Concern Grows Over Women’s Health, Equality

A Cambodian woman kisses her baby while walking through the slum village in Phnom Penh.(Photo: AP)

Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh
Thursday, 06 May 2010

Lawmakers and health officials from the UN are meeting Friday over the country’s progress on maternal mortality and gender equality, as concern grows that Cambodia is failing to meet its development goals and is in some cases losing ground.

“The maternal mortality rate is still at a high level, and it hasn’t fallen like the Cambodian government wants,” Ping Chutema, director of the Reproductive Health Association of Cambodia, told VOA Khmer on Thursday. “It is a very serious problem.”

Cambodia has so-called millennium development goals, which include lowering the rates of mothers who die in childbirth and improving gender equality, among others.

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