Officials to Map Bunong Land for Communal Titles This Month

Efforts to map the ancestral land of five ethnic Bunong communities that have long sought collective property titles in Mondolkiri province’s Pech Chreada district will finally begin later this month, with funding for the project coming from the U.N., officials said yesterday. “We are working in collaboration with the U.N. human rights…program to help the communal titling project in Bosra commune,” said Em Sopheak, provincial coordinator for the Community Legal Education Center, which will cooperate with land management officials and local authorities to demarcate and measure the land using GPS technology. …

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