12 November 2014 – The
Gender and Development Network (GANet), the committee to promote women
in politics (CPWP), The Cambodian Women Caucus (CWC), and The Cambodian
NGO Committee on CEDAW(NGO-CEDAW)
are working to set this statement out for the global special occasion
of the 20 years assessment of the Beijing Platform for action. To
contribute to Beijing +20 Asia Pacific and global reviews, we would like
to ensure that the women’s issue in Cambodia are heard and responded to
the Asia Pacific and Global reviews of the Beijing Platform for action.
Our
key concern is inequality gap between the rich and poor and between
women and men as a result of complex combination of social inequalities,
deprivation of rights, exclusion from opportunities, limited social
protection policies and weak enforcement of laws. We are concern about
the continued impunity for most perpetrators of gender based violence
despite legislative reforms, very slow progress on decreasing
malnutrition among women and girls, and the impact of decreasing
external funding for the HIV response, particularly for women living
with HIV and entertainment workers…