In Cambodia, there remain strong undercurrents against the small Vietnamese minority, who still face petty harassment from officials. While there were no organized moves to oust them, the Cambodian community would prefer them to be repatriated to Vietnam. Indigenous peoples face loss of their traditional lands through the granting of land concessions to private companies. Drafting of a sub-decree of the Land Law to allow for collective titling of indigenous land is underway. However, the process is very slow and there is mounting concern that there will be little indigenous land left to title by the time the decree has been drafted and the titling process begins. The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Human Rights in Cambodia has requested that the government stop granting land concessions until the regulations on collective titling are established. Cambodia continued to fail to provide effective protection to Montagnard asylum seekers and some were reportedly returned to Vietnam where they faced ill-treatment.

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