Cambodia (The Kingdom of): Equality and discrimination

November 2009 

• Bangkok, Thailand
  Helping women and men with disabilities fulfil their potential
  24 November 2009 - By Emanuela Pozzan, ILO Subregional Cordinator on Disability, ILO Subregional Office for East Asia. December 3 marks International Day for Disabled Persons. The theme this year focuses on the empowerment of persons with disabilities and their communities. ... (Article)

June 2009 

• Bangkok, Thailand
  By cooking and cleaning, Cambodia’s Mr Mom sweeps away poverty
  03 June 2009 - The Women's Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality (WEDGE) programme, run by the International Labour Organization (ILO), not only teaches women about business and couples about budgeting, saving and making better financial decisions, it also gets families to rethink traditional roles. (Article)

January 2009 

• The Work of the ILO in Cambodia - [pdf 1254 KB]
  13 January 2009 - Cambodia joined the ILO in 1969, the same year that the Organization was honoured with the Nobel Peace Prize. Sadly the country was embroiled in war in Southeast Asia at this time, and would soon experience the genocidal destruction of the Khmer Rouge regime. ... (Book)
• The first occupational safety and health master plan 2009 - 2013 - [pdf 155 KB]
  13 January 2009 - To promote the safety and health of Cambodian workers, the ministry through its supporting department of occupational safety and health has developed the first OSH master plan 2009-2013 with the technical support of the ILO. The plan is developed with the tripartite consultation. ... (Book)

October 2008 

• Promoting Women’s Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality, Phase III
  The Women’s Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality (WEDGE) project (2008-2011) promotes women’s entrepreneurship and support women entrepreneurs to create decent employment, achieve women’s empowerment and gender equality, and work toward poverty reduction. (Project)
• Business group formation - [pdf 1318 KB]
  13 October 2008 - The Business Group Formation (BGF) manual was developed with a view to help promote business group formation as a way to empower women and men in low-income communities by giving them more voice and improving their businesses in order to enhance their livelihoods. (Book)

May 2008 

• Bangkok
  GET Ahead for women in enterprise training package and resource kit - [pdf 3485 KB]
  01 May 2008 - Targets women in poverty who want to start or are already engaged in small-scale business. (Book)

January 2008 

• Bangkok
  Financial education trainers manual - [pdf 3473 KB]
  01 January 2008 - This illustrated, in-depth guide is designed to educate vulnerable groups, especially women, in financial literacy. The purpose of the training is to make women and men more informed and empowered decision-makers, able to set financial targets and reach them, whether in the household or in a small-scale business. ... (Book)

January 2007 

• Bangkok
  Managing small business associatons: trainers' manual - [pdf 2315 KB]
  01 January 2007 - This training package contains a bilingual Reader handbook for association managers and a bilingual Trainer’s Manual that are easy to use for developing or improving a business association. ... (Book)
• Bangkok
  Managing small business associatons: readers' manual - [pdf 2172 KB]
  01 January 2007 - This training package contains a bilingual Reader handbook for association managers and a bilingual Trainer’s Manual that are easy to use for developing or improving a business association. ... (Book)

January 2006 

• Guidelines on the formation of self help groups for families of working children - [pdf 859 KB]
  01 January 2006 - Explains the role of self-help groups. The guidelines and methodology are intended to assist in the designing and managing of self-help groups as a productive alternative for very poor people to build up some savings and to counter the indebtedness problem in Cambodia. (Book)

December 2005 

• Indigenous and tribal peoples' perceptions of poverty and poverty reduction strategies in Cambodia - [pdf 760 KB]
  01 December 2005 - Focuses on indigenous and tribal peoples in Cambodia; understanding the poverty concerns of indigenous as well as trends, caused and perceptions; participation in the PRSP. (Book)

May 2005 

• ILO launches project to promote Rights of Cambodia's Indigenous and Tribal Peoples
  04 May 2005 - The ILO is launching a project specifically designed to help the Cambodian government and indigenous and tribal people´s work together to create a framework that will help address needs and concerns. (Press release)

January 2004 

• Bangkok
  Action research on the gender dimension of skills development in Cambodia: focus on the informal sector, populations living in poverty and social exclusion - [pdf 1447 KB]
  01 January 2004 - Research reviewing labour market trends and women and men’s access to vocational education and training. Analysing major training strategies, reviewing the impact and outcomes of training, providing good practices for the promotion of gender equality. (Book)
• Bangkok
  Trainers' manual: women workers' rights and gender equality: easy steps for workers in Cambodia - [pdf 1788 KB]
  01 January 2004 - Trainers' manual on promoting women workers' rights and gender equality in the workplace in Cambodia. (Publication)