From: AFP
March 16, 2011
MALE foreigners over the age of 50 have been outlawed from marrying Cambodian women in the country under new rules designed to crack down on sham marriages and human trafficking, the government said today.
Foreigners who earn less than $2,580 per month are also barred from wedding local women, foreign ministry spokesman Koy Kuong (pictured) told AFP, but the restrictions do not apply to weddings taking place overseas.
Marriages between old men and young women are "inappropriate", Koy Kuong said, and foreign men who wish to marry nationals must earn a high salary to ensure that "Cambodian women can live a decent life".
"We are preventing fake marriages and human trafficking," he said, adding that the government was aware of cases, documented by rights groups, where Cambodian women were sent into prostitution or "used as slaves" in their husband's home country.
The Cambodian foreign ministry has sent a diplomatic note to all the embassies and consulates in the country informing them of the new regulations, which came into effect on March 1.
Kek Galabru, president of local human rights group Licadho, praised the government's intention to protect Cambodian brides.
But she said the new guidelines "go against Cambodian marriage law and international law" - specifically the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
"This is discrimination against women because they will not be allowed to marry men who are over 50 ... while Cambodian men can marry any foreign woman they choose," she said.
Cambodia imposed a temporary ban on foreign marriages in 2008 to prevent human trafficking, amid concern over a sharp rise in the number of brokered unions involving South Korean men and poor Cambodian women.
That ban followed an International Organisation for Migration report that said many Cambodian brides suffered abuse after moving to South Korea in marriages hastily arranged by brokers who made large profits.
The restriction was lifted about eight months later after new laws were introduced to prevent women becoming mail-order brides.
4 comments:
Too many fake marriaged nowaday, they lied and fake about their marriaged...inorder to make $20-$30k for bringing people to oversea...
voilà une loi , qui fait rire le Monde entier !
Un étranger doit avoir -50 ans et 2580 $/mois de salaire pour pouvoir se marier à une cambodgienne !
Ca veut dire que le mot "Mariage" dans ce pays n'a aucune valeur juridique .Le mari , fait ce qu'il veut avec son épouse , il peut rejeter comme un objet !
Allons ! les filles cambodgiennes , arrêtez de se laisser faire ! vous avez autant de droit que les hommes ,
révoltez -vous ! portez plainte si vous avez subi des méchancetés pareils . Défendez vos droits ! On ne se marie pas pour ramener sa femme pour la jeter dans un bordel !
C'est pas le mot " mariage" qu'il faut employer ici , c'est l'achat d'une personne qu'il faut utiliser .
Nous avons tous une mère ! sans la femme on est pas au Monde ! s'il y a des gens qui font mal aux femmes comme décrit dans cette loi , ces personnes sont nées des objets . Ces escrocs n'ont pas de soeurs , de mères ,...
Les femmes cambodgiennes ne doivent pas accepter le mariage , si elles ne sont pas consentantes !
this congres's man is so stupid because he can't make laws to stop women trafficking and make this laws to stop men over 50 years old to married with younger women in Cambodia?. didn't he read discrimenation laws agaist women and ages? you are so stupid man, even a man over 50 year olds has income more than $4,500.00 per month do you as a congress man can garranty the future of the women or her live ? please keep your nose out from this man. please keep busy with the border on the southside of our country? please spend more time to do better good for the people. this is a wasting time man.
if you want to make some laws please!!! reform the land crabbing laws and citizen's rights abuse? are better!!!o.k. stupid
This is a bad law. There are other ways to stop women trafficking, not this way. This law can't stop trafficking of women because young men, who can be criminals, can just marry them in fake marriages and still can traffick them, not just old men. About the income limit is ridiclous. It would be better for Cambodian women to go overseas like USA, Canada, France and UK with a poor husband than live under poverty line in Cambodia because when they got to those countries they can find a job and earn a decent living and can send money back to Cambodia also.
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