Cambodian women have returned with stories of physical or sexual abuse at the hands of their employers.
After more than a year of preparations, organizers say they are prepared to create a new Cambodia Town, this one in Lowell, Mass.
At last count, nearly 400,000 hectares of crops had been damaged.
Cambodia has banned the recruitment and export of laborers to Malaysia for domestic work, pending an investigation into abusive practice
Charges included incitement, for land protests, and the destruction of property related to protests, demonstrations and disputes.
About 400 residents gathered at the New Paradise Restaurant on Oct. 28, raising nearly $16,000 in donations.
At a gathering in Washington Sunday, the embassy collected around $6,500 from some 200 Cambodian-Americans.
US federal employees have begun a fundraising campaign for 2011, in a drive to collect money for local and international organizations.
Rights group claims that the acid attack throughout the country can reach to 40 cases in each year.
Human Rights Watch said in a recent report as many as 50,000 women and girls have migrated for work in Malaysia.
Filmmaker Thet Sambath said his work has contributed a small part to the Khmer Rouge history.
Thet Sambath and co-producer Rob Lemkin answered questions from nearly 50 people in the audience after the film.
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