Cambodia: EU Partially Suspends Trade Preferences

Expand Women in the sewing division of a factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. © 2014 Samer Muscati/Human Rights Watch (Bangkok) – The European Commission on February 12, 2020, announced the partial suspension of Cambodia’s preferential trade preferences with the European Union after the government failed to address serious human rights concerns, Human Rights Watch said today. Prime Minister Hun Sen should take urgent measures to improve the dismal human rights and labor rights situation in Cambodia that led to the commission’s decision, including ending the ban on the opposition Cambodia National…

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