Central Programmes
The Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL) is a non-governmental, non-profit, and non-political organization working on organizing and supporting Cambodian working people through legal aid and other appropriate means to demand transparent and accountable governance for labor and human rights.
CENTRAL achieves this by assisting independent trade unions to expand their membership and training them on Cambodian labor law. CENTRAL also provides legal aid, monitoring, and legal advocacy to better protect at-risk workers and trade union leaders in cases of dismissal, suspension, and other types of union discrimination. Over the past decade, CENTRAL staff have represented thousands of union leaders dismissed from work, more than 100 union leaders criminalized for their union activities, and 250 victims of fraud and human trafficking.
Organizing Unit
Organizing Unit is tasked with training independent labor activists, union leaders, and Cambodian working people in Cambodian labor law and the fundamental rights they are legally entitled to. Their overall strategic goal is to contribute to stronger
Protection Unit
Despite the development and growth of the labor sector in Cambodia, it is still characterized by low wages for workers compared to other countries in the region. The $204 minimum wage demonstrates the chronic problem of unparalleled minimum wages and further
Anti-Human Trafficking and Migration
There are no less than 3 million Cambodian migrant workers - documented and undocumented - currently working abroad in Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan and other countries. The majority of Cambodian migrant workers work in 3D (“Difficult, Dirty, and Dangerous”) jobs
Media ICT Unit
Unit Objective: The objective of this unit is to increase acknowledgement of labor, migration and human rights issues and the need for reform locally and internationally. Capacity development on digital security training provided to cross-cutting workers and network on digital security