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Cambodia factory monitoring “needs urgent reform”

28 February 2013
Just-Style
Better Factories Cambodia / Better Work Program / BFC / Black Box Monitoring / Cambodia / Chinese aid / Garment factories / Garment Industry / garment workers / garment-producing countries / ILO / Indonesia / international buyers / International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic / International Labour Organization / international labour standards / Labour laws / labour rights / labour standards / Monitoring in the Dark / Stanford Law School / temporary contracts / textile exports / UCTA / US market / US-Cambodia Textile and Apparel Trade Agreement / worker rights / Worker Rights Consortium / working conditions

The long-running Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) monitoring programme is in urgent need of reform, according to a new report, which suggests the country’s reputation as a standard-bearer for apparel workers’ rights is “wearing thin”. The report, “Monitoring in the Dark – an evaluation of the International Labour ...

http://www.just-style.com/analysis/cambodia-factory-monitoring-needs-urgent-reform_id117121.aspx

Caution: Children at work

2 November 2011
The Phnom Penh Post
Agriculture and fishing / Crime and law enforcement / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Social development / Unions
child labour / children / Corruption / ethnic minorities / forced labour / indigenous minorities / international labour standards / International Trade Union Confederation / labor / labour / trade union rights / Unions / women / workforce / World Trade Organisation General Council

Labour legislation in Cambodia is so weak and so often ignored that half the Kingdom’s children between the ages of seven and 14 participate in the workforce, the world’s largest federation of unions has told the World Trade Organisation General Council in Geneva. Children, women and ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011110252486/National-news/caution-children-at-work.html

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Caution: Children at work

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