Signed up for work, forced into marriage
An NGO is working to free two Cambodian women forced into marriage in China, a representative of the organisation said yesterday. Huy Pichsovann, program officer at the Community Legal Education Center (CLEC), said that the two women, aged 22 and 27, were enticed from their Kampong Cham homes in March to accept work in Shanghai. Once they arrived, however, they were both forced into marriage. “A broker lured them to go to China, where they were told they would have a job with a high salary, but when they arrived, they were forcibly married to men they do not love,” Pichsovann said. …
James Hall and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/signed-work-forced-marriage
