A young Khmer girl cares for her naked baby sibling amongst debris and rubbish in the street ...

A young Khmer girl cares for her naked baby sibling amongst debris and rubbish in the street behind apartment blocks off Lenin Boulevard in central Phnom Penh. Thousands of landless families squat in poverty on whatever land or buildings they find available. Most have returned under the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC)'s Repatriation scheme after years of exile in the Thai border camps to discover their former homes were already 'owned' and occupied. Many other families have been displaced by fighting, landmines and rural poverty and are drawn to the city where the prospect of jobs appears brighter, further compounding an already spiralling housing crisis, but where many fall victim to high rates of disease, violence and social dysfunction.