Heinrich Boell Stiftung happily supported the trip of the young Cambodian film maker Danech San to join the Hamburg Film Festival in Germany. She was awarded the prestigious ARTE short film award. Congrats! It’s well deserved.

I have been online harassed countless of times. It's not only because I'm outspoken, but also because I'm a woman. I believe that many women have similar experience online simply because they are women. I have received harassment messages as well as unsolicited genital pictures and pornography.

On 22nd and  24th  July 2018  hbs  Cambodia invited the all-female dance company New Cambodian Artists for performances at the National Museum. The amazing dance pieces dealt with topics such as domestic violence, growing up, sadness and happiness, and the American bombing of Cambodian territory during the Indochina war.Follow the great dance company on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewCambodianArtists/

Happy to learn from Khim Pisey about the new ideas on the Positive Parenting Program including ideas such as questioning gender roles, shedding light on alcohol abuse, providing financial training, talking about the difference between needs and wants. Glad to have such a strong and progressive partner organisation at our side.

Image credits In light of the International Women’s  Day, the Heinrich Boell Foundation Cambodia organized a talk titled “Doing Gender – Aspects of Gender and LGBTIQ Politics in Asia”.

The High-Level Segment saw representatives from regions across the world make remarks on the protection of LGBTI persons – from Argentina, to Malta, to Pakistan. This shows that SOGIESC issues are of true global importance. We invite you to take a look at these remarks by clicking on the following link: high-level_segment_report.pdf

An educational short film documentary on discrimination and dignity of transgender in Cambodia. Please click here to view the film on Vimeo

Image credits Reflection meeting with Potential Political Women Candidates (PPWCs) to warm up, coaching and facilitating the sharing of experiences and planning for running election by AMARA in Siem Reap province, fund contributed to this project by HBF Cambodia.

Image credits Financial Management and life skills for women- To promote women to develop their livelihood via training them on how to manage income, saving skill, life skills, how to make sufficient budget, health care, good custom for life, how to use money correctly. All lessons are useful for them and their family members to prevent from risks that might happened and build harmony condition in family, which are ways to reduce violent…

In honor of International Women’s Day, NGO-CEDAW sponsored a live radio broadcast of a round-table discussion on the topic of domestic violence.

New Cambodian Aartists - Dignity Project 2016 - mona simon Watch on Vimeo This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Cambodia - A joyous wedding preparation – celebrating a new chapter in a young wife’s as she steps into the unknown with anxious excitement. Stuck in abusive structures – the pain and suffering is hidden behind feminine beauty and a smile. But once the line is crossed too many times, the pain can be ignored no longer. Taking a stand – finding strength and courage, united as one, to have a voice and say ‘no more violence’.

Image credits The huge majority of Tuktuk drivers work on the streets in Phnom Penh nowadays are male. T here are only few women transporting passengers as this is commonly regarded as men’s work. Along the street near Toul Tom Pong market there is a Tuktuk lady who stands by most of the time.

The repression of NGOs and other civil society groups increases worldwide, which leads to a decline of democratic freedom. This issue should be added to the agenda of national parliaments and multilateral organizations.

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The education of ending domestic violence and share the root of violence and how get information to help victim and how to do when domestic violence happened.

For five years now, Women’s Resource Center has actively empowered women by giving them resources and information to assist with their daily lives.

Thida Khus is the Executive Director of SILAKA, a Cambodian NGO that has been working since 1997 to increase the participation of women in Cambodia. Thida will be speaking at the Heinrich Böll Foundation about the situation of women in Southeast Asia.

Image credits On 16-17 November, 2015: Forum Workshop on The Sustainable Development Goals Post 2015-2030, Organized Strey Khmer Organization at Mekong Dialogue Institute (MDI).

Human trafficking is one of the greatest crimes of the 21st century. It is a persistent violation of the rights and lives of children, men and women. We live in a globalized world that facilitates the movement of goods, information and people across borders.

