I used to work at a bar in the UK, serving drinks until 1 or 2am. I didn’t really enjoy the dark drive home. I’d lock the car doors and crank up whatever ‘power ballad’ was on the radio to make me...
It is now well recognized that women and girls around the world face violence, sexual harassment and abuse in many of the spaces that they inhabit – their homes, workplaces, educational institutes,...
Bopha, from the Prey Veng province of Cambodia, lives in Phnom Penh in a rented room which is 2.3 metres by 3 metres. She has an eight year old son, who lives in the village with his grand...
Having children for women working in cities is become more difficult. Poor women, especially, have to make the hard decision to go to work or stay at home to look after children.Since the cost of...
As part of ActionAid’s Safe Cities Initiative, I’ve been visiting some of the areas on the outskirts of the capital, Phnom Penh, where these women live.Approximately 500,000 workers are employed in...
Where there is any discussion, workshop or campaign about garment workers, the topic will mainly focus on demanding decent conditions and better salaries for the workers. But when we ask about what...
ActionAid Cambodia implemented supporting the monitoring of aid effectiveness from a gender perspective, in collaboration with UN Women and with funding support from the Spanish ministry of foreign...
Having trained as a health healer after finding that a simple herbal remedy was able to cure her own serious disease, Pho now passes on her knowledge of nutrition and basic health care to her village...
After suffering a serious disease herself, Pho attended a women’s health healer training programme and is now able to provide health support to her local community and spread her knowledge.
