Gov’t, UNDP Disclose Development Report

Saturday, October 06, 2007

October 4, 2007: The government and the UN Development Program disclosed the country’s first human development report since 2001 containing analysis of recent years’ health and education data.  According to the report, during a five-year period ending in 2004, the share of land owned by Cambodia protest 40 percent dropped from  8.4 to 5.4 percent while the richest’ share 20 percent grew from 59 to 70 percent.

Thun Saray, president of local rights group Adhoc, said that Cambodia’s land crisis was the most severe human rights problem, including other problems such as corruption and environmental destruction.