Parliamentarians, representatives of the Ministries of Interior and Women’s Affairs, researchers and staff of local and international organizations and indigenous women from four provinces were among the participants, when the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the German Technical Cooperation supported the Launch of the Action Research on “Promoting Political Participation of Indigenous Women in Cambodia” organized by the Committee to Promote Women in Politics.

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When asked by the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Cambodian women from very different spheres of life evaluated the fundamental problems of women in their country as being a lack of access to education and thus high illiteracy rates, economic dependency, domestic violence, and hierarchical gender relations founded on traditional role stereotypes.

“Good environment, good health” was a slogan left by a participant taking part in one of the interactive displays at the Heinrich Böll Foundation Environment Day booth, where thousands of participants attended the two day Environment Day exhibition campaign organised by the Ministry of Environment. Forty exhibition booths of ‘green’ promotion were open to the public from the 31st May to 1st June 2010, where a range of participants attended varying from civil servants, NGO staff, monks, students, journalists, private sector workers and passerby’s from the public.

“More wealth can result in more corruption” cautioned Dr. Ramos Horta Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and President of Timor-Leste participants at a Dialogue on Transforming Natural Resource Wealth into a Source for Sustainable Growth and Democratic Development organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Cambodians for Resource Revenue Transparency.