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Childhood Behind Bars: Growing Up in a Cambodian Prison
Publication Year: 2013 / Sources: LICADHOIn Cambodia today there are many young children living in prison with their mothers yet there is little understanding amongst authorities and society at large of the short and long term impact of prison life on children. In this, Cambodia is not alone – to date there are only a few studies of the effects on children who spend their early years behind bars.
Human Rights 2012: The Year in Review
Publication Year: 2013 / Sources: LICADHOThe human rights situation in Cambodia began 2012 teetering on the edge of a precipice, and by the end of the year had fallen off the cliff.
The sheer volume of shocking turns makes it difficult to choose where to begin a summary of 2012: Independent radio station owner Mam Sonando was sentenced to 20 years in prison on politically-motivated charges. The country’s most prominent environmental activist was shot dead in the for- est while investigating illegal logging. A journalist working on logging is- sues was murdered in Ratanakiri province. A town governor opened fire on protesting garment workers and has yet to spend a day in prison. And 17 leaders from Phnom Penh communities facing eviction spent time in prison.
Universal Periodic Review, Cambodia Joint Submission on Human Trafficking for Labor Exploitation
Publication Year: --- / Sources: Human Rights Watch, Community Legal Education Center, LICADHO, and LCSWHuman 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.
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The Risk of Movement: Migration in Cambodia
Publication Year: 2013 / Sources: Community Legal Education Center (CLEC)The purpose of this report is to expose that the men and women CLEC has worked to rescue throughout 2013 have all migrated under similar motivations, with similar but varying disastrous results. From January to December 2013, CLEC worked on more than 100 ongoing and new cases of labor trafficking and consulted with an estimated 300 families who have been involved with the process of both legal and illegal migration. From these cases, CLEC was able to compile a body of statistical and qualitative evidence that is presented here in an effort to understand the underlying complexities behind Cambodian labor migration. Our findings overwhelmingly supported the well-known ‘push’ theory, which argues that Cambodian migrants have chosen to migrate due to inadequate domestic wages and desolate employment opportunities at home. Furthermore, our findings show that many migrants choose this route even after learning of the risks – a telling fact that confirms how desperate the average Cambodian laborer is today.
The State of Health of Migrants Report
Publication Year: 2007 / Sources: Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and MobilityCoordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility (CARAM Cambodia) is a membership of CARAM Asia which has partners over twenty in South and Southeast in Asia. The State of Health of Migrants – Mandatory Testing Research is a production of CARAM Cambodia and it should be seen as tools for advocacy to decrease the vulnerability for STIs and HIV/AIDS of migrant workers. The research was jointly with CARAM Asia partners as regional and country level and the research has been focused on the process of testing procedures with Cambodian migrant workers who seeks employment in destination countries like Thailand, Malaysia, and Republic of Korea and so on in order to be friendly tested at testing center before departure to work abroad and while the staying in destination countries required annually test and perspective of receiving country while Vietnamese migrant sex workers in Cambodia.