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New passport offices to protect migrant workers

Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday said the government is trying to protect Cambodian migrant workers by creating more passport offices and cooperating with international bodies to protect them from labour abuses. ...

Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50492559/new-passport-offices-to-protect-migrant-workers/

NCCT investigating and closing down factories over child labour

The permanent vice chair of the National Committee for Counter Trafficking (NCCT) delivered a progress report on efforts to eradicate child labour in the Kingdom on Tuesday, saying that factories are being investigated, and some shut down, for employing children illegally. ...

Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ncct-investigating-and-closing-down-factories-over-child-labour

More Cambodian women trafficked to Saudi, officials say

The number of Cambodian women now thought to be caught in Saudi Arabia’s sex industry after being trafficked in the past year has risen to more than 20, officials said on Wednesday. However, the government remained tight-lipped about its efforts to rescue the women, while two ...

Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodian-women-trafficked-saudi-officials-say-117126/

Graft hindering fight against human trafficking, report says

Widespread corruption among government officials is thwarting Cambodia’s efforts to combat human trafficking, the U.S. State Department said in an annual assessment that upgraded the country’s ranking, but found that it still failed to meet minimum standards.   ...

Sonia Kohlbacher
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/graft-hindering-fight-against-human-trafficking-report-says-114944/

Authorities charge Chinese man with illegally transporting Cambodians

Cambodian human trafficking authorities charged a Chinese national on Thursday with attempting to illegally transport 18 men to work in China in what one government official said was the first such case of trafficking Cambodian men to the country. ...

Savborey Ouk
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/authorities-charge-chinese-man-with-illegally-transporting-cambodians-07302015154825.html

Youths gather in effort to make migration safer

A gathering of some 50 youths from five different provinces met in Phnom Penh last week to discuss the problems of forced migration and its dangers. The Community Youth Network leaders came from provinces where migrant work is common, to discuss how to make it ...

Nov Povleakhena
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/youths-gather-in-effort-to-make-migration-safer/2824704.html

More trafficked in 2014: gov’t

A mother whose daughter was trafficked into the Malaysian sex industry has pleaded with lawmakers to help rescue her child, as new figures from Cambodia’s Interior Ministry reveal an upswing in human trafficking victims rescued last year. According to the ministry, although sex trafficking cases ...

Sen David, Buth Reaksmey Kongkea and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/more-trafficked-2014-govt

Migrants in ‘hurry’ to get back to work

A survey of 10 Cambodian provinces is studying the whereabouts and plans of migrant workers who were recently repatriated from Thailand, fearing crackdowns on foreign workers there after the coup. During a workshop hosted by Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility (CARAM) yesterday, Ministry ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/migrants-%E2%80%98hurry%E2%80%99-get-back-work

Illegal migration ticking up

llegall migration is on the rise, but human trafficking cases appear to be declining, according to the government’s annual labor migration report, released yesterday. Speaking at the start of a three-day workshop held at the Ministry of Interior that involving embassies, NGOs and government officials, Chou ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032764724/National/illegal-migration-ticking-up.html

Movement on migrant Memorandum of Understanding

A migrant worker Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is back in the spotlight after Malaysia yesterday agreed to send a delegation of senior government officials to meet with their Cambodian counterparts tomorrow and Thursday. MoU talks are of mounting importance in the face of escalating evidence of ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012112059823/National-news/movement-on-migrant-mou.html

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