Advocating for Cambodia’s Rainbow Families
Since 2009, IWDA partner RoCK has been working to break down these barriers to create a Cambodian society where LGBTQ+ people can enjoy full inclusion and equal rights in all aspects of their lives. The focus of this work has been on chipping away at discriminatory attitudes and practices within the three institutions at the core of Cambodian society: the family, community and the state.
Through community organising and advocacy, RoCK is campaigning to increase the acceptance of LGBTQ+ persons and ‘rainbow families’ in Cambodia, referring to families where one or more members’ gender identity or sexual orientation challenges heteronormativity.
Channa and Sopheap are one of these families who were able to step by step gain more recognition and acceptance from their families and communities, and, thanks to RoCK’s work, were able to sign a Declaration of Family Relationship as interim evidence of their relationship while they are not yet …