Phnom Penh, 8 March 2022 – The right to adequate housing in Cambodia has not been fully respected, protected and fulfilled in relation to community relocation and resettlement – but new resettlement guidelines aim to help the Government provide a better standard of housing to evicted communities.
As a part of its technical cooperation with the Royal Government of Cambodia to support state institutions to respect and protect human rights, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Cambodia has launched a report on human rights and resettlement that also contain the guidelines and a recommendation to create an Inter-Ministerial Committee to address the identified challenges in a holistic manner.
See the full news release in Eng | Khmer and the full report in Eng.