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World Bank’s Boeng Kak Failure Cited in UN Report

11 March 2013
The Cambodia Daily
Aid and development / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Multilateral development assistance / Social development / World Bank
Boeng Kak evictees / Boeng Kak neighborhood / Boeung Kak / Boeung Kak Lake / Bou Saroeun / compensation / forced eviction / Geneva / housing rights / Human Rights / illegal eviction / Land issues / Land rights / Land titles / land-titling program / land-titling project / loan freeze / loans / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh City Hall / Raquel Rolnik / U.N Human Rights Council in Geneva / U.N. Human Rights Council / U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Raquel Rolnik / UN / United Nations / World Bank / World Bank loan freeze

The U.N.’s expert on housing rights has cited the World Bank’s failure to help thousands of families evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood as a prime example of why the bank needs to make human rights a focus of its land sector programs worldwide. At ...

http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-banks-boeng-kak-failure-cited-in-un-report-14120/

UN Housing Envoy Wants Eviction Activists Freed

8 September 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Civil society / Concessions / Gender / Government / Human rights / International relations / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Women in development
anti-eviction activists / Boeng Kak / Boeng Kak residents / Borei Keil / Borei Keila evictees / ELCs / evictions / forced evictions / housing rights / Human Rights / land / land disputes / Raquel Rolnik / relocations / Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing / Toem Sakmony / United Nations / Yorm Bopha

The U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, has waded in to the furor surrounding the imprisonment this week of two anti-eviction activists from Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities, posing with a poster calling for the release of the two women. Yorm Bopha, 32, ...

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