Blood on the Roads: Cambodia's Garment Sector Faces a Grim Reality Cambodia's garment sector has long been touted as a symbol of the nation's economic growth and development, with low labor costs and a massive workforce contributing significantly to the country's exports.
However, beneath this veneer of prosperity lies a grim reality, where workers are treated as mere commodities and exposed to unimaginable risks on the roads that connect their homes to factories.
Two recent traffic accidents in Cambodia claimed the lives of at least 14 garment factory workers and injured 93 others, mostly women.