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Maids find local Champion
- 13 November 2012
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Human rights / Informal labor / Informal migration for labor / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Local workers abroad / Offshore recruitment and employment / Social development
- aid agencies / American Center for International Labor Solidarity / Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies / Cambodian Domestic Worker Network / Cambodian maids / Community Legal Education Center / Government / Human Rights / IDEA / immigrant worker abuse / Independant Democracy of Informal Economy Association / International Labour Convention No 198 / job recruitment agencies / low wages / Media / Ministry of Interior / Ministry of Labour / Ministry of Women's Affairs / Moeun Tola / National Assembly President Heng Samrin / National Deputy Police Cheif Sok Phal / NGOs / open parliamentary forum / Ung Seang Rithy / Vorn Pao
The abuse of Cambodian maids overseas has become one of the most documented human rights violation here. But as the Government, media, NGOs and aid agencies focus their energies on domestic laborer living abroad, advocates have begun to urge that closer attention be paid to ...
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World Bank fund halt irks officials
- 10 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Multilateral development assistance / World Bank
- aid / aid agencies / aid contributor / aid contributors / alumina mine / Annette Dixon / Annette Dixon World Bank Country Director / bank / Boeung Kak Lake / Boeung Kak lake development / Boeung Kak Lake residents / Cambodia / Cambodian Government / cheap loans / Chinese aid / Chinese embassy / Chinese governmental documents / City Hall records / Contracts / Council of Ministers / Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan / country loans / Development / Embassy of Japan / Erdos / Erdos Hong Jun / Erdos Hong Jun Investment / Erdos Hong Jun Investment Company / funds / Government / Government officials / Governor Kep Chuktema / Housing / housing development / Human Rights / human rights abuses / Human Rights Task Force / Human Rights Taskforce secretariat Sia Phearum / human rights violations / Japanese aid / Japanese Ambassador / Japanese Ambassador Masafumi Kuroki / Japanese Embassy / Kep Chuktema / lakeside residents / land / Land dispute / land disputes / Lao Meng Khin / Lending / loans / local government officials / Masafumi Kuroki / Masafumi Kuroki the Japanese Ambassador / Mondulkiri / Mondulkiri Province / Phay Siphan / Phay Siphan Council of Ministers spokesman / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh municipal Government / Relocation / residents of Boeung Kak lake / rights froups / Senator Lao Meng Khin / Shukaku Inc / Sia Phearum / Sia Phearum secretariat of the Human Rights Task Force / Sihanoukville / suspension of funds / Tep Vanny / UN / United Nations / World Bank / World Bank central management and executive board / World Bank Country Director / World Bank Country Director Annette Dixon
THE government expressed disappointment yesterday with the World Bank’s announcement that it had halted new country loans due to the ongoing land dispute at Boeung Kak lake in Phnom Penh and vowed to raise the issue with the bank’s executive board. “We are very dissatisfied ...
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