OEC with its first name as Operations Enfants du Cambodge took its birth on 1st March 1996, authorized by paper no 198 sjn, dated 14 March 1997 of Ministry of Interior, focusing its activities on serving children of father or mother wounded by mine explosion, or parents member infected by HIV/AIDS, hospitalized in reference hospital of Battambang.
Step by step the activities of Operations Enfants de Battambang, supported by international organizations and foundation, extended its operational scope to support orphans of AIDS parents, disabled children, children of poor families, children living in areas facing difficulties and to empower poor children and young people not attending formal school by organizing non-formal education and health care for them. These supporting activities spread out to other nearby provinces, Banteay Meanchey, Pursat, and Pailin that caused the organization to raise its function to “Operations Enfants du Cambodge” (OEC), approved by paper no 1564 sjn on 5 December 2006 of Ministry of Interior.
General Evaluation
OEC organized a general assembly on 25 August 2010 in Kampong Som city evaluating its 15 yea-work from 1996 to 2010 in paying serious attention to the real cultural, social and political environment. As result, the assembly decided to amplify the past activities with effective and strong commitment to develop rights, freedom and liberty of children through access to education, in preventing and fighting physical abuse, sexual exploitation of women and their children throughout operational fields. The participants entrusted OEC to adjust its mission in adding support for formal and informal human rights education based on World Program for Human Rights, first phase 2005-2009 and second phase 2010-2014 which have been supported by Cambodian Education Ministry stated in its initiatives, received by Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on 24 July 2009.
Additionally the participants asked OEC to prepare documents and conduct training for OEC staff on human rights, women rights and children rights of human rights; inter-relation between Human Rights and Democracy; Human Rights and Good Governance; human rights and development; human rights and the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) so that all OEC staffs can commonly with a same effort integrate human rights, children rights and women rights in all projects through all activities to strengthen individual integrity and national harmony.
