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April 2022
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Press Release
Cambodia receives funding from the Elsie Initiative Fund to identify barriers to the deployment of uniformed women to United Nations peace operations

New York, 28 April 2022 – The Elsie Initiative Fund for Uniformed Women in Peace Operations (EIF) announced today that Cambodia will receive funding to undertake a study to identify barriers to the deployment of women in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF), to United Nations peace operations. Cambodia, the 25th highest troop contributing country to United Nations peacekeeping, currently deploys 766 military personnel, among which 14 per cent are women.

May 2022
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Press Release
WFP trains commercial rice mills on rice fortification

Phnom Penh, May 23-24, 2022: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), in partnership with Green Trade and the Cambodia Rice Federation, is organizing a 2-day technical training this week on rice fortification to support the development of in-country fortification capacity.

 

May 2022
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Press Release
UNODC launches public information campaign to sensitize about the harmful consequences of gender-based violence in Phnom Penh
Photo: © SreysrosKeo/UNinCambodia/2022

Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 24 May 2022 – Domestic violence or intimate partner violence, which includes physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, is the most common type of violence against women in Cambodia. One in five women between the ages of 15 and 49 have experienced physical violence. According to the 2020 Cambodia Centre for Human Rights report, this incidence rate has risen during the Covid-19 pandemic.