On October 10, 2024, CLC leader and the representatives of the Australian Embassy, Cambodia, and ILO in Cambodia meet with the team of the Migrant Workers Resource Center in Prey Veng province and discuss with them to gain a deep understanding of the work of MRC doing.
Then, the relevant stakeholders meet and interact with migrants, returnees, members of their families, and local authorities to understand the intersection between migration, human trafficking, forced labour, and other dynamics within migration from Cambodia to Thailand and Malaysia and how MRC addresses these issues at the local level.
The purpose of the visit:
1) Provided a good opportunity for representatives of the Australian Embassy to meet women and men beneficiaries directly, observe their community environment, hear their migration stories, and observe and ask how they have engaged with or benefited from TRIANGLE supports and programming.
2) Highlighted representative of the Australian Embassy’s appreciation for the services of MRC efforts on support service provision to meet migrant workers’ needs on dependable information, labour migration advice, and legal aid.
3) This visit also demonstrated a range of migrant rights interventions made by trade unions, to support migrant workers leaving from and returning to Prey Veng province safely.
This visit marked the significant efforts of the MRC implemented by Cambodia Labour Confederation (CLC).
The Cambodian Labor Union was established on April 9, 2006 and registered at No KB / VK on December 31, 2008 at the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training, a democratic and independent federation. Currently, CLC has 124023 members from 10 member federations, associations and unions ...