Cambodia's Position: Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers

Committee: General Assembly

Topic: Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers

Country: Kingdom of Cambodia

Delegate: Uk Dararath

The migration has become easier in this globalized world. Each year, millions of workers seek for jobs in another country. About USD 601 billion in terms of remittance has been generated from migrant workers, and most of this amount goes to developing countries. While the migration is beneficial for workers and employees, it, the same time, has posed many challenges to international security and migrant workers. These migrant workers’ rights are not well-protected. Recognizing the mistreatment of migrant workers, Cambodia stays firmly to promote and protect the rights of migrant workers.

Between 350,000 and 700,000 Cambodian workers seeks for jobs abroad. Right violation cases to Cambodian migrant workers have been recorded. To respond to this, Cambodia has been working seriously to protect and promote the rights of migrant workers, not only Cambodian migrant workers working abroad but also migrant workers working in Cambodia. Domestically, Cambodia has been working and implementing Policy on Labour Migration for Cambodia 2015- 2018 whose aims are to strengthen governance of labour migration, protection and empowerment of men and women migrant workers and harnessing labour migration for development. Various institutions are also working on the migrantation issue and some of which include within the Labour Migration Policy for Cambodia, the National Employment Policy, the National Strategic Development Plan, and the Rectangular Strategy Phase III, the Department of Employment and Manpower, Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training. Globally, Cambodia has been working collaboratively with other states bilaterally and multilaterally and with regional and international institutions to make ensure the safety and rights of migrant workers. Cambodia has signed the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers in 2007.

Cambodia would like to propose a number of recommendation in regards to the mechanism to promote and protect the rights of migrant workers.

• The establishment of regional cooperation to promote decent, humane, productive, dignified and remunerative employment for migrant as well as capacity building by sharing of information and  data sharing on matters related to migrant workers;

• The establishment of bilateral cooperation between sending state and receiving state to work closely with each other for information sharing, monitoring protecting and rescuing;

• Providing migrant workers with accessibility and facilitation to the legal and judicial system in case they are violated in any picture.

Cambodia believes that these actions are truly important to promote and protect the rights of migrant workers and looks forwards to a fruitful discussion and outcome from this respective meeting.

Disclaimer: This position paper is written by a Cambodian student delegate solely for simulation and academic purposes . These views herein do not in any way represent the view of any Cambodian university and ministry and government. 


***This article is published here in the purpose of sharing the format/sample of the position paper for Model United Nations. I am aware that there are many rooms to improve for this paper.