INTERNATIONAL: On the morning of 29 April 2021, Women Peace Makers present their research at Himawari Hotel. Despite the vast programming around the world with the objective of achieving gender equality, empowering youth, and fostering inclusion among minority groups, minority girls are still invisible, ignored, and left behind.

Making the Space is a ground-breaking contribution that provides new knowledge at the intersection of gender, age, and identity. Over three years, research was conducted on the lived experiences, perspectives, challenges, issues, inner hopes, and dreams for the future of girls from four minority groups in Cambodia - Indigenous, ethnic Vietnamese, Cambodian, Muslim, and Khmer Krom.

The event will have a music performance of “Invisible Knot” by Heang, presentations by young minority women and policy makers, discussions, and a screening of a new documentary on minority girls in Cambodia.

Using a mixed-method approach of innovative participatory methods, minority girls and young women not only responded to researchers but were the researchers themselves. From design to analysis, community researchers who came from the participating minority communities collaborated with Women Peace Makers to create and deploy the most appropriate tools to gather new information and seek to capture the layers of the lies of minority girls in order to provide a more holistic picture.

Making the Space offers new findings that take into account the ways in which their gender, ethnicity, religion, and age exposed minority girls to overlapping forms of discrimination and marginalization. It also paves the way for more community-driven and participatory action research by communities that are the most impacted by the studies carried out on them.

This event is supported by Danmission, Voice, and Pangea Giving. To sign up for the event to attend in person or online, please register at http://makingthespace.eventbrite.com