Cambodia’s fledgling domestic worker export industry continues to come under
scrutiny amid allegations that women have been forcibly detained in privately
run training centres.
Local media in this Southeast Asian country reported that one woman died
this month at a labour recruitment firm in Phnom Penh, while another trainee
broke her legs attempting to escape. The firm has denied any wrongdoing in
the woman’s death. But the controversy is a sign that the government’s
belated efforts to regulate the rapidly expanding industry have fallen short.
"It’s so sad that the problems are still happening," Moeun Tola, the head of
the labour programme at the advocacy group Community Legal Education
Centre, told IPS.
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