The ILO’s Better Factories Cambodia program monitors working conditions in Cambodian garment factories and assesses conditions relative to ILO Core Labour Standards and Cambodian labour law. See http://betterfactories.org/. The rise of shareholder activism or ethically focused investment funds are also...
Cambodia, 74. Vietnam, 112. Korea.★ The Guardian (UK), 2021-5-16 (theguardian.com/world/2021/may/16/lockdowns-and-panic-buying-in-taiwan-as-covid-cases-rise): ... the district of Wanhua, where a cluster of at least 100 CovID-19 cases so far has centred on hosted bars and ...
Cambodia chapter was authored by associates Mealtey Oeurn, Saryda Ou, Chanvisal Lok; and Jay Cohen, partner and director of the firm’s operations in Cambodia. Tilleke & Gibbins also contributed the Vietnam and Thailand chapters to Labor and Employment Disputes 2024. The full Cambodia chapter ...
I no longer recognized winter: no snow on the ground, temperatures never below freezing, actually swimming in the ocean on January 1. My brother-in-law and sister, who had moved to the Hollywood hills with their three children, confused and perplexed me: They really celebrated Christmas. He...
In 2015, more than 2000 workers, mostly from Myanmar and Cambodia, were found to be held captive on the Indonesian island of Benjina and forced to work under slave-like conditions on Thai fishing boats [9]. In May of that year, the EU issued a yellow card to the Thai fishing industry...
Public disclosure, reputation sensitivity, and labor law compliance: Evidence from Better Factories Cambodia. Review of Development Economics 16(4): 594-607.Ang, D., Brown, D., Dehejia, R., & Robertson, R. 2012. Public disclosure, reputation sensitivity, and labor law compliance: Evidence ...
So huge is the demand for prostitutes that slavery agents are forced to comb Thailand’s impoverished neighbors of Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos for girls to buy. Khunying Kanitha of the Bangkok Emergency Home said she recently intervened in a case in which a Thai teen-age girl traveling by bus...