Legal consciousness, women's right to land, and forced eviction

Name: Eng, Chandy, 1991-

LCSH: Justice, Administration of -- Burma

LCSH: Women's rights -- Burma

Abstract: This study is to understand the difference between the actual purpose of law and the legal consciousness of law by the social actor in the urban area, Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. This can help identify the challenges of the fact that women do not receive a good understanding of the laws, and they must learn this quickly once they are evicted and influenced them on claiming their rights. The research can show how the laws can be taken on better and faster and how the laws can really protect them for real and find a way for NGOs to create programs that can advocate for women's rights better with the voice of women and contribute to their advocacy work with the government, and to mainstream gender perspective into the law itself. The total of 17 in-depth interviews with 5 women rights defenders and 12 aggrieved women were conducted in Phnom Penh, where most high-profile land eviction cases and NGOs working on women and land rights are located. The places and time of interviews were based on the conveniences of respondents. This research identified the agendas of NGOs on women's issues on land rights since it was not part of the agendas of the many NGOs in Cambodia that were working with community people who were evicted from their land. In this context, the program, leadership, and communications methods of NGOs were the place for creating a better environment in preventing force evictions or the worse situation because of forced evictions with more focusing programs. Furthermore, this research also draws attention to women's different levels of understanding of the laws and rights that influenced them on claiming their rights after they started to feel differently about laws, the roles of police and local authority, and the power of their husbands after being evicted from the land which they always thought it legally belonged to them.

Mahidol University. Mahidol University Library and Knowledge Center

Address: NAKHONPATHOM

Email: liwww@mahidol.ac.th

Name: Hayes, Michael George

Role: Thesis Advisors

Name: Vachararutai Boontinand

Role: Thesis Advisors

Created: 2021

Modified: 2025-05-16

Issued: 2025-05-16

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DegreeName: Master of Arts

Level: Master's Degree

Descipline: Human Rights

Grantor: Mahidol University

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