FEMALE beer promotion workers in Siem Reap town earned salaries that covered only half of their living expenses last year, a fact that led some 57 percent to engage in sex work, according to a report released last week by a Siem Reap-based NGO.
The report, co-authored by Ian Lubek, a psychology professor at the University [...]
A PILOT program designed to curtail attacks against beer girls has drawn criticism from several women’s rights activists, who argue that it does not engage beer girls directly.
The Non-Violent Workplace Initiative, sponsored by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs along with the NGO Care in Cambodia, launched in May and is being piloted in six entertainment [...]
DESPITE efforts by the government and NGOs to curtail sexual harassment, beer girls in Cambodia continue to be targeted by intoxicated customers who all too frequently resort to violence, the NGO Care in Cambodia noted in a press release issued last week announcing the launch of a new campaign against violence in the workplace.
“We still [...]
I do not know the definition of “Beer Garden Girl”, which is the new term called since the beer gardens or restaurants mushroom almost throughout Cambodia. Now, I just try to determine the term of “Beer Garden Girl” which is the kind of girls who serve or work at night at Beer Garden, not [...]
Cambodian beer girls or beer promotion girls and beer garden girls always are under criticism from the public while they are working and serving as beer girls at beer gardens or night club. We can ask ourselves whether those girls really want to work at such places. It is because that they are uneducated and [...]
