Beijing plus 20 – Voices from Cambodia (Sally Douglas) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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) 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.
Roundtable on Beijing plus 20 on Monday, February 16th, 2015 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 in Local Governance: Finding answers together 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.
Women’s Involvement in Policy Implementation: Experiences from Gender Mainstreaming Policy on Community Fisheries Management in Cambodia ‘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. By Authors: CHAP Sopanha, TEP Chansothea, MENG Kimsan and SIV Sokngy