Curtain factory workers break windows during strike
More than 400 employees of a curtain factory in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet City were on strike for the eighth day Thursday over alleged labor abuses and unmet demands, a day after some of the workers lobbed rocks at the building, causing thousands of dollars ...
Huot Chanpav
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/curtain-factory-workers-break-windows-during-strike-92211/
Victim’s kin ‘no right to cash’
The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has defended its decision not to pay a survivors’ pension to the family of a teenager killed in a ceiling collapse at the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kampong Speu province last May. On the anniversary of the collapse on ...
Sen David and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/victim%E2%80%99s-kin-%E2%80%98no-right-cash%E2%80%99
Care lacking for victims: study
While mental health services are crucial to the recovery process for the Kingdom’s victims of human trafficking, stigma and limited resources remain a barrier in the provision of and access to those services, according to a new study published yesterday. The research, published in the International ...
Rebecca Moss
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/care-lacking-victims-study
Migrants abused in Thai poultry industry
Cambodian migrants working in Thailand to process chicken for European consumers are forced into debt bondage and subjected to a range of rights violations, according to a new report.Trapped in the Kitchen of the World, which was released on Wednesday by European NGOs Swedwatch and ...
Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrants-abused-thai-poultry-industry
Fake Orphanage Ordered Closed After Alleged Migrant Scam
The Ministry of Interior has suspended the operation of an orphanage after it found that its director had colluded with a recruitment agency to cheat migrant workers out of an alleged $600,000, officials said Tuesday. “The Ministry of Interior temporarily suspends all activities of Our Friends ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fake-orphanage-ordered-closed-after-alleged-migrant-scam-51114/
More than 100 garment workers in two factories faint en masse
More than 100 garment and shoe factory workers fainted in two separate incidents Thursday, the first reported factory faintings of the year, according to local officials. Eighty-two garment workers fainted at the Crystal Martin factory in Kandal province after inhaling fumes from leaking battery acid, a ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-than-100-garment-workers-in-two-factories-faint-en-masse-53332/
Construction workers call for baseline wage
A day ahead of May Day, the Building and Wood Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia held a small rally outside the National Assembly demanding the inclusion of construction workers within the minimum wage framework and new guidelines for workplace safety. ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/construction-workers-call-baseline-wage
Nike Representatives Visit Factory, Talk Faintings
Representatives from US sports brand Nike yesterday visited the company’s supplier factory in Kompong Speu province to investigate the cause of last week’s mass faintings, officials from the Ministry of Labor said. Pok Vanthath, deputy director of vocational safety for the Labor Ministry’s health department, said ...
Young garment worker faints on shift, dies later
The Ministry of Labour is investigating the death of a 19-year-old female garment worker who fainted at a factory in Prey Veng on Thursday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/young-garment-worker-faints-shift-dies-later
Free state healthcare extended
The Health Minister has ordered civil servants to prioritise the implementation of new social security services for public officials, former government workers and veterans, which came into force at the start of this year. ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099635/free-state-healthcare-extended/
Ministry seeks ways to reduce road accidents involving garment workers
The Labour Ministry is seeking ways to reduce traffic accidents involving garment workers as the number of death and injury remains high. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50696110/ministry-seeks-ways-to-reduce-road-accidents-involving-garment-workers
Nike Visits Over Recent Faintings at Factory
Representatives from US sports brand Nike will arrive today to investigate last week’s mass faintings at their supplier factory in Kompong Speu province, officials from the Labor Ministry and an International Labor Organization (ILO) representative said yesterday. Pok Vanthath, deputy director of vocational safety for the ...
370 workers faint at Cambodia factories after nearby farmer sprays pesticides
About 370 workers fainted at Cambodian factories in the past two days, possibly because of pesticide spraying on nearby rice fields, officials said Friday. The garment industry is Cambodia’s biggest export earner, employing about 700,000 people in more than 700 garment and shoe factories. In ...
The Associated Press News Staff
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/370-workers-faint-at-cambodia-factories-after-nearby-farmer-sprays-pesticides-1.2667077
Cambodian police burn 5.1 tons of fake medicines
About 5.1 tons of counterfeit medicines were burned down on Friday at a dumpsite on the outskirts of capital Phnom Penh by Cambodian economic police. ...
China.org.cn News Staff
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2014-11/28/content_34177271.htm
No fake license plates found at military police headquarters
The first two days of a new crackdown on the improper use of military license plates have focused on vehicles parked at the National Military Police Headquarters in Phnom Penh, a spokesman said Tuesday. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/no-fake-license-plates-found-at-military-police-headquarters-98521/
Fire destroys factory; workers unharmed
A fire tore through a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district on Monday evening, destroying more than half of the building and its inventory but injuring no workers, an official said Tuesday. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fire-destroys-factory-workers-unharmed-97760/
HRW to EU: End migrant abuse
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the European Union (EU) to renew efforts to eliminate forced labour and other abusive treatment within the Thai fishing industry, noting that a large number of workers were from Cambodia and Myanmar. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hrw-eu-end-migrant-abuse
Deadly year for garment factory commutes: Report
More than 7,000 garment workers were injured and 130 killed during traffic accidents that occurred while they were being transported to and from factories in the first 11 months of the year, according to a report from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/18538/deadly-year-for-garment-factory-commutes--report/
Amid building boom, safety left dangling
Sroeun, 43, a former rice farmer from Kandal province, said he was sure there had never been any accidents at his construction site. “Small things happen. Scratches on our hands,” he said, declining to give his full name as a supervisor stood nearby during a break ...
Aisha Down
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/amid-building-boom-safety-left-dangling-122063/
Cambodia defends Its human rights record
Cambodia presented its human rights report before the United Nations Office in Geneva amid growing allegations that abuses are being systematically committed by state forces. The UN committee acknowledged that Cambodia has introduced some reforms in recent years, in particular land reform and registration Of ...
Mong Palatino
http://thediplomat.com/2015/03/cambodia-defends-its-human-rights-record/