“All our field observations show that people’s livelihoods are profoundly affected for many years after they are evicted. So why continue along this path?”Read the full article
“During Covid, the government provided support for the formal sector, but the informal sector had nothing: construction, brick kilns, nothing. This is inhumane.”Read the full article
“When there’s international pressure, the government becomes more respectful of workers’ rights, and also the discrimination against trade unions decreases. But only when there is international pressure.”Read the full article
While Cambodians fear the economic impact of Chinese migrant labourers, foreign workers risk exploitation in a country where they have few resources, no union representation and little knowledge of the local language.Read the full article
Rather than addressing this threat, governments across the region are either complacent, or using the state apparatus to further control information.Read the full article
On 29 July 2018, a single party, the CPP, received 100 per cent of the seats in parliament. In Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodia, there is no separation between party, state and government. Those who challenge his power – the media, NGOs, activists, critics, and trade unions – find themselves in [...]Read the full article
Everyone in Phnom Penh remembers the last general elections. The excitement, the mass rallies, the protests, the promises of change and the frenetic activity on social media. Perhaps that is why the silence now, in the run-up to 29 July elections, feels all the more [...]Read the full article
Gaining identification has been a long struggle for Cambodia’s ethnic Vietnamese population, primarily in poorer regions in the provinces.Read the full article
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s hold on power is shored up in a large way by his divvying up of the country’s natural and economic resources amongst his political allies; to make a meaningful effort to put an end to deforestation would be to destroy one of the pillars of his [...]Read the full article
“The power to tax is the power to destroy. And after 24 years and 15 days, the Cambodian government has destroyed The Cambodia Daily.”Read the full article
Some of the theories behind the frequent episodes of mass fainting in Cambodian garment factories range from poor work conditions to poverty, and even spirit possession.Read the full article
An employment information service in Cambodia brings job offers to unskilled workers through family and friends. It is a service based on trust, aimed at preventing people from falling prey to human trafficking.Read the full article
Cambodia has cracked down on the emerging “womb for rent” industry with a ministerial order, pending final legislation that could take another two years to come. This type of service could now develop in Laos and Malaysia.Read the full article
A traditional text, the Chbab Srey, teaches girls how a husband should be served from a young age. It contributes to gender discrimination and, according to its fiercest critics, stifles women’s ability to pursue their own goals and aspirations in [...]Read the full article
Thousands of men and women were forced to marry and to promise to have children as part of their marriage vows under the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime. The surviving leaders have been placed on trial, in pursuit of justiceRead the full article
“We…asked the government to pass a law that would create new boundaries that trade unions could operate within”Read the full article
Cambodian farmers struggle to survive after land grab by sugar giantsRead the full article
The Cambodian garment industry is facing fresh turmoil after six of the country’s most high-profile union leaders were charged in relation to a series of minimum-wage protestsRead the full article
“Today and tomorrow, we will demand a US$160 minimum wage for workers”Read the full article
