Apps against violence on Cambodian women.

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Apps against violence on Cambodian women.

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Women’s groups in Cambodia are using the youth obsession with technology to try to change attitudes in a society where many think domestic violence is normal...

Sun is one of three women who have been supported by the Asia Foundation to tap into Cambodia’s growing hunger for mobile technology to tackle violence against women. Sun has designed Krousar Koumrou, an educational app meant to prevent domestic violence by challenging negative attitudes towards women. In Khmer, Krousar Koumrou means model family...

Cambodian proverbs such as “men are gold, women are cloth” or “plates in the basket usually rattle” show just how deeply entrenched ideas of women’s inferiority are in society.

The basket, Sun explains, is a metaphor for family and, “since you live together, you are in physical proximity to each other, so sometimes you hit each other and things break”. The prevailing perception is that violence – be it physical, sexual or psychological – is inevitable and normal, she says...
http://www.theguardian.com/global-devel ... ar-koumrou

Anything that helps to question the "normality" of violence in Cambodia is useful IMO.
The amount of violent stuff that CEO News reports almost everyday is shocking. Changing attitudes toward women is definitely a part of what needs to done. You go ladies. :thumb:
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