ANZ payment to displaced Cambodian families brings landmark human rights case to a close
On 03 November 2021, the Equitable Cambodia issued a press release on ANZ payment to displaced Cambodian families brings landmark human rights case to a close.Cambodian families who were forcibly displaced by Phnom Penh Sugar Company have received a promised payment from Australia’s ANZ bank, ...
Equitable Cambodia
Announcement on the distribution of the certificate of ownership of real estate and the annulment of the title deed of land use or title deed of real estate
On 07 August 2023, Takeo Provincial Administration issued an announcement on the distribution of the certificate of ownership of real estate and the annulment of the title deed of land use or title deed of real estate.The Department of land Management, Urban Planning, Construction and ...
Takeo Provincial Administration
Press release on meeting between Minister of MLUPC and representatives in land disputes
On 05 June 2018 H.E. Senior Minister Chea Sophara, Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction met with the representatives of 317 households who have had Land disputes with Koh Kong Plantation Co.,Ltd and Koh Kong Sugar Industry Co.,Ltd which located in Sre Ambel ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
Press release on identifying land owners in land disputes
On 18 May 2018 Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction set up a working group cooperated with Koh Kong province authority in order to identify the Land owners and Land plots related with Land disputes from 21 May 2018. The Land disputes happened ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
CCHR releases a new briefing note on business and human rights: Corporate accountability in land rights violations
On 25 December 2020, Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) released a new Briefing Note on Business and Human Rights entitled “Corporate Accountability in Land Rights Violations”. This Briefing Note examines the challenges in holding corporations accountable for Land-related human rights violations in the Kingdom ...
Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)
Notification on settlement of home confiscation
On 09 June 2023, the Real Estate Business & Pawnshop Regulator issued a notification on settlement of home confiscation.All clients who have purchased a house or condominium from a real estate development project and the owner of the real estate development project confiscated the house ...
Real Estate Business & Pawnshop Regulator
Press release on agreement to meet between MLUPC and representatives to seek solution in land disputes
On 24 May 2018 Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction agreed and met with the representatives of household in Land disputes with Union Development Co.,Ltd located in Botum Sakor district and L.Y.P.SEZ in Kiri Sakor district, Koh Kong province. The meeting aimed to ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announces ELCs tax revenues
On 25 July 2016, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced that by the end of the first half of this year, Ministry of Agriculture had collected about $600,000 in taxes from economic land concessions (ELCs) from 21 of the 233 private companies that received ...
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Press conference on the current management of economic land concession investment projects
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will hold a press conference on Wednesday 21 January 2015 at 10:00 a.m at the Office of the Ministry to inform the public of the current management of economic land concession investment projects. ...
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction petition in support of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on the verdict of Kem Sokha
On 03 March 2022, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has posted a petition in support of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on the verdict of Kem Sokha on their official social media site. According to the petition, all the civil servants under ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
Press release on land disputes between Memot Rubber Plantation Co Ltd and residents in Kratie province
On 24 October 2018, at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, Minister of Land Management together with the representatives of the Ministry of Interior, Kratie Provincial Administration, and the protesting representatives on regarding to Land disputes in the concession area, where the ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
Press release: discussion meeting between His Excellency CHEA Sophara and the EU Fact-Finding Mission on the Implementation of the Everything But Arms (EBA) Scheme
On 06 June 2019, His Excellency CHEA Sophara, with His Excellency Say Samal; representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Ministry of Commerce, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation met the EU Fact-Finding Mission on the Implementation of the ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction Cambodia
Press release on the outcome of the dispute resolution between the concessions sugar cane exporters and citizens in Preah Vihear
On 29 December 2017, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has released a press release on the outcome of the dispute resolution between the concessions sugar cane exporters and citizens in Preah Vihear. From 04 September to 03 October 2017, the Ministry ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
Joint statement on the stance of civil society in joining the observation of the process of housing resolution at Borei Keila community
We are the civil society organizations comprising of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC), Samakum Teang Tnaut (STT), Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF) and the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee (CHRAC) who make the following joint ...
Joint Organizations
Clarification on RFI's reportage
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction would like to make clarification on a reportage with a title “In Mondulkiri, the registration of the community Lands was slow since indigenous ethnic minorities did not have money to pay the authorities”, which was broadcasted ...
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
CCHR open letter regarding addressing land disputes in the Kingdom of Cambodia
I write to you regarding the speech you delivered on 18 August 2014 at the opening of the workshop on the national strategy for food security and nutrition 2014-2018. I welcome your commitment to find solutions to land disputes in the country. ...
Cambodian Center for Human Rights
CCHR releases a briefing note on business and human rights entitled "Preventing, Mitigating and Remedying Land-Related Rights Violations in the Kingdom of Cambodia"
On 20 December 2018, The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) released a briefing note on business and human rights entitled “Preventing, Mitigating and Remedying Land-Related Rights Violations in the Kingdom of Cambodia” on its website in both Khmer and English versions. As part of its business and ...
Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)
Eleven human rights defenders jailed
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, an FIDH-OMCT joint programme, said today that the Cambodian Government must end the repression of land rights defenders and immediately release those imprisoned on November 11-12. ...
Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders
Notification on the prohibition of clearing, burning, encroaching, occupying, buying and selling state lands, and illegally certifying state land in natural protected areas
On 12 September 2018, the Ministry of Environment issued a notification of prohibition of clearing, burning, encroaching, occupying, buying and selling state lands, and illegally certifying state land in natural protected areas.In order to strengthen the management of natural areas and legal rights of development investment ...
Ministry of Environment