Dozens of maids still missing in Malaysia, rights group says
Rights group Adhoc on Tuesday urged the government to work harder to help Cambodian domestic workers still suffering abuse from their employers in Malaysia or from the Cambodian recruitment agencies that sent them there, including 63 women the organization says have effectively disappeared. At a press conference in Phnom Penh, Adhoc said 122 women in Malaysia were either missing, unreachable by relatives, working under forced contract extensions, or had unresolved claims of unpaid wages or physical abuse— even as the government prepares to send more. … On Tuesday, Adhoc president Thun Saray said the Cambodian government was not doing enough to help the women it has already sent. … Of the 122 women deemed victims of abuse, Adhoc said that relatives in Cambodia have been unable to contact 29 of them for the past several months. Another 63 have not been reachable for at least a year and are considered to have effectively disappeared, the rights group said. …
