Cambodia standing up for migrant fishermen too late: experts
The government’s Cambodian Human Rights Committee on August 9 sent a request to its counterpart in Thailand to help push the Thai government to implement safety measures to protect Cambodian fishermen working in Thailand in often slave-like conditions, a request advocates said yesterday should have been made years ago. Phil Roberston, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, said the systematic abuses suffered by Cambodian men and boys on Thai fishing boats have been going on for “literally decades”. “This is yet another example of the Cambodian government’s shameful dereliction of duty to protect Cambodian migrants overseas,” he said in an email.
