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Article | No Place to Play: Childhoods Spent Behind Bars

1 June 2025

Every child deserves a childhood free from fear and hunger, with opportunities to learn and spaces to play. Those raised behind bars are denied this right. To mark International Children’s Day, LICADHO is highlighting the experiences of pregnant women and mothers incarcerated with their children in Cambodia’s prisons.

Under Cambodian law, children are allowed to stay in prison with their mothers until the age of three. Here, isolated from the outside world and deprived of opportunities for education, adequate nourishment, and space to play, they effectively serve sentences alongside their mothers. Prison authorities only allocate an additional 1,750 riel (approx. $0.45 USD) per child per day for food and other basic needs; a rate that has not changed since 2018.

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Video | Debt

14 February 2025audio available

Please remember that no one has the right to pressure or force you to sell your land or house to pay off debts outside of the court system.

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