Ethnic Bunong Groups Granted New Land Titles

3 October 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Land / Social development
Bunong ethnic minority / communal land titles / communal titling / ethnic minorities / human rights groups / Land Law / Land rights / Land titles / land titling / Mondolkiri Province

The government has completed the communal land-titling process for three ethnic Bunong communities in Mondolkiri province living on 1,000 hectares of land in Keo Seima district, villagers and a rights group said yesterday. The three new titles-which will bring to six the total number of communal titles granted since the country's Land Law was passed in 2001-will be given to about 100 families living in Sre Preah and Sre Khtum communes and are expected to be delivered by the end of the year. ... While efforts have begun to issue titles for Cambodia's ethnic groups, human rights groups have long criticized the slow implementation of communal titling. ...