26. We Will Not Be Moved

One day you've got a roof over your head and you're doing your best to feed, raise and protect your family with very little at all. The next day you're huddled in the pouring rain wondering what happened to the shack you called a home. That's the parlous, unpredictable reality for thousands of Cambodia's poor, forcibly evicted from their houses in the name of progress. The country's march to modernity is coming at a profound human cost as aggressive developers, corrupt officials and bulldozers roll over the top of some of Asia's most vulnerable people. But a brave group of women are taking a resolute stand.