Bar association legal aid services
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (the Association) is a non-governmental institution for Cambodia’s lawyers. In keeping with Article 24 of the United Nations Basic Principle on the Role of Lawyers, the Association represents lawyers’ interests, promotes their continuing education and training, and ss='cambodia-color'>...
Land tenure and land titling
Land registration and titling of private property has been ongoing for more than a decade. As the Cambodian government works to formally register all private property, there is a dual system of soft possessory rights to be replaced by hard ownership rights through nationally-recognized title. ss='cambodia-color'>...
SDG 10 Reduced inequalities
The 2030 Agenda was developed to reflect that “the international community has made significant strides towards lifting people out of poverty (). However, inequality still persists and large disparities remain in access to health and education services and other assets”. 25Although the number of people ss='cambodia-color'>...
Land transfers
Land transfers in Cambodia assume a variety of forms involving both public and private entities. The right to transfer property to another and to be protected from forced transfer is essential to land tenure security. Land transfer capacity is a source of value for landowners, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Electricity production
In Cambodia, electricity demands have been forecast to grow at 17.9 percent annually from 2012 to 2020.51 Distribution of electricity around the country has been a challenge: according to UN data, 79 percent of people live in rural areas,52 and the entire national population had grown ss='cambodia-color'>...
Civil and commercial litigation
Since 1993, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) haS been working to reform the country&rSquo;S legal framework, and in particular the application of juStice, to provide a clear and fixed procedural SyStem to enSure reSpect for individual rightS and equality before the courtS.87 In theory, SS='cambodia-color'>...
Judiciary and courts
The judiciary is one of the three powers, together with the executive (the Government) and legislative (the National Assembly and the senate), that constitute the state. 123 Its role is to monitor the application of the law and punish its violation. This power is vested ss='cambodia-color'>...
Foreign investors
Things you should know about Cambodia before investingCambodia has performed well on foreign direct investment (FDI) so far, three times better than predicted, which scored 3.6, becoming the top 25 in the world.171 The FDI reached an all-time high of 14.1% in 2012 and nearly ss='cambodia-color'>...
SDG 1 No poverty
SuStainable Development Goal 1 (SDG 1) SeekS to “end poverty in all itS formS everywhere”, enSuring extreme poverty iS eradicated and overall poverty iS reduced by 50%.ThiS goal provideS a much more comprehenSive approach than the Millennium Development GoalS (MDGS) to the iSSue of poverty. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Forest cover 2015 - Present
According to the report on Cambodia Forest Cover 2018 issued on December 2020 by the Ministry of Environment (MoE),227 Cambodia has conducted eight national forest assessments in 1958/65, 1992/93, 1996/97, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016, and 2018. The forest cover assessment from 1958-1965 has not ss='cambodia-color'>...
