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Cambodian maids raring to go

23 September 2013
The Star Online
Education and training / Gender / Industries / Informal migration for labor / Labor / Local workers abroad / Offshore recruitment and employment / Social development / Vocational education / Women in development
Malaysian aid / Singapore / Singapore Ministry of Manpower

At 5am, without any alarm clock going off, a dozen Cambodian maids wake up with near-military precision. Over the next hour, the women sweep, wash and scrub spotless their two-storey training centre in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. They all want to be maids in Singapore, eager ...

 The Star Online Staff
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Regional/2013/09/23/Cambodian-maids-raring-to-go.aspx

Trafficked numbers rising

22 May 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Human rights / Human trafficking / Informal migration for labor / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Local workers abroad / Marine and coastal areas / Offshore recruitment and employment / Siem Reap / Social development / Water resources
abused workers / Africa / African coast / anti-trafficking / Anti-trafficking NGOs / Anti-Trafficking project / Argentina / Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies / Bosnia-Herzegovina / child labor / child labour / CLEC / Community Legal Education Centre / Environmental Justice Foundation / exploitative employment sectors / Fishermen / Fishing / fishing boat / forced labor / forced labour / Giant Ocean / Giant Ocean International Fishery / grievance mechanism / Hong Kong / Human trafficking / Indonesia / International Labour Organization’s Maritime Labour Convention / International Organization for Migration / IOM / Juliette Williams / Legal Support for Children and Women / Lin Yu Shin / LSCW / Malaysian aid / Mauritius / Ministry of Labour / MLC / Mom Sokchar / Phiev Khay / Philippines / recruitment agency / repatriation / SehaYatim / Shelley Thio / Siem Reap / Singapore / Singapore market / Singapore Ministry of Manpower / Singapore’s Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority / Step Up Marine Enterprise / Taiwan / Thailand / trafficking / trafficking complaint / Transient Workers Count Too / TWC2 / Victor Lim / Work in Fishing Convention

Their stories have become all too familiar – Cambodian fishermen enslaved on fishing boats after being promised lucrative jobs overseas. They’re also becoming increasingly common. Anti-trafficking NGOs told the Post this week that they have noticed an exponential increase in the number of trafficking complaints from ...

 Danson Cheong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265773/National/trafficked-numbers-rising.html

Pilot scheme plans to send maids to Singapore

4 February 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Gender / Women in development
Association of Employment Agencies (AEA) / Cambodian women / Contracts / domestic workers / Filipino / Indonesian government / labour agencies / minimum wage / Ministry of Labour / rights groups / Singapore / Singapore employers / Singapore Ministry of Manpower

Four hundred Cambodian women could be sent to Singapore as soon as the middle of this year to work as maids under a pilot scheme by the governments of Cambodia and Singapore. The Post has obtained an internal circular the Singapore Ministry of Manpower sent to ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013020461152/National/maids-heading-to-singapore.html

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