Need for more transparency
GREATER transparency along the garment supply chain, from producers to buyers, is required in order to strengthen the accountability of retailers, factories and governments in protecting the rights of workers, Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said yesterday. … Speaking in Phnom Penh at a discussion on business and human rights in the garment sector, Virak made reference to the recent case of workers left jobless after the closing of a Cambodian factory. Workers have taken their protest to the Swedish Embassy, claiming H&M, an international buyer of Cambodian garments, should share in the responsibility of lost wages, but H&M say the factory was no longer producing their products at the time it closed. … For the first two months of this year, the number of labour disputes increased 50 per cent compared with the same period last year, said Yim Serey Vathanak, national project co-ordinator of the International Labor Organization. …
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