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World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2020
Publication Year: 2020 / Sources: International Labour OrganizationThe enormous challenges in the world of work – including persistent inequalities and exclusion – make it more vital than ever to establish a clear picture of global employment and social trends. This requires critical reflection on the adequacy of our methods and concepts, with innovations where needed, to address today’s policy challenges. We need to question, for example, whether the unemployment rate provides the most reliable measure of labour market underperformance. We need to understand whether or not people of working age can realize their full potential in work.
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Human Development Report 2019: Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: Inequalities in human development in the 21st century
Publication Year: 2019 / Sources: United Nations Development ProgrammeIn every country many people have little prospect for a better future. Lacking hope, purpose or dignity, they watch from society’s sidelines as they see others pull ahead to ever greater prosperity. Worldwide many have escaped extreme poverty, but even more have neither the opportunities nor the resources to control their lives. Far too often gender, ethnicity or parents’ wealth still determines a person’s place in society.
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Human Development Report Cambodia 2019: Sustaining Natural Resources for All
Publication Year: 2019 / Sources: United Nations Development ProgrammeAs Cambodia continues its transition to a higher level of development, it faces a historic opportunity to manage its natural resources for the benefit of both people and the environment. Cambodia can mitigate mounting pressure on forests and other essential natural resources by diversifying patterns of access and use, while building the foundation for an economy that continues to be strong and fair, and, crucially, more sustainable.
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Trafficking in Persons Report 2020
Publication Year: 2020 / Sources: U.S. Department of StateAll of Cambodia’s 25 provinces are sources for human trafficking. Sex trafficking is largely clandestine; Cambodian and ethnic Vietnamese women and girls move from rural areas to cities and tourist destinations, where criminals exploit them in sex trafficking in brothels and, more frequently, clandestine sex establishments at beer gardens, massage parlors, salons, karaoke bars, retail spaces, and non-commercial sites.
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Trafficking in Persons Report 2019
Publication Year: 2019 / Sources: U.S. Department of StateCambodia is a source, transit and destination country for trafficked persons. Women and girls are trafficked internally for commercial exploitation. Men who migrate outside of Cambodia for work are sometimes subjected to forced labor, and some women and girls are trafficked abroad for prostitution or domestic work. Children, the disabled and the elderly are trafficked to beg or work on the streets of neighboring countries.
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