Migrant Labor: Cambodia's Daughters to Malaysia - Part 3

Pich Samnang and Brian Calvert, VOA Khmer
Friday, 31 December 2010

Sal, who lost her parents and went to Malaysia to support her uncle and siblings, was raped by her employer there. She tells of electric shocks and being drugged and abused for a year before she returned to Prey Veng province in southeastern Cambodia. Her aunt says she is ruined for life.

Migrant Labor: Cambodia's Daughters to Malaysia - Part 2

Pich Samnang and Brian Calvert, VOA Khmer
Friday, 31 December 2010

Sokhea, who is 17 and still in high school, convinced her illiterate mother to sign the paperwork that would fake her age and allow her to go to Malaysia. She got as far as the Phnom Penh recruiting center before prison-like conditions and the warnings of another village girl convinced her to flee and return home to Preah Vihear province in northern Cambodia.

Migrant Labor: Cambodia's Daughters to Malaysia - Part 1

Pich Samnang and Brian Calvert, VOA Khmer
Friday, 31 December 2010

Champei begged her mother to let her go, but when she arrived in Malaysia, she was mistreated from the beginning. She ate poorly, had boiling water poured on her hands and wound up in a psychiatric hospital before she returned to Cambodia. She is now traumatized, her parents devastated.

Rural Daughters Risk Abuse to Earn Money in Malaysia

Pich Samnang, VOA Khmer
Saturday, 18 December 2010 

Sokhea is making a fire to cook rice.

Every day after school, Puoet Sokhea comes home to a ramshackle hut in Rovieng district, Preah Vihear province, and begins her daily chores. She stokes the fire, washes pots and pans, sets the rice to boil. She has nine brothers and sisters, her parents and an aging grandmother—and few opportunities to help support them.

Trafficking Task Forces Debated

Pich Samnang, VOA Khmer
Tuesday, 05 February 2008

While trafficking in persons, especially women and children, remains a big challenge facing Cambodia today, authorities and other agencies are debating whether the addition of a new task force to combat the crime is working.

The National Task Force was created last year, together with a senior task force led by the Ministry of Interior, in a bid to prevent the human trafficking, protect the victims and prosecute traffickers.

Ten Borano, deputy director of the Interior Ministry’s Anti-Trafficking Department, told a training seminar in Phnom Penh recently that the two task forces are involved from top national officials to local authorities.