Stop Evictions Campaign
The Stop Evictions Campaign was established in response to the recurrent problem of government-sanctioned forced evictions in Cambodia and the continuing absence of secure land tenure for the poor.
The campaign seeks to bring an end to violations of land and housing rights in Cambodia through short-term strategies for cases of communities under the threat of forced evictions, emergency response to forced evictions when they are carried out, and long-term structural strategies to lobby for secure land tenure and participatory development processes.
BABSEA contributes to this campaign through its active role on the Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF). We are one of five members of the Core Committee of the Housing Rights Task Force, along with the Community Legal Education Center (CLEC), the Center on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), Borderlands, and Sahmakun Teang Tnaut (STT). HRTF is a coalition of more than 20 diverse local and international organizations that work together in an effort to defend housing rights of the urban poor in Cambodia. HRTF fills an important niche in terms of coordinating, networking, policy advocacy and casework in support of urban poor communities. HRTF's mission is to prevent forced evictions and housing rights violations and to promote the development and full enjoyment of housing rights for all Cambodian people.
BABSEA also seeks to assist community-led advocacy work by supporting emerging people's networks, which are organizing throughout the country to challenge social injustice and assert the rights of marginalized and vulnerable communities. These grassroots, people-owned networks have developed to take on important problems that NGOs have been unable to resolve, most notably in relation to access to land and natural resources.
Forced Evictions and the Right to Adequate Housing
Forced Evictions in Cambodia
Land and Life Song & Music Video
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