Human trafficking in Cambodia has received considerable attention in recent years, with a focus primarily on sex workers. But labor trafficking is emerging as an equally important problem. In the past four and a half years, there has been a substantial increase in trafficking, exploitation and abuses of Cambodian workers. Thousands of vulnerable Cambodians fall prey to human trafficking syndicates and an unregulated labor recruitment industry and are sent as domestic workers or fishermen abroad into situations that amount to forced labor, trafficking, and debt bondage. Abuses include child recruitment, forced confinement, unpaid wages, dismal working conditions, physical and sexual abuse, enforced disappearances, and limited access to assistance or redress. A number of Cambodian migrant workers died in the past years. In the vast majority of cases, Cambodian authorities have failed to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators operating in Cambodia.