Ven Sophany, 9, left, tries to sell bottled water to a foreign tourist in front of the Royal Palace in the capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007. Some 1.5 million children aged 7 to 17 years old are being put to work in Cambodia, the World Bank said Wednesday, calling on the government to curb the practice. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Hmm ... kids should be in school
ReplyDeleteat that age to learn some good
moral and academic education.
Selling an dealing at that age
can do more harm then good. It
can lead to greed and cheating
to make more money, and ultimately
criminals if they don't have a
minimum amount of good moral
education to back them up.
it doesn't take much more dramatic picture than this to make my tears start rolling. This child could be yours or mine.
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Cambodia must comply to The International Child Labor Laws and do something.
ReplyDeleteOrdinary Khmers
KMENG WAT KNONG SROK
ReplyDeleteTO ALL ANTI-CAMBODIA INCLUDING KI-MEDIA AND SUPPORTERS
CHILD ABUSE, CHILD LABOR, CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: THESE PROBLEMS ARE LINKED TO THE PROBLEM OF MODERN SOCIETIES EVERYWHERE. THEY ARE A VERY COMPLEX ONE . IT HAPPENED NOT JUST ONLY IN CAMBODIA... YOU BETTER LOOKS AROUND YOU IN THE STATES, FRANCE, CANADA OR AUSTRALIA AND EVERYWHERE YOU SEE THIS ISSUE PUBLISHED IN THE NEWS.
DO NOT THINK THAT CAMBODIA IS A HELL FOR EVERYTHING.. TRY TO BE SMART AND FAIR TO YOURSELF AND BE BETTER INSTRUCTED AND LEARNED MORE ABOUT THE MORALITY IN OUR JUDGMENT BEFORE WE CONDENM THIS... OR THIS... OR MR.X.... OR
YUON... OR MAYBE ONE DAY YOU ALSO
CONDENM YOUR PARENTS???? BECAUSE THEY ARE BORN KHMER!!!!
KHMENG WAT KNONG SROK
Well, it is illegal in the Sates and I am sure in Europe too to employ underage workers. However, I understand where Khmeng Wat Knong Srok is coming from.
ReplyDeleteEliminating poverty is easier said than done. Cambodia can not comply with international standard because corrupt system creates poverty, which leads to selfishness (a way to survive). For all we know, the boy in this picture is trying to earn a couple of dollars to support his family.
If we are to eliminate this kind of child labor, we should provide alternatives...not just more schools, but better wages and living condition for his family. To do this, corruption must end at the highest level. Corruption leads to a massive uneven distribution of wealth. It cost Cambodia approximately $200 to $300 million each year.
This child's parent either doesn't have a job, or have a job that barely pays enough to feed the family. Poverty forces children to grow much quicker, because it is the only way to survive. In an NBC special about child trafficking in Cambodia, a young girl was asked why she became a prostitute. She answered that it was the only way to support her little siblings and elderly parent. She has not been given an alternative, because there is no alternative, but poverty.
However, there is an inkling of hope. Oil. Cambodia sits on a gold mine. If money from oil revenue is not used to create more jobs (ex. fund job driven-technology and hired or trained local cambodians to build better infrastructure such as roads, buildings, canls, etc.) and raise the standard of living in Cambodia, then the world will see the true corruption within the system. Many outsiders doubt whether the current government can share the wealth with it's own citizen. I hope and pray to God that they will be proven wrong, and show that Cambodia is capable of progessive thinking.
Don't get on the wrong track,
ReplyDeletepeople, or you will not solved the
problem.
Corruption and crime is natural in
a poor country or area where
people are not making enough from
their occupation.
Hence, the solution should be
obvious: reduce the jobless until
companies can't find people to work
for them, and force them to pay
people better and better salary.
As a result, when people have good
salary, many of them will not seek
corruption as a mean to put food
on their table. Is that rocket
science?
Furthermore, when people have good
salary, many problems that we have
seen will dissapeared naturally. We
need not to fight it. Most people
will send their kid to school
instead of asking them to work.
Women will be proud to work instead
of selling their bodies...
