The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) declared on Thirthday to give $24 million to the Royal Government of Cambodia in a view to help strengthening population potential and health in the kingdom.
According to a local online newspaper, Madame Lene Kroll Christiansen , representative of UNFPA in Cambodia, told Mr. Prak Sokhon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the ministry building that this aid will be for four years, from 2016 to 2018. And the main goal of the aid is to strengthen sexual and reproductive health, youth potential, gender equality, women's right, and population potential.
Responding to this act of goodwill, the minister said thank to Madame Christiansen as well as to UNFPA in Cambodia for their kindness of helping Cambodian to develop their country by giving priorities to women empowering and to the fight against the violence against women.
Regrading this issue, Mr. Sokhon added that many concerned Cambodian institutions are making efforts to draft a law relating to the surrogate mother in order to make the surrogate pregnancies legal in the country.
"Delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential fulfilled," wrote UNFPA Cambodia on its website.
As a result, UNFPA is working to help women and young people around the world to live a happy and healthy reproductive lives.
According to its website, UNFPA started to work in Cambodia in 1993, since then, maternal mortality is reduced to almost to two-thirds. Cambodian women now could plan when and where to have children.
However, as more and more rural young people come to live and search for job in urban areas, UNFPA said that many problems arise from sexual misconduct and exploitation.
"Too few people have comprehensive knowledge on HIV/AIDS or where to access abortion services. Additionally, with population aging being an emerging issue in Cambodia over the next few decades, the demand for better and more affordable health resources will continue to increase." UNFPA wrote on their website.
UNFPA added that gender-based violence is very common in the kingdom. In consequence, it causes many physical injuries as well as metal trauma for life. To tackle this problem, more work have to be done at national level as well as at grassroot level so that Central and local government could issue the right policies and services at the right time and place.
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