Women in Cambodia have taken to social media to protest a proposed law that would police women’s clothing in the name of keeping “public order.”
According to Reuters, the draft legislation called the “Law on Public Order” would regulate men’s and women’s dress, banning women from wearing clothing deemed “too short” or “too see-through.” According to the outlet, the law would take effect next year if approved by Cambodia’s legislature.
“It’s good to wear something no shorter than the middle of the thighs,” Cambodian interior ministry secretary Ouk Kimlek told the Thomson Reuters Foundation last week when discussing the draft.
In full: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep4q9a/cambodian-women-protest-new-law-police-clothing
