"CSOs Call on the Royal Government of Cambodia to Take Concrete Measures to Further Implement the CEDAW Committee’s Recommendations", 12 December 2022

During the 16 Days Campaign and on International Human Rights Day 2022, … national and international civil society organisations, associations, and unions call upon the Royal Government of Cambodia to take specific steps to implement the recommendations in the CEDAW Committee’s 2019 Concluding Observations and further improve women’s human rights in Cambodia.

NGO-CEDAW and partner organisations are releasing the 2021 CEDAW Monitoring Report, which highlights achievements and challenges related to implementing the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) …

We call on the government to take the following concrete steps towards achieving the CEDAW Committee’s Concluding Observations …

1) We call for a comprehensive anti-discrimination law that guarantees a legal mechanism for enforcing women’s rights under the Constitution and CEDAW …
2) We continue to call for dedicated, long-term funding for gender mainstreaming work out of the national budget.
3) We call for significant efforts to counter the prevailing mindset that reconciliation in intimate partner violence cases is an adequate result…
4) We continue to urge the government to ratify ILO Convention No. 190 on Violence in the World of Work …
5) We continue to urge the government to provide comprehensive training to all security personnel on how to interact with the public —…
6) We urge the government to recommit resources from the national budget to ensure that women and nonbinary individuals receive proper sexual and reproductive health care, including prenatal care and campaigns to vaccinate all pregnant women and to reduce maternal deaths.