November 27, 2013 – As the international community celebrates the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender Violence from November 25 to December 10th, we, the undersigned civil society groups, call on the government to end violence against women perpetrated by its agents.

A recent study by Partners for Prevention revealed that the rate of gender violence in Cambodia is alarmingly high and on the rise. Nearly twenty percent of men interviewed in the study admitted to having used physical violence against a female partner, while over twenty percent admitted to having perpetrated sexual violence. In the first half of 2013, LICADHO received almost one hundred complaints of domestic violence and investigated over 40 cases of rape.

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(Source:LICADHO)