Policy Alone Inadequate: Youth Advocate

Cambodian students from the Royal Cambodian Administration school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Photo: AP)

Pich Samnang, VOA Khmer
Phnom Penh
Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Facing a rising number of young people who are graduating school, looking for work and entering society in general, the government is drafting an official national youth policy. But advocates from the growing demographic say a policy alone is not enough.

“If we have only the document, but no institution to implement it, it will be useless,” Sun Chansen, president of the Khmer Youth Association, told “Hello VOA” Monday.

Sun Chansen, whose association represents six non-governmental organizations that work with young people, said a national youth council must be created to enforce the policy.

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