Last September, Khmer Thavrak youth group member Eng Malai was arrested after attending a non-violent protest demanding justice for Rong Chhun after the union leader’s imprisonment.

In prison, Malai faces a daily struggle with disease, injury and stress.

“For sleeping, it is so crowded,” her sister said. “The cell is so small, but they put so many people inside.”

In the lead-up to #IWD2021 LICADHO is highlighting the grave conditions facing every woman and girl locked in Cambodia's dangerously overcrowded prisons.

Women activists should be supported, not imprisoned.