Hun Xen (Photo: Reuters)PM praises progress of women in politics
Monday, 12 July 2010
Cheang Sokha
The Phnom Penh Post
PRIME Minister Hun Sen praised what he described as the significant gains made by female politicians in a statement marking World Population Day, which was observed yesterday.
“The expression of women has steadily increased through politics,” Hun Sen said in Friday’s statement.
The premier encouraged all women to get involved in politics and social issues, and noted that he had previously called for the inclusion of women at all levels of government.
“I made the first-ever decision to order all cities and provinces to appoint a woman as deputy governor for cities, provinces, districts, villages and all state ministries and institutions,” Hun Sen said.
Lim Mony, head of the women’s section at the rights group Adhoc, acknowledged that the number of women in politics appeared to have risen in recent years. But she said many lack real power. “If women are promoted to the positions but they don’t have the right to make decisions, there is still gender inequality,” she said.
“The expression of women has steadily increased through politics,” Hun Sen said in Friday’s statement.
The premier encouraged all women to get involved in politics and social issues, and noted that he had previously called for the inclusion of women at all levels of government.
“I made the first-ever decision to order all cities and provinces to appoint a woman as deputy governor for cities, provinces, districts, villages and all state ministries and institutions,” Hun Sen said.
Lim Mony, head of the women’s section at the rights group Adhoc, acknowledged that the number of women in politics appeared to have risen in recent years. But she said many lack real power. “If women are promoted to the positions but they don’t have the right to make decisions, there is still gender inequality,” she said.
17 comments:
When Hun Sen talks about women he wants to say Rany, Sivorn, Palika..
now the case with ms mu sochua is personal. one has to look into the very case itself. let's don't jump to a blind conclusion, here! the case with ms. mu sochua is more with defamation like libel, slandering and contempt of court, etc. it probably has nothing to do with women's rights, she's a woman, or whatever you want to call it, really! treat it as a case by case basis, ok! even ms. mu sochua, a parliament member must obey law of the land too, you know! that's all! don't try to mix a court case with national agenda, etc...! wake up people!
it's like when you're a member of congress, you have to respect law, too, you know! can't play too many roles like ms. mu sochua who is also a member of parliament and activist at the same time; got to separate the two or she could get herself in trouble with the law, you know! pick one or the other, can't have both, really! i'm sure we all heard of conflict of interest, not good for a law maker in cambodia or anywhere for that matter!
Yeeeeee! ah nish herm, now!!!!!!!!!!
Ah Herm mon gnuaub!!!!!
11:56 and 12:00 AM, you're monkey, you know nothing about law, in Cambodia, law means nothing, CPP members consider Hun Sen like their god, he's more important than their mother or their father, Hun Sen parole is law and Hun Sen law diplomas are just a piece of shit. Cambodian judges are a band of monkeys, they use Hun Sen will to judge.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
"As of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered 10 Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonate bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Vietnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
Who killed 1.7 million innocent Khmer peoples?
a) ah juoy marai Pol Pot
b) ah juoy marai Nuon Chea
c) ah juoy marai Ta Mok
d) ah juoy marai Khieu Samphan
e) ah juoy marai Son Sen
f) ah juoy marai Kaing Kek Iev
g) ah juoy marai Ieng Sary
h) me joa ka-a juoy Ieng Thearith
i) ah juoy marai Hun Sen
j) ah juoy marai Chea Sim
k) ah juoy marai Heng Samrin
l) ah juoy marai Hor Namhong
m) ah juoy marai Keat Chhon
n) ah juoy marai Ouk Bunchhoeun
o) ah juoy marai Sim Ka
p) all of above
Source:
DC-CAM
Who killed Chea Vichea?
a) ah juoy marai Hun Sen
b) ah juoy marai Hok Lundy
c) ah juoy marai Huy Piseth
d) ah juoy marai Phan Sary
e) ah juoy marai Oum Chamnane
f) ah juoy marai hit man #3
g) ah juoy marai hit man #4
h) ah juoy marai Hun Sen's personal bodyguard unit (Brigade 70)
i) ah juoy marai Hun Sen's Death Squad
j) ah juoy marai Bon Na
k) ah juoy marai Keov Vichet
l) all of above
ការពិតគឺជាកំហុសរបស់អ្នកនាងមូរ សុខហួរ
ទេដែលយល់ស្មានខុសខ្លួនឯង ដោយយក
ខ្លួនទៅដាក់ដើម្បីយកប្រជាប្រីយ៍ តែទេវតា
មិនជួយ ក៍ត្រូវជាប់ទោសរហូតអាចចូលគុក
ព្រៃស ទៀតក៍ថាបាន។
3:55 AM, you're a dump, you think like an animal, you're not educated at all, exactely like your god, Hun Sen, you don't know what is right and what is wrong.
Bad luck you're not killed by Khmer rouge, too stupid to live..
11:56 PM,
You're talking nonsense. That probably you have a lobster brain. In the first place, Hun Sen provoked the issue first. Ms. Mu Sochau was doing her campaign at the province. She criticized the Hun Sen government and that made Hun Sen upset and he then label her as Cheung Khlang. Didn’t Ms. Mu Sochau just do what Hun Sen appealed on his statement today? He wanted more women dare to talk out, dare to involve in the leadership and politic. I think you, the lobster brain and your man Hun Sen are the same. You guys just don’t know what you’re talking about. Worse than that, you guys have a short memory and didn’t know what you just talked about.
3:55 AM,
You can at least read some English here, otherwise you would not comment on this topic. However, your judgment is very low, lower than an ordinary Khmer who can’t read and write Khmer, not to mention English. Everyone knew that, when Boros Khlang Hun Sen called Srey Cheung Khlang, everyone knew that who he referred to.
ខ្ញុំពាក់វែនតាខ្មៅអ៊ីចឹងមើលឃើញភ្នែកខ្វាក់ម្ខាងរបស់ខ្ញុំទេ?
When did Mu Sochua come to represent all the women in Cambodia? Think again, idiots. Try as she might, she ain't nothing but another politician trying to make a name for herself by causing controversy but without concrete work, her 15 minutes will be up sooner or later.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO CALL A FEW MILLIONS KHMER TO RISE UP AND REMOVE HUN SEN FROM POWER. WAKE UP CAMBODIAN PEOPLE. IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A BETTER FUTURE, FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, YOU MUST CALL ALL YOUR BROTHER, SISTER, COUSIN, ETC.. TO STAND UP. JUST ONE PERSON LIKE MRS. MU SOCHUA ALONE CAN'T DO IT.
ranny you are a woman with power, so please try to help all women to have a say ok. you are better than moninearth, so please do the right thing ok?. Wiser
This is an excellent example of irony - on the one hand patting himself on the back for promoting women in politics and on the other sending a message to all women in Cambodia that if they get into politics and follow their consciences, they could end up in prison or fined large amounts of money.
The law is the law they say, but they also say the law is an arse - particularly if those laws are used to remove one of the fundamental citizen's democratic rights: freedom of expression. A right the government is mandated to protect as part of the constitution of Cambodia. Thereby, the government has broken numerous laws and agreements while pursuing this case. It is understandable that someone would refuse to acknowledge the validity of the court's decision.
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