Press Release
For Immediate Release
February 14, 2013
Monitoring in the Dark: An evaluation of the International Labour Organization's Better Factories Cambodia monitoring and reporting program
On February 18, 2013, the Stanford International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic in conjunction with the Worker Rights Consortium will release a report entitled "Monitoring in the Dark: An Evaluation of the International Labour Organization's Better Factories Cambodia Monitoring and Reporting Program." The report details how, despite its reputation as a 'model' factory monitoring program, the ILO-Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program has failed to effectively address serious labor rights problems in the country's garment industry.
The report proposes ten separate recommendations. The overarching recommendation, however, is that BFC must operate with far greater transparency and engage more with garment workers than it currently does. With greater transparency and responsiveness in BFC's monitoring and reporting processes, factory owners and the brands that buy their products will be further incentivized to improve working conditions for garment workers in Cambodia. The program will also be better equipped to address the labor rights violations that Cambodian garment workers confront everyday.
The event will take place at the Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center in Phnom Penh from 9:15 to 11:00 a.m.
Start time: 9:15 am
End time: 11:00 am
Venue: Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center
RUPP-CJCC, Russian Federation Blvd, Tuol Kork, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
For more information contact:
For Immediate Release
February 14, 2013
Monitoring in the Dark: An evaluation of the International Labour Organization's Better Factories Cambodia monitoring and reporting program
On February 18, 2013, the Stanford International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic in conjunction with the Worker Rights Consortium will release a report entitled "Monitoring in the Dark: An Evaluation of the International Labour Organization's Better Factories Cambodia Monitoring and Reporting Program." The report details how, despite its reputation as a 'model' factory monitoring program, the ILO-Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program has failed to effectively address serious labor rights problems in the country's garment industry.
The report proposes ten separate recommendations. The overarching recommendation, however, is that BFC must operate with far greater transparency and engage more with garment workers than it currently does. With greater transparency and responsiveness in BFC's monitoring and reporting processes, factory owners and the brands that buy their products will be further incentivized to improve working conditions for garment workers in Cambodia. The program will also be better equipped to address the labor rights violations that Cambodian garment workers confront everyday.
The event will take place at the Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center in Phnom Penh from 9:15 to 11:00 a.m.
Start time: 9:15 am
End time: 11:00 am
Venue: Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center
RUPP-CJCC, Russian Federation Blvd, Tuol Kork, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
For more information contact:
Stephan Sonnenberg
Clinical Lecturer, International Human Rights & Conflict Resolution Clinic
Stanford Law School
Email: ssonnenberg@law.stanford.edu
tel:
+1.650.725.1797 fax: +1.650.723.4426
skype: stephan_sonnenberg
Sarom EM
Media Assistant
Community Legal Education Center (CLEC)
Tel: (+855) 66 777 042
(+855) 66 777 042
E-mail: sarom@clec.org.kh
Website: www.clec.org.kh
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