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Ung Yok Khoan) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Ung Yok Khoan – Director of Amara Ms. Ung Yok Khoan is founder and director of Amara, Cambodian Women's Network for Development, which was originally thought as a women’s network to prepare a report for the Fourth World Conference on Women presented by the UN in Beijing, September 1995. 

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Hoy Sochivanny) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Hoy Sochivanny – President of Positive Change for Cambodia (PCC) Ms. Hoy Sochivanny, president of Positive Change for Cambodia, participated in the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in September 1995 together with 85 other Cambodian women from civil society and 35 members of the Cambodian government.

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Chak Sopheap) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Chak Sopheap – Executive Director of CCHR Chak Sopheap is the executive director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), one of the leading human rights organizations working for the promotion and protection of political and civil rights.

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Reaksmey Arun) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Reaksmey Arun – Executive Director at Strey Khmer Reaksmey works with women to raise awareness of women’s legal and human rights, engage women in leadership and political participation, and provide access to different forms of justice for victims of state based violence against women inflicted as part of illegal land grabbing and forced evictions.

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Pisey Khim) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Pisey Khim – Managing Director of WRC As Managing Director of Women's Resource Center (WRC) in Siem Reap, Pisey identifies the main concern for women and girls to be a lack of education and information about their rights and equality between women and men.

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Pech Polet) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Pech Polet – Program Coordinator at Strey Khmer Pech Polet is a program coordinator at Strey Khmer, which works specifically to advocate women's equality and engagement in the reconstruction of Cambodia. 

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Barbara Lochbihler) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Barbara Lochbihler – Member of the Greens/European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament, Vice-Chair of the Human Rights Subcommittee, Organizer of the Women’s Peace Train

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Bimala Jnawali) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Bimala Jnawali – President of AATWIN, Chairperson of CWISH Ms. Bimala Jnawali has been working for policy change on a local, national and international level for years. She is the president of the Alliance Against Trafficking in Women and Children in Nepal (AATWIN), a pioneer network that campaigns to end human trafficking problems.

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Benu Maya Gurung) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Benu Maya Gurung – Program Coordinator at AATWIN Ms. Benu Maya Gurung is program coordinator at the Alliance Against Trafficking in Women and Children in Nepal (AATWIN), a pioneer network that campaigns to end human trafficking problems.

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Kasumi Nakagawa) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Kasumi Nakagawa – Faculty Member at the Pannasastra University Ms. Kasumi Nakagawa has been a faculty member at the Pannasastra University of Cambodia since 2002, in charge of gender studies at the foundation course and is a key figure in the development of the Cambodian National Action Plan to prevent Violence against Women (NAPVAW).

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Sally Douglas) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Sally Douglas – Advisor at Women's Resource Center Sally is the advisor at Women's Resource Center (WRC) and has played an instrumental role in the development of WRC's programs, which best accommodate the needs of the local community.

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Pisey Ly) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Pisey Ly – Women's Network for Unity (WNU), Social Action for Change (SAC) Pisey has been involved in women's rights networks for many years thus working on the most urgent social problems Cambodian women face today.

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Alexandra Amling) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Alexandra Amling – EVAW Program Officer at The Asia Foundation Alex has been supporting The Asian Foundation in research on violence against women (VAW) since 2014. Grounded in her passion for conflict analysis and peacebuilding, Alex has been researching and writing on women in armed conflict and post-war settings.

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Erin Bourgois) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Erin Bourgois – Program Advisor at The Asia Foundation Cambodia Committed to the protection and advancement of women's rights, Erin started working on violence against women prevention programs internationally in 2007 - specifically in the areas of forced migration and acid violence. 

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Kate Sheill) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Kate Sheill – International Advocacy Officer at GAATW Kate works for the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), an international network of independent organizations formed in 1994 by a group of women’s rights activists from Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Malin Lok) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Malin Lok – Program Officer at The Asia Foundation Cambodia Malin Lok is a program officer at The Asia Foundation Cambodia (TAF). She is passionate and dedicated about contributing to positive change in the Cambodian society.

Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Rachana Bunn) - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Rachana Bunn – VXW Awardee, Natural Resource and Land Management Program Officer with ActionAid Cambodia Rachana is a human rights lawyer and land rights activist. Rachana strongly believes in the freedom of expression and the power of social media to bring positive change in the lives of the most vulnerable people in Cambodia.

Image credits Roundtable on Beijing plus 20 on Monday, February 16th, 2015 - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cambodia Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. On the 16th of February the Heinrich Böll Foundation Cambodia hosted a roundtable workshop on Beijing +20 at the Metahouse in Phnom Penh. 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, which took place in September 1995. 17,000 participants and 30,000 activists attending a parallel forum streamed into Beijing to further the empowerment of women and promote gender equality. After two weeks of intense debate, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action had been drafted, a milestone in the promotion of women’s rights. Until this day, the Declaration is one of the most quoted human rights documents concerning women.

Women’s Resource Center (WRC) Operating since 2010, the Women’s Resource Center (WRC) is a drop-in center for women, which offers counselling support, informal-educational workshops on different topics like woman’s health, parenting, legal aid and the finance course “riel change”. The organization consists of 5 people of which 4 are Khmer.

Women´s political role in Cambodia is hampered by gender based discrimination, but woman have much to say about local political issues. This video explores the political problems faced by women in Cambodia, indigenous or Khmer, their visions about change and strategies that can allow them to gain a better share in governance.

With the adoption of a new Land Law in 2001, the Royal Government of Cambodia initiated a comprehensive land reform process. By giving voice to these women, The Heinrich Böll Foundation hopes to contribute to improvements in the recognition and registration of women´s land rights in Cambodia. 

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Although the law on against domestic violence was put into action in 2005, according to women at the grassroot level, it is still a common issue in many marriages.

Equality for all human beings is a core principal and Leitmotif of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1949 and manifested in many national constitutions.

The cambodian artist Buth Chan Anochea in a Radio Feature about her paintings on the exhibition “Hey sister, where are you going?” where ten female artists present their masterpieces, which express women in society.

The radio program "Women's Voices, Women's Choices" will be broadcasted in Khmer Language every two weeks on Sunday from 11am to 12am on FM 93.5. It addresses various topics such as education, living standard, small business, women’s rights, environment, security and others from the viewpoint of women in Cambodia. Please click the play button on the audio taskbar for listening to the broadcast from November 7, 2010.

Chan Dina is a young Cambodian female artist who will express her variouse artworks at one shoppingmall where the other 10 Cambodian female artists' artwoks will be shown to the public, too.

"Hey Sister, Where are you going?!" is an art exhibition sponsered and organized by Heinrich Böll Foundation in Cambodia. Starting on the 22nd October, there will be displayed works from 11 Cambodian female artists in the Sovanna Mall in Phnom Penh.

Mrs. Sun Phoeung aged 38 works as commune councilor in Chey commune in Kampong Thom province. She is in charge of women’s affairs and children. Becoming a member of the Women Political Activist Network has changed her life. “Without having knowledge of women’s rights I might have committed suicide” confesses Phoeung, looking back at a very difficult time in her life.

‘Srey bangvil chankran min chum’, according to this old Khmer expression women are seen as being too weak to involve in work beyond the household. However, as this case study conducted by the LEARNING INSTITUTE shows women contribute significantly to the total inland fish production in Cambodia. They not only involve in small-scale fishing but take on other income-generating activities such as gathering of aquatic plants and animals, fish culture, fish processing, fish marketing, fish trading, and making of fishing gear.

Parliamentarians, representatives of the Ministries of Interior and Women’s Affairs, researchers and staff of local and international organizations and indigenous women from four provinces were among the participants, when the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the German Technical Cooperation supported the Launch of the Action Research on “Promoting Political Participation of Indigenous Women in Cambodia” organized by the Committee to Promote Women in Politics.