We have received over 40 complaints [in 2011] regarding sexual, physical and mental abuse, illegal confinement, and dead and missing maids," said Moeun Tola, head of the Community Legal Education Center's labor program, a rights groups in Cambodia. "It's much higher than the past year," he said.
Rights groups say the increase in abuse is the result of Cambodia's failure to regulate its expanding migrant recruitment sector and Malaysia's unwillingness to protect the rights of migrant maids.
According to a report on the plight of Cambodian migrant maids, released by New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) in November, this lack of regulations had lead to "abuse at every step of the migration cycle for Cambodian workers."
HRW said it is not uncommon for maids to end up as modern day slaves, as "in some cases, these [abuses] combine to create situations that amount to forced labor, trafficking, or debt bondage.
We have received over 40 complaints [in 2011] regarding sexual, physical and mental abuse, illegal confinement, and dead and missing maids," said Moeun Tola, head of the Community Legal Education Center's labor program, a rights groups in Cambodia. "It's much higher than the past year," he said.
Rights groups say the increase in abuse is the result of Cambodia's failure to regulate its expanding migrant recruitment sector and Malaysia's unwillingness to protect the rights of migrant maids.
According to a report on the plight of Cambodian migrant maids, released by New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) in November, this lack of regulations had lead to "abuse at every step of the migration cycle for Cambodian workers."
HRW said it is not uncommon for maids to end up as modern day slaves, as "in some cases, these [abuses] combine to create situations that amount to forced labor, trafficking, or debt bondage.
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