Barriers to Representation: Freedom of Association in Cambodia
This report functions as a component of an ongoing project between CENTRAL, CATU, and C.CAWDU to document the extent to which Freedom... Read More
Evidence of workers in distress: Declining income, rising living costs, and spiralling debt post-covid
06 September 2023 As the Cambodian economy has been recovering from the Covid-19 crisis, its effects on the livelihoods of Cambodian garment... Read More
Stitched under strain: long-term wage loss across the Cambodian garment industry
Executive Summary In early 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic threw the global fashion industry into turmoil, as supply chain disruptions, store closures and... Read More
Challenges of Cambodian Migrant Workers During the Covid-19 Outbreak
Phnom Penh, September 16, 2021 – Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL) has released a report titled “Challenges of... Read More
On 22 February 2021, Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL) issued a report on ‘Implementation of Government Allowances in... Read More
Worked to Debt: Over-Indebtedness in Cambodia’s Garment Sector
June 30, 2020 – Tens of thousands of garment workers in Cambodia will struggle to repay microfinance debts during work stoppages... Read More
“Labor and Human Rights in Cambodia” Statement of Tola Moeun Executive Director, Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL)
September 09, 2019 Thank you very much to Congressmen James McGovern and Christopher Smith for providing me the opportunity to testify... Read More
Report: Tailored Wages 2019, the state of pay in the global garment industry
Since the beginning of this century, global brands sourcing clothing from low wage countries around the world have acknowledged on paper that... Read More
Report: Corporate Commitments to Living Wages in the Garment Industry
Over the last decade, leading global corporations in the garment industry have begun to make commitments to deliver living wages to the... Read More
Overworked & exposed, Short term contracts and gender issues in the Myanmar and Cambodian garment industries
This report is a collaboration between Future in Our Hands (Framtiden i varehender), Norway, The Center for Alliance of Labor and Human... Read More
Rising Production Targets Undermining Minimum Wage Increases
The Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL) has released a report examining the wages, production targets and occupational health... Read More
Gender Based Violence in the Asian H&M and Gap Garment Supply Chains: Reports to the International Labor Organization
Tola Moeun, Executive Director of CENTRAL, a Cambodian labour organization described the violence documented in the report as a daily reality
Gender Based Violence in the Walmart Garment Supply Chain
Tola Meun, Executive Director of CENTRAL says, “Gender based violence is a daily reality for women garment workers driven to meet unrealistic production targets in Walmart supply chains. Most of these cases are not reported due to fear of retaliation in the workplace.”
Bestseller – a good deal for all?
The aim of the current research was to gain insight into the working conditions and wage levels of two suppliers to the Danish company Bestseller A/S (from now «Bestseller») – one in Cambodia and one in India.
The report aims to provide essential insights into Bestseller as a multinational; its turnover, which
producer countries it sources from, its main markets, as well as some of the promises the Danish company
has made regarding supply chain management.
Research into some of H&M’s Platinum and Gold Suppliers in Cambodia
As with many other garment producing countries exporting to the European and American market, Cambodia has been in the spotlight because of its poor working conditions and low wages for apparel workers. The country’s garment sector engages some 750 000 workers in more than 1000 factories.
Workers in H&M Factories Suffer Human Rights and Labor Abuses, New Report Details
In advance of next month’s International Labor Organization (ILO) conference in Geneva, an international consortium of human and labor rights organizations have released a groundbreaking new report detailing workplace abuses at H&M supplier factories.
Cambodian beer promotion workers struggle for better conditions at Cambrew Ltd.
There are approximately 6000 beer promotion workers in Cambodia. These women are employed by various breweries to promote and sell a particular brand of beer at bars and restaurants. Unlike garment workers in Cambodia, there is no national minimum wage for beer promotion workers;