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Activists in Cambodia are worried that a proposed law could be used to undermine women’s freedom and reinforce a culture of impunity around sexual violence. People deemed to be dressed inappropriately by the police could be fined.

The draft legislation would ban women from wearing anything ‘’too short’’ or ‘’too see-through’’, as Sopheap Chak, executive director of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights explains.

(Picture: people walking in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 11 August 2020. Credit: EPA)