Maid freeze wins support

Rights groups said yesterday a ban on sending Cambodian domestic workers to Malaysia – signed by the Prime Minister on Saturday – should not be lifted until both countries implemented measures to stop deaths, rapes, forced detainment and under-age recruitment in the labour sector. Groups including Licadho, Tenaganita and the opposition Sam Rainsy Party welcomed the ban by Prime Minister Hun Sen but said it had to be followed by concrete, legally binding mechanisms to clamp down on rampant exploitation in the recruitment industry…

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