Apart from the issues regarding the lack of economic opportunities, many women in Cambodia face so many challenges in society to fully enjoy their rights and well being because of social norms. Nevertheless in this post I am going to discuss issues concerning women.
One of which is domestic violence's committed by their husbands or partners. When the issues happen, society or communities tend to not take this issue seriously; yet communities or even authorities who are supposed to enforce law could also be seen to compromise the issue to couples trying to mediate couples.
An article published by VOD , on “Footage Shows Tycoon’s Domestic Violence Against Entrepreneur Ex-Wife” a Cambodian tycoon badly hitting his wife violently after the wife showed the video on social media. Nevertheless the discussion or comments on social media do not discuss this tycoon should be arrested yet; blaming the victim because she chose to marry a rich man. In addition violence's against women believed to be under-reported as women choose to stay silent as they believe that they do not want to separate as it could affect to their reputation and their children future. The study showed that women experience violence's facing many problems related to their physical, mental and sexual consequences.
Apart from issue related to violence against women, women cannot discuss what is right for themselves. For instance, women are believed that they should not wear revealing clothes because it affects Cambodian culture and Cambodian women or especially if you are a celebrity you will be called for attitude discipline for just wearing too sexy clothes according to the Phnom Penh Post published in June 2016.
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An article published at Voice of America news “a female police officer in Stung Treng province posting a photo of her breastfeeding at her work on social media was reprimanded a week later ; the photo is covered up with emo. She was instructed by her boss not to do it as it affects Cambodian women's values and institution and made her sign a written apology. In this, women cannot even choose what is best for themselves.
By meta kong
What an interesting post Meta! I took a sociology class in undergrad called Intimate Violence and while we heavily discussed relationship and domestic violence in the United States we never really got to look further at this violence on a global scale. So, I was very interested in reading your post about domestic violence in Cambodia. I just read an article by the World Health Organization that stated that roughly 1 in 3 or 30% of women worldwide have been subjected to physical and/or sexual partner violence within their lifetime. 27% of this violence happens to women between the ages of 15 and 49, with only 3% happening outside of that. The region of the world that faces the greatest intimate partner violence is South-East Asia with 33% of survivors reporting violence within their relationship. What is even more interesting is that globally as much as 38% of all murders are committed by one's intimate partner.
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This post is so accurate Meta, especially where you mentioned mothers are silent on the abuse they go through in marriages. This is so because firstly, they tend to consider the wellbeing and living condition of their children if they leave the marriage and secondly because in most cases there is nothing done about this abuse should the cases be reported hence giving the man more dominion over the woman. It is disheartening to know many mothers are stuck in abusive marriages because of their children and what becomes of them in their absence. From cases I have encountered, many men tend to vent their anger on the children left behind in the marriage thereby making them now become victims of violence and abuse. Sadly enough the law enforcement bodies do not do much in solving domestic violence adequately hence leaving the woman to her fate.
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