. In doing so, it reports on many studies and published sources, but also draws on personal experience. Prepared for an expert group meeting on Security of Tenure convened by the Special Rapporteur on 22-23 October 2012.
Resettling Phnom Penh: 54 and counting?
This report provides select findings of an extensive survey of relocation sites in and around Phnom Penh, conducted in 2011 and 2012. The aim of the report is to highlight some key issues facing residents at existing relocation sites, and provide recommendations for both improving existing sites and improving future relocation practices, in cases when relocation is considered unavoidable. The report follows a previous 2007 report ‘Relocation sites in Phnom Penh’.
Eviction and resettlement in Cambodia: human costs, impacts and solutions
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia (OHCHR) has undertaken the present study to measure the human and socio-economic costs and impacts of eviction and resettlement in Cambodia, and explore solutions based on the Royal Government of Cambodia's domestic laws and policies and international human rights treaty commitments.
Growing pains: Urbanisation and informal settlements in Cambodia's secondary cities
This report takes a snapshot look at how urbanisation is impacting three of Cambodia's secondary cities – Sihanoukville, Battambang, and Siem Reap – and, in particular, their urban poor settlements. The report is based on desk review and field research. The report provides information on history, urban planning, urban poor settlements and interventions for each city.
CSO land reform monitoring
Paper prepared by Roel R. Ravanera for the Asian
NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural
Development (ANGOC) and Land Watch Asia
(LWA) examines progress in land reform in 8 countries n Asia.