Violence against Women and Girls in Cambodia

Positioning violence against women and girls (VAWG) as one of Cambodia’s most systematic and widespread human rights abuses, this chapter examines its multiplicity of forms. 1 The United Nations defines violence against women as

any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.