New Lgbt Policies Necessary: Cchr

The Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) has called on schools to adopt a flexible school uniform policy to help transgender students and for the government to introduce LGBT anti-discrimination laws, in partnership with a USAID program worth almost $300,000.

The two-year program, called We Are the Same and launched on Wednesday, is a social media network and mobile platform to give LGBT people information and support.

The groups combined forces in the wake of troubling statistics for LGBT people: according to a December 2015 survey by Rainbow Community Kampuchea, almost one-third of LGBT Cambodians had never come out and more than one-fifth wished they were straight.

National media programming addressing LGBT issues will be broadcast in every province, US Embassy spokesperson Jay Raman said via email.

Public misconceptions about LGBT persons are expected to be...