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Maids still missing as deal with Malaysia nears
- 3 June 2014
- The Cambodia Daily
- Civil society / Government / Government services / Human rights / Informal migration for labor / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Local workers abroad / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Interior / Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training / Offshore recruitment and employment / Social development
- ACRA / Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies / Hun Sen / International Labor Organization / Job Asia / Koy Kuong / Legal Support for Children and Women / LSCW / Ly Vichuta / Malaysian aid / Memorandum of Understanding / Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Ministry of Interior / Ministry of Labor / OThsman Hassan / Ros Srey Pich / Seng Sakada / T&P recruitment agency / Tbong Khmum Province
When Ros Srey Pich was 19, she signed a contract with a recruitment agency that would send her to work as a maid in Malaysia. The recruitment agency, Job Asia, had sourced the teenager from what is now Tbong Khmum province, telling her poor family that ...
Phorn Bopha and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/maids-still-missing-as-deal-with-malaysia-nears-60302/
Trafficker gets 10 years
- 30 April 2014
- The Phnom Penh Post
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The manager of Giant Ocean International, a now-defunct recruitment firm notorious for abuse scandals, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in jail for trafficking hundreds of Cambodian fishermen to work in slave-like conditions overseas. Taiwanese national Lin Yu-shin, who ran the firm, was arrested in May ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea and Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trafficker-gets-10-years
Ministry, NGOs Meet Over Trafficking Report
- 2 July 2013
- Gender / Human trafficking / Informal migration for labor / Labor / Legal education for the public / Local workers abroad / Offshore recruitment and employment / Women in development
- ACRA / CARAM / child prostitution / Chou Bun Eng / CLEC / Community Legal Education Center / Corruption / Human trafficking / illegal migrant workers / International Organization for Migration / Legal Support for Children and Women / LSCW / LSCW director Ly Vichuta / maids / Malaysian aid / Migrant Workers / Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Ministry of Interior / prostitution / Secretary of State Chou Bun Eng / Svay Pak / the Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies / U.N. Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking / UNIAP / US Embassy / US Embassy / Winrock International
Ministry of Interior officials held a closed-door meeting Monday with NGO representatives to contest Cambodia’s recent downgrade on the U.S. State Department’s Global Trafficking in Persons Report, which the ministry will discuss in a meeting with the U.S. Embassy this week. The annual report, released last ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-ngos-meet-over-trafficking-report-32932/
Trafficked numbers rising
- 22 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Human rights / Human trafficking / Informal migration for labor / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Local workers abroad / Marine and coastal areas / Offshore recruitment and employment / Siem Reap / Social development / Water resources
- abused workers / Africa / African coast / anti-trafficking / Anti-trafficking NGOs / Anti-Trafficking project / Argentina / Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies / Bosnia-Herzegovina / child labor / child labour / CLEC / Community Legal Education Centre / Environmental Justice Foundation / exploitative employment sectors / Fishermen / Fishing / fishing boat / forced labor / forced labour / Giant Ocean / Giant Ocean International Fishery / grievance mechanism / Hong Kong / Human trafficking / Indonesia / International Labour Organization’s Maritime Labour Convention / International Organization for Migration / IOM / Juliette Williams / Legal Support for Children and Women / Lin Yu Shin / LSCW / Malaysian aid / Mauritius / Ministry of Labour / MLC / Mom Sokchar / Phiev Khay / Philippines / recruitment agency / repatriation / SehaYatim / Shelley Thio / Siem Reap / Singapore / Singapore market / Singapore Ministry of Manpower / Singapore’s Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority / Step Up Marine Enterprise / Taiwan / Thailand / trafficking / trafficking complaint / Transient Workers Count Too / TWC2 / Victor Lim / Work in Fishing Convention
Their stories have become all too familiar – Cambodian fishermen enslaved on fishing boats after being promised lucrative jobs overseas. They’re also becoming increasingly common. Anti-trafficking NGOs told the Post this week that they have noticed an exponential increase in the number of trafficking complaints from ...
Danson Cheong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265773/National/trafficked-numbers-rising.html
