CAM: Resolution on Temporary Settlements on Land Which has been Illegally Occupied in the Capital, Municipal and Urban Areas

Event: Country Safeguard Systems: Southeast Asia

CAM: Resolution on Temporary Settlements on Land Which has been Illegally Occupied in the Capital, Municipal and Urban Areas

31 May 2010

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The policy of the Royal Government in the Interim Paper on Strategy of Land Policy Framework on September 2002 indicates temporary land occupation rights with certain timeframe for those who settled illegally and squatter settlements which have existed continuously in the capital city, provincial towns and other urban areas. According to empirical studies, temporary settlements (squatter settlements) which have been illegally built in the capital city, municipal and urban areas developed from several factors such as population growth, repatriation of refugee's family and families fleeing battlegrounds prior 1998 when the country had not fully achieved peace, land loss caused by. natural _disasters and. other.factors, especially rural to urban migration for finding jobs in the later which has experienced rapid industrial, service and urbanisation growths.

Geographical Focus:

Cambodia

Type of Content:

Learning Event

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