ABC Radio Australia
December 7, 2011
A Cambodian prison has ended a program that saw inmates making shoes for export.
Last week on Asia Pacific, we ran a story partly about the involvement of major US brands in prison labour but also about shoe manufacturing at Sihanoukville provincial prison. Despite the prison chief confirming to local media that shoes were being exported to Japan, the Government spokesman told Radio Australia the prison program was for training and not for profit. Now rights groups say the shoe factory inside the prison has suddenly been closed.
Presenter: Liam Cochrane
Speakers: Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia divisionDecember 7, 2011
A Cambodian prison has ended a program that saw inmates making shoes for export.
Last week on Asia Pacific, we ran a story partly about the involvement of major US brands in prison labour but also about shoe manufacturing at Sihanoukville provincial prison. Despite the prison chief confirming to local media that shoes were being exported to Japan, the Government spokesman told Radio Australia the prison program was for training and not for profit. Now rights groups say the shoe factory inside the prison has suddenly been closed.
Presenter: Liam Cochrane
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