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CEDAW Committee Considers Cambodia’s Report

While praising Cambodia for enacting measures to protect women from violence and exploitation, and for developing policies to widen their access to jobs, expert members of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women noted the need to broaden the reach of those measures to the larger population, including rural women. The Committee’s 23 experts, acting in their personal capacities, monitor compliance with the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. As the Committee considered Cambodia’s combined initial, second and third periodic report on its compliance with the Convention, they focused particularly on women’s lack of knowledge regarding their rights, as well as their lack of access to legal assistance. In addition, negative stereotypes about women were reinforced by a customary code of conduct for women, taught to all Cambodian schoolchildren, with provisions such as "never turn your back to your husband when he sleeps" and "never respond to his excessive anger".

Click here to read the CEDAW Cambodia Report.