This #IWD2021​, LICADHO is calling for immediate improvements to the grave conditions facing every woman and girl locked in Cambodia's dangerously overcrowded prisons.

Among these women are human rights defenders Chhoeun Daravy, Eng Malai, Long Kunthea and Phuon Keoraksmey. They have tirelessly stood up for the rights of others, but they have been put behind bars in an attempt to stifle their peaceful activism.

“I think about how I don’t know what day my child will be free like others”, said Long Kunthea’s mother. “It is so difficult because it is so crowded in the prisons.”

Women activists should be supported, not imprisoned.