• All quiet on the garment front

    All quiet on the garment front

    • Released Date: 20-Mar-2014

    Thu, 20 March 2014Shane Worrell and Mom KunthearAnalysisA hush has fallen over Cambodias garment sector. With the exception of the occasional strike, life on the factory floor has in ways returned to how it was before the mass strike that turned dead

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  • Infighting at garment union

    Infighting at garment union

    • Released Date: 20-Mar-2014

    Thu, 20 March 2014Sean Teehan and Mom KunthearTwo founding members of Cambodias largest independent garment worker union say they were forced out of their jobs for investigating corruption.Members of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democra

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  • Bail request for Pov as union seeks property

    Bail request for Pov as union seeks property

    • Released Date: 20-Mar-2014

    Thu, 20 March 2014Chhay ChannydaA union leader among 21 workers and activists arrested in January demonstrations will appear in the Court of Appeal to argue for bail next week, despite the same court denying his request last month.Vorn Pov, president

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  • Workers Demand Bonus Increase, Labor Laws

    Workers Demand Bonus Increase, Labor Laws

    • Released Date: 18-Mar-2014

    BY AUN PHEAP | MARCH 18, 2014About 7,000 workers protested in front of the Wing Star Shoes Co. Ltd. factory in Kompong Speu province on Monday, demanding that the company raise their bonuses by $5 and properly enforce a number of labor laws, a union

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  • ILO Names Factories With Poor Conditions

    ILO Names Factories With Poor Conditions

    • Released Date: 18-Mar-2014

    BY COLIN MEYN | MARCH 18, 2014Garment factories that fail to meet basic standards for working conditions are once again being publicly named by the International Labor Organization (ILO) following the launch Monday of the Transparency Database by the

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  • Government Defended Protest Ban in Talks With European Union

    Government Defended Protest Ban in Talks With European Union

    • Released Date: 17-Mar-2014

    BY PHORN BOPHA | MARCH 17, 2014Cambodia blamed its suspension of the constitutional right to freedom of assembly on an unruly political opposition during bilateral talks with the European Union in Brussels last week, and claimed that the restrictions

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  • Court Probe of Veng Sreng Street Slaughter Ends

    Court Probe of Veng Sreng Street Slaughter Ends

    • Released Date: 17-Mar-2014

    BY MECH DARA | MARCH 17, 2014The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has finished an investigation into the shooting deaths of five protesting garment factory workers, and the wounding of more than 40 others, during a military police operation against stone-t

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  • Union Representatives File Complaint Against Leaders Over Pilfering

    Union Representatives File Complaint Against Leaders Over Pilfering

    • Released Date: 17-Mar-2014

    BY MECH DARA | MARCH 17, 2014Two union organizers have filed a complaint with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court claiming that the senior leaders of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (CCAWDU) have embezzled money that was meant

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  • EU Concerned, But No Threats to Cut Cambodia Aid, Trade

    EU Concerned, But No Threats to Cut Cambodia Aid, Trade

    • Released Date: 15-Mar-2014

    BY SIMON MARKS | MARCH 15, 2014BRUSSELS – The European Union has called on Cambodia to release 21 jailed activists and protesters and told the government during high level talks held here this week that a failure to reform the judiciary and electoral

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  • Nationwide Garment Factory Strike Fizzles After First Day

    Nationwide Garment Factory Strike Fizzles After First Day

    • Released Date: 14-Mar-2014

    BY MECH DARA | MARCH 14, 2014What was initially planned as a nationwide garment factory strike involving hundreds of thousands of workers has effectively ended after its first day, with only a few factories reporting work stoppages, according to the

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  • New Report Says Garment Sector Fails to Meet UN Standards

    New Report Says Garment Sector Fails to Meet UN Standards

    • Released Date: 14-Mar-2014

    BY LAUREN CROTHERS | MARCH 14, 2014Cambodian garment manufacturers and the association that governs them are failing to meet the standards set by the U.N.s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as evidenced by lethal violence against worke

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  • Businesses need help fighting corruption: CAMFEBA

    Businesses need help fighting corruption: CAMFEBA

    • Released Date: 13-Mar-2014

    Thu, 13 March 2014Daniel de CarteretCorruption is weighing on businesses, and the avenues to address it are limited, according to Cambodias leading employer association.At a joint conference with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Ca

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