Cambodia

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Added on: 03/23/2023
03/22/2023
A mobile app for job listings for freelance LGBTQ+ workers in Southeast Asia can help tackle workplace discrimination and provide more economic opportunities for the growing number…

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Added on: 02/28/2023
02/27/2023
On Zero Discrimination Day, commemorated on March 1, UNAIDS highlights the need to remove laws that criminalise people living with HIV and key populations. (Key populations are…

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Added on: 06/28/2022
06/27/2022
As a teenager Lorn “Leak” Sreyleak looked forward to playing football every week with friends in his home town of Kampong Chhnang. But the 15-year-old couldn’t help…

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Added on: 07/15/2020
07/14/2020
A year ago, Taiwan made history by becoming the first Asian country to permit same-sex marriage in a region where any form of legal recognition for same-sex…

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Added on: 12/11/2019
12/10/2019
Children in Cambodia will receive lessons on LGBT+ issues from 2020 in a bid to wipe out bullying and discrimination in the socially conservative country, an official…

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Added on: 12/09/2019
12/08/2019
The Cambodian Human Rights Committee president spoke during a pro-LGBT event in Phnom Penh on Saturday and called on the public to end discrimination and prevent violence…

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Added on: 12/01/2019
12/01/2019
Prumsodun Ok is a choreographer and founder of Cambodia’s first gay dance company. He performs Khmer dance, an ancient dance form with roots in Buddhism, Hinduism and…

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Added on: 07/06/2019
07/01/2019
Government officials and members of the LGBT community met on Thursday to discuss the drafting or revision of laws and policies in order to facilitate their rights….

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Added on: 06/29/2019
Some 150 people, including representatives of the government and relevant ministries, the LGBTIQ community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer), local authorities, ambassadors, parents and guardians…

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Added on: 02/10/2019
02/08/2019
Angkrong, a village in Prey Veng Province in Cambodia’s southeast corner, has been home to five couples over the age of 40, two young couples who recently…

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Added on: 01/28/2019
01/26/2019
As the world marks Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday (January 27), PinkNews remembers all those in the LGBT+ community that were persecuted by the Nazis—and how the…

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Added on: 01/08/2019
01/04/2019
Have you ever felt excluded from the society and from your own family? Have you ever been discriminated by your classmates based on your gender? If you…

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Added on: 01/03/2019
01/03/2019
Cambodia is considered one of the more progressive countries when it comes to LGBT rights. The Office of the High Commissioner of United Nations Human Rights said in a statement…