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| The Cambodia
Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC) |
Trafficking Monitoring and Investigation
ADHOC is one of the most important organizations addressing
the trafficking issue in the provinces located along
the Thai border. Over the past two years ADHOC has
made a conscious effort to develop the expertise of
its provincial investigation and monitoring staff to
provide assistance to victims of human trafficking.
ADHOC staff has been involved in the investigation
of several notable trafficking cases, and in a select
number of cases these investigations have led to prosecution
of perpetrators and justice for victims.
ADHOC works in collaboration with other provincial and
Phnom Penh-based NGOs and government agencies to ensure
that survivors of trafficking gain access to shelters
and/or vocational training programs, legal aid, and health
care. In the area of legal assistance ADHOC helps victims
to navigate the legal system, find legal representation,
assist them to write complaints, and follow up on their
cases. |
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| The
Cambodian Defenders Project (CDP) |
| The Center Against Trafficking
USAID,
with its partner, The Asia Foundation (TAF), is
supporting the Cambodian Defenders Project’s
(CDP’s) Center Against Trafficking to provide
high quality pro bono legal services to victims. In
its case preparation and legal arguments, CDP draws
upon all laws that address crimes that might be committed
in the process of trafficking (for example, the Labor
Law, Trafficking Law, and various international human
rights conventions to which Cambodia is party). CDP
mobilizes and coordinates with other organizations,
including the United Nations, human rights NGOs, the
Ministry of Women’s and Veteran’s Affairs,
and other like-minded institutions to monitor and
conduct advocacy regarding specific trafficking cases
with
the aim of holding government accountable for better
enforcement of existing laws.
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| Cambodian
Women's Crisis Center (CWCC) |
| The Cambodian Women's
Crisis Center (CWCC) is serving survivors of gender-based
violence on a variety of levels, from grassroots organizing
to policy level advocacy, and through direct services
such as the shelter and reintegration programs. CWCC
provides services to survivors of trafficking, domestic
violence, and rape that are sensitive and relevant to
the range of needs of those who have suffered from serious
violence and/or trauma.
Capacity Building in Counter-Trafficking Advocacy
This year, Oung Chanthol, Executive Director of CWCC
has been granted a scholarship for a Master of Law in
Human Rights program at the University of Hong Kong.
This scholarship is sponsored by the USAID through The
Asia Foundation. Ms. Oung will be writing her Master's
thesis on the issue of trafficking.
Case Management Database
To be able to effectively raise the profile of violence
against women and trafficking of women in the public
domain and to make persuasive arguments to policymakers,
NGOs must be able to provide reliable statistics
about the nature and scope of the problems. NGOs
need to
know how to collect and analyze data about the problem
to
ensure that their programmatic interventions are
targeted at the root causes and that their services
meet client
needs. The Foundation is providing financial support
to enable CWCC to develop a database that will make
it possible for the organization to store and analyze
thousands
of victim’s records. This database will be
set up to produce information that can be integrated
with
data of other NGO service providers that will document
the nature and scope of violence against women and
trafficking in Cambodia, and facilitate better coordination
of services.
This information will be a resource for wider advocacy
and public education efforts. The Foundation, through
funds from the State Department, is providing a sub-grant
for this project in the amount of $17,825 for this
project.
Vocational Training at the Siem Reap Shelter
In order to assist survivors of violence and trafficking
to transition back into the community after leaving the
CWCC shelter, The Asia Foundation will support market
research, and the development and facilitation of a new
vocational training program in Siem Reap. The training
will assist survivors to qualify for good jobs that will
enable them to become self-sufficient so that they no
longer need to be reliant on abusive husbands and, or
are less vulnerable to traffickers.
CWCC will conduct market research in Siem Reap to determine
the kinds of work opportunities that exist for women.
CWCC will develop an outreach strategy focused on local
businesses and business networks to secure quality
job placements for women. CWCC will modify its current
vocational
training programs to respond to the specific market
opportunities identified in the research. Professional
trainers will
be recruited to provide survivors of violence with
the skills and knowledge necessary to transition into
the
workforce. |
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| Digital Divide
Data |
Developing
Economic Alternatives for Survivors
The Foundation will
support
Digital Divide Data (DDD), a non-profit organization
that secures data entry contracts from local and international
businesses and NGOs and fills these contracts through
a team of Cambodian data entry operators. DDD is working
in collaboration with the CWCC on a pilot project to
train 10 survivors of trafficking and other forms of
gender-based violence, all of whom are shelter clients
of CWCC, in basic skills to become DDD operators. Skills
include recognizing English characters, performing simple
computer operations in a Windows environment, typing,
and basic conversational English. |
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The Cambodian
League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights
(LICADHO) |
Monitoring and Investigation
LICADHO is one of the largest, most sophisticated
human rights NGOs in Cambodia. Through its
network of provincial
offices and its Phnom Penh office, LICADHO has provided
human rights investigation services in thousands
of cases of human rights abuses ranging from
trafficking
to torture to politically-motivated killing. LICADHO
was the first organization to expose the problem
of the trafficking of Cambodian babies for
international
adoptions. Organizations like Amnesty International,
Human Rights Watch, and the Office of the U.N. High
Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as Phnom Penh-based
embassy staff charged with monitoring political and
human rights developments in the country, rely heavily
on LICADHO for timely, accurate information about
cases of serious human rights abuse. Funds
from USAID/the
Foundation support LICADHO’s provincial network
of 12 offices. |
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| The
International Organization for Migration (IOM) |
Prevention Activities
This project aims to reduce all forms of trafficking
of women and children in Cambodia, and strengthen the
human resources and capacity of the Ministry of Women's
and Veteran's Affairs (MWVA) towards the same end.
Specific preventive activities will include: 1.) implementation
of provincial-level multi-media information campaigns
to raise trafficking awareness and enable vulnerable
populations to take first steps towards protection;
2.) development and implementation of village-based
activities to foster community networks to combat trafficking;
and 3.) development of an MWVA counter-trafficking
database that will aid the gathering and analysis of
trafficking data to advance effective counter-trafficking
policies. MWVA staff in the national counter-trafficking
office will receive training in information and policy
analysis. Information activities and capacity building
measures will encompass the range of trafficking activities
in Cambodia including cross-border trafficking and
migration, and sending/receiving/transit for both the
domestic and international market. |
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