Borie Kila case
This is the exchange between HIC members Nick Volk (Rooftops Canada) and Somsook Boonyabanch (Asian Coalition for Housing Rights) in regards to the Borie Kila case.
This is the exchange between HIC members Nick Volk (Rooftops Canada) and Somsook Boonyabanch (Asian Coalition for Housing Rights) in regards to the Borie Kila case.
The Indigenous Jarrai community have inhabited the land for over 2000 years. Here, the details of the case and the support letters and contact addresses to help this community
The Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) has received disturbing news from Cambodian organization, The Community Legal Education Center, of mass evictions occurring in the Bassac area (Group 78) of Phnom Penh. Your URGENT action is requested.
Large-scale land grabbing in Cambodia, inadequate legal protection for tenants, poor water and sanitation, and bias against women and indigenous people are among the major issues cited by a United Nations human rights expert on housing after a visit to the South-East Asian country.
Demolition and eviction has several decades of history in China. In the past, ordinary people longed for demolition and eviction [because they were moved to better homes], but now ordinary people fear demolition and eviction, they hate [it], and even use death and suicide to oppose [it].. This hatred, this opposition to demolition andeviction has really only appeared in the last few years. – Tenants’ rights advocate Xu Yonghai,