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By
: Jon Bugge.
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There was a focus on rubber
plantations - this one is in Kompong Cham
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Thirty research
practitioners attended the Workshop on Child Labor
in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, from Cambodia,
Laos, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mongolia, Thailand,
and Viet Nam. The event was held at the Hotel Juliana,
Phnom Penh, on 3rd to 7th June 2002.
This meeting was held by The Regional Working Group
on Child Labor, which focused on how to improve
research into child labor.
It is believed that one out of eight children, between
the ages of 5 to 14, in the world are involved in
child labor. Those children are suffering from physical
and mental enslavement. These situations violate
children's rights and continue the cycle of poverty:
which in turn stunts economic and social development.
"In Cambodia, most children work in agriculture,
forestry and fishery. A few of them work in businesses,
factories, and the construction and service industries.
There are 55 per cent of children in the age of
5 to 17 who never go to school." said H.E.
Ith Samheng, Minister, MoSALVY, on his opening address.
He added that the ministry had announced a new push
to stop child labor whilst also improving family
incomes. Poor families have no choice but to work
their children.
The government of the United States of America donated
one million dollars for skills training and as direct
aid for the families. With this financial assistance
the idea is that this will release them from the
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necessity of working
their children. The end result will be providing the opportunity
for these children to receive an education. The donation
focused on three factors: fisheries, rubber plantations,
and salt farms.
With aims of joining the WTO, within the near future,
efforts are being made to improve the social and economic
conditions for not only children, but also the general
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