Perhaps it's not looking in the right places. If it sends a few people to the Riverside, I'm sure it would identify a few more cases to get involved in:
Officials have been unable to identify any cases of child labour in inspections of handicraft businesses, brick factories and sugarcane plantations, the Labour Minister said yesterday.
The rights group Licadho last week warned that children are still being exploited in handicraft and brick factories across the country, despite efforts to put an end to child labour.
However Ith Samheng said his ministry had been unable to verify this and called on members of the public, parents and relevant organisations to report cases of child labour to the authorities if and when they saw them.
Mr Samheng was speaking to a crowd of more than 100 children and teachers at a celebration for the World Day Against Child Labour at the ministry.
He said the ministry’s inspection team investigated more than 379 handicraft and brick factories that employ 5,373 workers, but found no cases of child labour. The team also investigated the sugarcane industry and found the same.
“I want to call on parents, guardians, the public and relevant organisations to file complaints to labour officials if they come across a case of child labour,” Mr Samheng said. “We have the legal mechanism to solve the problem.”
Veng Heang, director of the child labour department at the Labour Ministry, said the ministry helped about 28,500 children escape child labour between 2012 until 2016, providing them with education and training skill.
“Child labour reduced from 16.5 percent in 1999 to 8.7 percent in 2016,” he said, adding that the reports of child labour in the informal economy had also decreased continuously, from 76 cases in 2013, to 34 cases in 2014, 13 cases in 2015, four cases in 2016 and only one case this year so far.
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39520/ ... ld-labour/
Government claims progress in eliminating child labour
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