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Boom built on ‘slavery’

2 December 2016
The Phnom Penh Post
Bricks and tiles / Child labor / Child labor / Family, children and youth / Family, children and youth policy and administration / Handicrafts / Handicrafts industry policy and regulation / Illegal labor / Industries / Industry policy and administration / Labor / Manufacturing / Maternal and child health / Mineral processing and products / Priority health concerns / Public health
Bricks and tiles / Cambodia / Child labor / Family children and youth / Family children and youth policy and administration / Handicrafts / Handicrafts industry policy and regulation / Illegal labor / Industries / Industry policy and administration / Labor / Manufacturing / Maternal and child health / Mineral processing and products

The use of debt bondage to trap workers in “modern day slavery” is widespread in many of Cambodia’s brick-making factories, indicates research by rights group Licadho, whose findings suggest the Kingdom’s recent building boom is built on the illegal practice. In a report released on ...

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