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Recruitment Agencies and the Employment of Cambodian Domestic Workers in Malaysia
Publication Year: 2011 / Sources: United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP)This research seeks to examine the process through which Cambodian female workers are recruited for the Malaysian domestic labour sector. It focuses on four keys aspects within the context of the existing legal frameworks: recruitment of workers, labour contracts, pre-departure training, and working conditions.
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LGBT Bullying in Cambodia‘s Schools
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)LGBT members of society are by definition guaranteed the same rights as everyone else; however, in Cambodia, while there are no homophobic religious traditions, there is at the same time no specific legal or normative protection for LGBT people, and societal attitudes remain largely negative towards LGBT issues. Family values are incredibly strong in Cambodian society and there is intense pressure on young people to enter traditional marriages and have children.
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Human Development Report 2015: Cambodia
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Cambodia’s Human Development Index value for 2014 is 0.555— which put the country in the medium human development category—positioning it at 143 out of 188 countries and territories. Between 1990 and 2014, Cambodia’s HDI value increased from 0.364 to 0.555, an increase of 52.4 percent or an average annual increase of about 1.77 percent.
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Human Development Report 2015
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)Human development is about enlarging human choices—focusing on the richness of human lives rather than simply the richness of economies (see infographic). Critical to this process is work, which engages people all over the world in different ways and takes up a major part of their lives.
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The Global Gender Gap Report 2015: Cambodia
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: World Economic ForumThe Index benchmarks national gender gaps on economic, political, education and health criteria, and provides country rankings that allow for effective comparisons across regions and income groups. Cambodia ranking this year is 109 out of 145 countries with the score, 0.662.
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