My senior year of high school my dad who is a Commanding Officer 05 in the U.S Navy was stationed in Singapore (South East Asia). While he was stationed there I went and spent the summer traveling south east Asia with him. We went to Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia and Cambodia. I am not sure why but out of all those places, culturally, Cambodia was the area that touched my heart the most. My eyes were opened to what real poverty is, and what real fear of your life is. Because the Khmer Rouge is still present in Cambodia. So when I stumbled upon this article about women I immediately wanted to write a blog about it.
DV against women is becoming a popular campaign in the United States so it was cool to see how the same topic translates into other countries and the similarities or differences within the same genre. I also liked the fact that in a country that is so poverty stricken with an abusive government (according to our tour guide Lee) that even though this system or law is flawed because it is only considered violence if they shed blood, but that SOMETHING was happening. it is a start at least in some sort of direction.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jinamoore/cambodia-domestic-violence#.qaOLKn5xWp
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