the wacettes — called so because they are the twenty-something gorgeously smart, beautiful and impassioned women of the Womyn’s Agenda for Change or WAC. 

atypical cambodian girls, they are the taking-no-shit-from-anyone variety, challenging an unjust order, constantly  occupied with such formidable issues as unfair trade, debt, globalization, violence against women, sex workers’ and women’s rights.  they have organized speak-outs and learning sessions among garment workers and sex workers, crafted information and awareness raising materials, engaged in international fora, dialogued with parliamentarians and such big potatoes in the country with the zeal and commitment that would put to shame their Cambodian elders - program technocrats of mainstream development organizations.       (more…)