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“Labor and Human Rights in Cambodia” Statement of Tola Moeun Executive Director, Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL)

Thank you very much to Congressmen James McGovern and Christopher Smith for providing me the opportunity to testify at this hearing. In September 2009, I testified at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission’s “Human Rights and Rule of Law in Cambodia” hearing on the labor rights situation in Cambodia. Unfortunately, many of the issues on which I spoke then remain problems today, with little to no improvement. Poverty wages Low wages remain an enormous inhibitor to proper realisation of and active demand for labor rights and fundamental freedoms in Cambodia. When I testified at the Commission in 2009...