Cambodia resources

August 2009

  1. ILO Better Factories Cambodia 22nd synthesis report: Garment factory working conditions generally remain good, despite continuing pressure due to the global economic slowdown

    The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia today releases its “22nd Synthesis Report on Working Conditions in Cambodia’s Garment Sector,” which assesses compliance with Cambodian labour law and international labour standards in garment factories.

July 2009

  1. Model Agreement for Establishment of Water Users' Association Bovel Irrigation Project Battambang

  2. Cambodia - Country Brief

June 2009

  1. Migrant workers’ remittances: Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar

    The study on migrant workers’ remittances to their families Cambodia, Lao PDR and Myanmar investigated the sending behaviour in terms of the amount sent, the frequency in sending, the intended purposes of the remittances and the actual use.

  2. By cooking and cleaning, Cambodia’s Mr Mom sweeps away poverty

    The Women's Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality (WEDGE) programme, run by the International Labour Organization (ILO), not only teaches women about business and couples about budgeting, saving and making better financial decisions, it also gets families to rethink traditional roles.

May 2009

  1. ILO Issues revised global unemployment projections; Unemployment in Asia Pacific could top 100 million people

    The number of people unemployed in 2009 could increase by between 29.4 million and 58.8 million people globally, and between 9 and 26.3 million in Asia Pacific, compared to 2007. That’s according to new projections from the ILO, the United Nations agency that deals with work and workplace issues.

  2. Review of labour migration management, policies and legal framework in Cambodia

    The review of labour migration management, policies and legal framework in Cambodia is an attempt to understand the underlying factors inhibited the promotion of orderly labour migration flow from Cambodia to Thailand.

April 2009

  1. Rectangular strategy for growth, employment, equity and efficiency phase II

    Rectangular strategy for growth, employment, equity and efficiency phase II is the "Socio Economic Policy Agenda" of the Royal Government of Cambodia of the fourth legislature of the national assembly. It was announced by the the prime minister at the office of the council of ministers, Phnom Penh on 26 September 2008. The rectangular strategy phase II maintains the earlier structure and fine-tunes and sharpens the prioritized policies of the rectangular strategy in its first phase.

  2. Speech on the occasion of ILO’s 90th anniversary

    By Ms Sachiko Yamamoto, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific and Assistant Director-General, ILO in Phnom Penh on 27 April 2009

  3. Speech on the occasion of ILO’s 90th anniversary

    By H.E. Madam Men Sam An, Deputy Prime Minister, and High-level representative of Samdech Akka Moha Sena Patei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Kingdom of Cambodia