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.

EU Support to Sub-National Democratic Development (SNDD) Sub-component 2.1 - EU support to civil society  Reference: EuropeAid/136666/DD/ACT/KH The Delegation of the European Union to the Kingdom of Cambodia is seeking proposals for grants in Cambodia with financial assistance from the EU Support to Sub-National Democratic Development (SNDD).

Civil Society Organisations/Local Authorities (CSOs/LAs) inDevelopment and European Instrument for Democracy andHuman Rights-Country Based Support Scheme (EIDHR- CBSS) Reference: EuropeAid/136724/DD/ACT/KH Delegation of the European Union to the Kingdom of Cambodia is seeking proposals for human rights and good governance in Cambodia with a possible financial assistance of 7.8 Million Euro from the Civil Society Organisations-Local Authorities in Development and European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights programmes.

Indigenous communities in Cambodia are legally recognized and should thus have been protected by the Land Law and the Forestry Law, entitling them to communal land titles. A number of national and international instruments including the Cambodian Land Law of 2001, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the ILO Convention no. 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples and the World Bank Safeguard Policy recognize both collective and individual Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

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.

On the 16th of February the Heinrich Böll Foundation Cambodia hosted a workshop on the challenges in human trafficking at the Metahouse in Phnom Penh. Human trafficking is a worldwide phenomenon that is especially prevalent in Southeast Asia.

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