Lizzy Tomei is a master’s student at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She is currently interning with our Forced Evictions campaign. Read her previous post about the film “Dear Mandela” on this blog here.
A major part of what brought me to WITNESS was my background as a newspaper reporter in Cambodia covering the issue of forced evictions. In the time I lived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital—2005 to early 2008—land disputes were becoming a growing source of tension and unrest. Urban evictions in Boeung Kak, Borei Keila, Sambok Chap, Group 78 and Dey Krahom were all familiar to me, as were cases of rural land grabbing in the countryside. When I learned about the Forced Evictions campaign at WITNESS this year, I was encouraged to discover that the organization thoroughly understands the severity and global nature of these issues, in Cambodia and elsewhere. Read the rest of the article here.
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