Charity Calls on UK Gov’t to Act for Cambodian Workers
A report by a U.K.-based charity has highlighted the low pay of Cambodian garment workers and called on the British government to intervene in disputes involving Southeast Asian factories supplying British retailers. Restricting Rights, a report published Tuesday by anti-poverty charity War on Want, looks at the lives of female migrant workers in factories in Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia. The charity interviewed workers in the three countries, including 30 staff in Cambodia who had moved from the countryside to work in garment factories. …
