Children work at a school construction site in Prey Veng province in 2007. (Photo by: Sovan Philong)By Vong Sokheng and James O'toole
The Phnom Penh Post
Thousands of Cambodian children remain trapped in some of the world's most dangerous forms of child labour, according to reports released by the US government.
A pair of studies by the US Department of Labour's Bureau of International Labour Affairs (ILAB) cited the Kingdom as one of dozens of countries in which child labour is prevalent. These reports mined data from US government agencies, civil society organisations and other sources in order to assess labour conditions across the developing world.
In a report titled "2008 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labour", ILAB used data collected in 2003 and 2004 to estimate that 49 percent of Cambodians between the ages of 10 and 14, or around 900,000, were employed as child labourers of some kind.
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