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Case studies
Sophal’s story
Sophal is 31. She and her inner-city community at Dey Krahorm village, Phonm Penh, resisted eviction for over three years, until the night it was stormed by hundreds of police and company workers who decimated the village in just a few hours.
Vanny’s story
Vanny is one of the leading figures in a high profile struggle against the largest forced eviction since the Khmer Rouge era. Vanny lives in what remains of the Boeung Kak Lake area of central Phonm Penh, an area of prime real estate once home to around 20,000 people.
Hong’s story
Hong is Kuy, one of Cambodia’s Indigenous Peoples who live in the Prey Lang forest, in northern Cambodia. Hong leads her community in a battle to protect their land and natural resources.
Mai’s story
Mai, 48, a mother of eight from Oddar Meanchey province, north-west Cambodia, was five months pregnant when she watched her home and all her possessions go up in flames.
Heap’s story
Heap’s husband was arrested and imprisoned on spurious charges the same day the authorities took all her village’s farming land. With no land and an absent husband, she was suddenly left alone to make ends meet for herself and her four young children.
The case of Rhaya
Rhaya was raped by her sister's husband just months after starting work as a domestic worker.
The case of Lenny
Lenny, a 14 year old girl from Java in Indonesia, suffered multiple forms of abuse when she became a domestic worker.
The case of Latifah
Latifah from Indonesia started working at 14 years old, and suffered sexual harassment from her male employer.
Saving Peru’s Indigenous mothers
In rural Peru, poor and Indigenous women are denied access to the proper health services needed to give birth safely, because of discrimination. The consequences can be fatal.
‘Why have children when you are so poor?’
Maria Luz, who lives with her mother and brothers in a one room house in Peru’s northern central highlands, doesn’t know exactly why her baby daughter died.
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8 February 2012, 11:02PM