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Child labor and debt bondage persist in Cambodian brick industry

Child labor and debt bondage remain widespread in Cambodia’s brick kilns despite an alleged successful crackdown by the government, a Thomson Reuters Foundation exposé revealed on Thursday. Following the purported state crackdown, a labor ministry official last week declared all of the country’s 486 kilns free of child workers—defined in Cambodia as those aged under 15—and free of debt bondage. But a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation

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