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Monday 25 November 2013

CCHR Press release - CCHR publishes map and data of women elected to the National Assembly in July 2013

CCHR PRESS RELEASE Phnom Penh, 25 November 2013

CCHR publishes map and data of women elected to the National Assembly in July 2013

On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (“CCHR”) releases today – 25 November 2013 – a map and data analysis of female Member of Parliaments (“MPs”) who won seats in the National Assembly elections (the “NA Elections”), which were held on 28 July 2013 in the Kingdom of Cambodia (“Cambodia”). The map and data are hosted on CCHR’s award-winning Cambodian Human Rights Portal at sithi.org/female_elected_national_election_map.  

Women won only 25 seats out of 123 seats, or 20.33%, in the National Assembly. Out of the 68 seats won by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (“CPP”), 18 seats went to women (26.47%), and out of the 55 seats won by the opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (“CNRP”), only seven went to women (12.73%). This decrease to just above 20% representation is deeply concerning, especially given that these elections were the last opportunity for Cambodia to reach the Cambodian Millennium Development Goal, target 3.8, to increase female representation in the National Assembly to 30% by 2015.

The data analysis is based on the official results of the National Assembly elections released by the National Election Committee (“NEC”) on 8 September 2013.  The data can be viewed for both the whole country and for individual provinces, as well as by individual political parties. Short biographical profiles of each woman elected to the National Assembly are also included.

Chor Chanthyda, Project Coordinator of the Project to Promote Women’s Political Representation, comments:

“The drop in female representation in the National Assembly with these last elections demonstrates that much more still needs to be done to achieve gender equality in Cambodian politics. While gender equality is certainly a goal in and of itself, it is also necessary in order to achieve progress with regards to women’s rights in all sectors of Cambodian society and in reducing violence against women, which remains a significant problem in Cambodia. We hope that by making data regarding female representation in politics more accessible to the general public, we can start generating concrete change.”

For more information, please contact Chor Chanthyda via telephone at +855 (0) 12 515 506 or email at thyda@cchrcambodia.org or CCHR Consultant Juliette Rousselot via telephone at +855 (0) 153 50 620 or email at julietterousselot@cchrcambodia.org.

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