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Victims saved from human, sex trafficking rises 148%
In the first six months of this year, authorities cracked down on 78 cases of human and sex trafficking and rescued 263 victims. This is an increase of 25 and 148 per cent respectively compared to the same period last year, the National Committee for ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/victims-saved-human-sex-trafficking-rises-148
Civil groups call for clear policies on women’s rights
Some 400 youth and women from 12 civil society organisations gathered at a hotel in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Sunday to celebrate women’s rights, weeks after they were prevented by security forces from marching to mark International Women’s Day. At Sunday’s gathering, the group ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/civil-groups-call-clear-policies-womens-rights
CNRP lauds female candidates
The Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday celebrated its top female candidates before the upcoming communal elections at an event under the slogan “Thousands of Lights for Women”, though women’s rights activists criticised the strategy as lacking teeth in fostering greater representation for women. ...
Leonie Kijewski and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cnrp-lauds-female-candidates
Parties pledge more power for women
For the ruling CPP, the promise was to appoint a woman as governor for one of the country’s 25 provinces. For the opposition CNRP, its boast was having 60 female commune chief candidates—up from fewer than 10—to run in Cambodia’s 1,646 communes for this year’s ...
Kuch Naren and Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/parties-pledge-more-power-for-women-126307/
Gender course to be piloted at Royal University
Gender studies will be incorporated into the curriculum at Cambodia’s largest university in an effort to shape the country’s top students’ views on the role of women in society, educators and experts said on Wednesday at a workshop on the course. A pilot program will begin ...
Holly Robertson and Sun Heng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/gender-course-to-be-piloted-at-royal-university-63740/
New Research Presented to Help Locals Understand Violence
New research on the cultural causes of and solutions to violence against women was presented in Phnom Penh on Friday in a bid to help those interested in ending violence understand what fuels it, specifically in a Cambodian context. The research is 25 years in the ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-research-presented-to-help-locals-understand-violence-61415/
Cambodia NGO concerns over funding, after Somaly case
Anti-trafficking groups in Cambodia are urging donors to maintain support for their cause, following claims a well-known activist fabricated her life story, to raise funds. Somaly Mam resigned from the charity she co-founded, after a news investigation cast doubt on her story, including being sold into ...
ABC Radio Australia News Staff
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/program/asia-pacific/cambodia-ngo-concerns-over-funding-after-somaly-case/1320972
Gender gains lacking: report
Cambodian women are bumping up against a steadfast glass ceiling, according to an annual report by the Cambodian National Council for Women. The report, released yesterday, tracks what the government has done to execute the prime minister’s 16 recommendations regarding women’s access to and engagement in ...
Chhay Channyda and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gender-gains-lacking-report
Report Finds Poor Implementation of Domestic Violence Law
Preliminary research in two provinces has found that a lack of implementation of the domestic violence law means that women continue to suffer abuse and more needs to be done to ensure that attitudes change and perpetrators are held accountable. Katherine Brickell, senior lecturer in Human ...
Lauren Crothers
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/report-finds-poor-implementation-of-domestic-violence-law-50906/
ILO: women still lag behind in education
Despite making some gains, Cambodian women continue to fall well short of their male counterparts when it comes to education and position in the labour market, a study released yesterday by the International Labor Organization reports. Men account for just five per cent more of Cambodia’s ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ilo-women-still-lag-behind-education