Localised AHRD Campaign Material available in Khmer

On 21 October 2011, the Southeast Asia Women’s Caucus on ASEAN made a submission on the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD with the goal of advancing women’s human rights in the first

Rights Human Declaration in ASEAN and the Asia Pacific region.

In the process of gaining support for this submission, the Women’s Caucus (WC) embarked on a     serious of national and regional campaigns which would essentially promote the need to integrate the perspective of women’s human rights into the AHRD draft. The activities required to implement the campaign included translations of the submissions into the national language, publication of the case studies showcasing the stories of ASEAN women, workshops on AHRD, cost effective budget sensitive campaign materials, meetings with ASEAN officials and/or other international missions, videos production, road tours, media briefings, and key messages diffusion via video and radio plugs.

Subsequently, on March 1 2012, the Cambodian Women Caucus (CWC) through SILAKA Organization and Positive Change for Cambodia were contracted by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD) to implement activities in correlation with the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration (AHRD) Campaigning Project.

The action-oriented goal were set to provide a real, measurable ways to support a specific objective for the project implementation activities which include: to spread awareness on the Women’s Caucus’s submission on the AHRD and to translate and produce campaign material that will reach out to the masses with an ultimate aim of increasing visibility and citizen’s overall knowledge base on ASEAN and AHRD.

Outputs for the project included the translation of the submission of WC Submission on AHRD in Khmer and produce cost effective budget sensitive campaign material that will be utilized during the Women’s Caucus Campaign within the local context.

Campaign Material available: 
AHRD Poster in Khmer (A2), PDF file here