BABSEA Hosts International Launch Conference
to Launch The Cambodian Guide to Defending Land
and Housing Rights

 

The Cambodian Guide to Defending Land and Housing Rights

Last week, BABSEA and our partners from the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions and International Accountability Project co-hosted an international conference to launch the highly anticipated Cambodian Guide to Defending Land and Housing Rights: Volume I.  The Guide contains information and activities that help communities facing eviction understand their rights under national and international law, and develop skills and advocacy strategies to defend their rights. 


On October 26th we held a special event in Phnom Penh to launch the Guide, with a special presentation by Miloon Kothari, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing.  The event was followed by a four-day workshop for Cambodian community trainers, as well as participants from India, Indonesia, East Timor, Laos, Vietnam and Burma who are interested in developing similar resources in their countries. At the workshop, the Cambodian community facilitators network practiced teaching lessons on advocacy strategies from the 3rd Book in the three-book volume and they developed their plans for conducting community trainings across the country.  International participants learned how to use the Guide and how to develop their own popular education resources.  We also shared ideas and strategies for working across borders to build a regional movement in Asia to challenge unjust development and forced displacement through popular education and community empowerment.

 

Contents

 

Book 1- Your Rights Under International Law (Khmer + English)

  1. How to use Cambodian guide to defending land and housing rights
  2. Development and displacement
  3. Introduction to human rights
  4. The rights to adequate housing
  5. Eviction and your rights
  6. Glossary

Book 2- Your Rights Under Cambodian Law (Khmer + English)

  1. Classification of land
  2. Landowner rights
  3. Possession rights
  4. Indigenous community land rights
  5. Eviction and compensation under Cambodian law
  6. Contracts for land sale
  7. Glossary

Book 3- Defending your rights (Khmer + English)

  1. Defending your rights through registration and documentation
  2. Defending your rights through legal remedies
  3. Defending your rights through advocacy
  4. Glossary and appendix