Cambodia
About 52 per cent of children aged between seven and 14, a figure that stands for over 1.4 million children in absolute terms, performed work in economic activities, according to the ITUC.
Seven out of every 10 child workers between the ages of five and 17 work in the agricultural sector. Children work as street vendors, collect rubbish, and perform other types of labor.
Rampant Child Labor in Cambodia
by Bridget Di Certo and Chhay Channyda [from The Phnom Penh Post, Wednesday, 02 November 2011 12:04] Labour legislation in Cambodia is so weak and so often ignored that half the Kingdom’s children between the ages of seven and 14 participate in the workforce, the world’s largest federation of unions has told the World Trade [...]
Maid Firm Exposed
Yi Somphose, Tep Nimol, David Boyle and Eak Soung Chhay Scores of crying women who said they had been forcibly detained and girls who claimed to have received fake documents to conceal the fact that they were as young as 16-years-old were discovered at a centre owned by the SKMM Investment Group labour recruitment firm [...]
Prostitution in Cambodia: ‘New law doesn’t protect me’
Guardian Weekly By: Claire Colley In March 2008, Cambodia saw the implementation of a new law entitled: Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation. Aimed at offering protection to women in prostitution by making the selling of sex illegal, it has resulted in clean-up operations and police raids of red light areas. Women in prostitution [...]
