Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2025, Publicación: 114ª reunión CIT (2026)

Convenio sobre las peores formas de trabajo infantil, 1999 (núm. 182) - Camboya (Ratificación : 2006)

Articles 3(d) and 5 of the Convention. Hazardous work and monitoring mechanisms.Hazardous work in the garment and footwear sectors. Following its previous comments, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that it is in consultation with the social partners to prohibit the employment of young workers aged below 18 years old in the garment sector.

The Committee further notes, from the Government’s report to the United Nations Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), that as a result of the Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) programme, developed in partnership with the ILO, the number of cases of child labour in garment and footwear factories was at zero in 2022 (A/HRC/WG.6/46/KHM/1, para. 45). The Committee requests the Government to keep it informed on the results of the consultations engaged to ensure the prohibition of the employment of children under the age of 18 years in the garment sector. It also requests the Government to continue providing information on the efforts undertaken to monitor child labour in the garment and footwear sectors and on the results achieved.

Hazardous work in the sugarcane sector. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that there has not been any case of child labour detected in the sugarcane sector. The Government adds that the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MLVT) undertakes preventive measures through awareness-raising in specific prioritized sectors and industries. The Committee requests the Government to continue monitoring the situation of children in the sugarcane sector, ensuring that they are not working under hazardous conditions. In this regard, it requests the Government to continue providing information on the number of children under the age of 18 working in hazardous conditions in the sugarcane fields detected as a result of labour inspections.

Article 7(2)(a) and (b). Preventing the engagement of children in the worst forms of child labour and providing direct assistance for their removal, rehabilitation and social integration. Children engaged in hazardous work in fisheries. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that it is looking for more international partners, with the technical assistance of the ILO, to work on the prevention, removal and rehabilitation of children engaged in hazardous work in the fisheries sector. The Committee notes, however, that the Government has not provided information on the implementation of the 2016–20 National Action Plan for Gender Equality Promotion and Child Labour Elimination in the Fisheries Sector (Fisheries NAP), nor on the development of a new Fisheries NAP. The Committee therefore once again encourages the Government take effective and time-bound measures for the prevention, removal and rehabilitation of children engaged in hazardous work in the fisheries sector. It requests the Government to provide detailed information on: (i) the measures taken to this end, including through the adoption and implementation of a new Fisheries NAP; and (ii) the results achieved in terms of preventing children from engaging in hazardous work in the fisheries sector and of the number of children who were withdrawn from such work and rehabilitated and socially integrated.

Article 8. International cooperation. Trafficking. The Committee notes, from the Government’s report to the UPR, the information that the National Committee for Counter Trafficking (NCCT) engages in cooperation with relevant countries and with international organizations to combat trafficking. In particular, the Committee notes that the NCCT has been cooperating with the United Nations for Counter Trafficking in Persons to jointly implement the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Convention Against Trafficking in Persons (A/HRC/WG.6/46/KHM/1, para. 74). The Committee requests the Government to continue to provide information on the measures taken to enhance international cooperation to combat trafficking in children, particularly as regards identification, protection and assistance of child victims of trafficking.