Thus, I reiterate jobs, jobs, and
jobs, all sorts of jobs: organic
farming, food processing, textile,
car washing, import/export,...,
and what have you; nothing is small
or big; everything is needed.
they 4:08am it sounds you are on the wrong track. you are defending a government that you don't much about. did you know that corruption is the driving force of poverty? did you know good companies won't come to cambodia to do business? did you corruption added cost to do business and therefore have to pay lower wages ? cambodian children is not at fault to do whatever to feed their stomach but the incompetent government is.
ReplyDeleterefering to your analogy of driving the wage higher to work for any amount money until no one available; it is one so stupid to even mention it. with this incompetent government it will take for ever and still no jobs for everybody. there are 300,000 new workforce every year but only 30,000 jobs avail; tell me how you would drive the wage up stupid?
It is bulshit to claim that oil and bauxite mining will help the poor, especially to reduce child labour in Cambodia. Revnue fro oil and all kinds of mining will only go to the pocket of the CPP officials.
ReplyDeleteYou just look at the forest which is the valuable resource of millions of dollar. Now the forest has gone, and who benefit from the forest? Ordinary Cambodians or the CPP officials? How about gem mining in Pailin ? Did this gem help the poor in Cambodia? Don't mislead the Cambodians about the oil or bauxite in Mondolkiri!
Stop bugging me, you fool8:35!
ReplyDeleteHow many times do I have to tell
you that Sam Rainsy is a bullshit
artist, huh?
30,000 jobs my arse. That is Sam
Rainsy stupid fuzzi mathematics
I would believe it if we are making
supercomputer chips instead of
underwear or shoes.
Look; math doesn't lied; do it;
take it to your professor or
whatever, okay? So here we go:
Last couple years our GDP growth
is about 1 billion USD. I am sure
KI Media got the world bank's
article somewhere. Now, tell me,
how the 30,000 shoes makers
produced the 1 billion USD.
Use your brain instead of your
arse, will ya?
Moreover, if we have 300,000 new
force and only 30,000 geting jobs.
This mean we produced 270,000
jobless every year. Which in turn,
meant we produced 8 millions
jobless in last 30 years. That is
not possible because we only got
about 10 millions work forces.
What you are telling me is there
are only 2 out of 10 person is
currently working. Is that what
you really think?
You are traped under the Sam
Rainsy's spell, Fool, better snap
out of it.
12:35 PM. I totally disagree with you, but I'm not going to share with you or the public or people like you. Instead of the guy SRP is a fool you are the one.
ReplyDeleteYou are too extreme biased & violent person that's why you cannot figure out.
Good luck my friend. Your blank slate only multiply more anguish upon your self.
I understand your sentiments that oil could be just another "bullshit" factor. In my statement, I simply "hope" that the Cambodian government can prove the world wrong. However, like you, I feel that it is merely hope. But we will see.
ReplyDeletehey dude 12:35 PM, your number is fucked-up. i told you, you are a fool. you can't do your math. 30 years ago, we were in pol pol and you probably were in the liquid form.
ReplyDeletethe number of 300,000 work force is based on today population 13.5 millions. not 30 years ago fool minipulator! do your math again.
That is called linear estimate,
ReplyDeleteDummy. It is still a lot better
than guessing or going with a
bullshit artist (Sam Rainsy).
I don't have much time for a math
lessons here, but If you want to
be conservative, just divide the
result by 2 to compensate for the
countinous growth in population
over a period of 30 years, and
the bullshit artist's (Sam Rainsy)
figure will still be unrealistic.
Alternatively, take it to your
local professor. I don't need you
to go by my words, I preferred you
do your own figure and not allowed
anyone to take you for a ride.
And if you still not convince, you
can sample the public yourself. I
mean are people on the street
begging each other for money or
they are working or having
something to do...
hey fool, are you still in your dream?
ReplyDeleteIdiot, what am I dreaming about?
ReplyDeleteJust tell me then, How much GDP
is produced by the 30,000 jobs
in recent calendar year 2005 and
2006, if you insisted on being
correct.
You can't fool people by avoiding
a simple question, comprendre?