Australia called to reassess ties to Cambodian microfinance amid reports of child labour, debt bondage

The sleeve of Srey Pheak’s pink-striped T-shirt hangs loose from where her right arm used to be.

“It still hurts when the weather is cool,” she said. “It’s just too hard to play.”

The 10-year-old was working in a Cambodian brick factory in March this year when her hand slipped into a clay-slicing machine, severing it.

In full: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-11/microfinance-loans-land-loss-rights-abuses-cambodia-report/11386962

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