GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN CAMBODIA

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The Cambodian Millennium Development Goals have highlighted the government commitment in working towards time-bound and measurable achievement in the areas of poverty reduction,health,education.The gender equality remains a major issue in most of areas of socio economic life despite government commitment to female empowerment.Today women face discrimination in all aspects of life.Girls still face discrimination at levals of the education system.
The current situation in combodia is lower secondary school only 63 girls for every 100 boys are enrolled in school.Although women are a primary focus of CMDG health goals,poor quality,health care,lack of access to health care services, reproductive healty problem,that threat of HIV/AIDS and infant mortality rates all contribute to the poor health status of women.The half of all HIV infections involve tranmission from husband to wires and one third from mother to child and the number of women currently living with HIV continues to increase.The government has also adopted legislation that ensures women right are promoted and protected.As a signatory to CEDAW, the combodia government has committed to enabling "The full and equal enjoyment of all human right and fundamental freedoms by women and girls is a priority".Despite these commitments,however women' right are regularly violated.In combodia has 326 rape cases were reported to ADITO and 3.9%rape cases on girls aged less than 5 years old.The 73%of offenders have been known by victims (2.86 is father,7% is step father,2%is uncle).Government has had a great effort to disseminate the equal right laws in accessing to the same benefits in order to gradually eliminate discrimination based on sex.