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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]