{"id":987656230,"date":"2019-05-27T02:55:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T01:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/cambodias-long-march-towards-social-security-tuk-tuk-drivers-and-domestic-workers-could-soon-benefit-from-social-protection\/"},"modified":"2019-05-27T02:55:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T01:55:53","slug":"cambodias-long-march-towards-social-security-tuk-tuk-drivers-and-domestic-workers-could-soon-benefit-from-social-protection","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/cambodias-long-march-towards-social-security-tuk-tuk-drivers-and-domestic-workers-could-soon-benefit-from-social-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia&#8217;s long march towards &#8220;social security&#8221;: Tuk-tuk drivers and domestic workers could soon benefit from social protection."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Le Monde, May 23, 2019:  <\/strong>&#8220;Decent jobs and social cohesion&#8221;. Every tourist who has visited the temples of Angkor knows the character: the tuk-tuk driver, a motorized scooter that doubles as a cab, is an integral part of the Cambodian picture postcard. What foreign visitors are less aware of is how far this profession can fall short of international &#8220;decent work&#8221; standards. Most drivers are not covered by any social security system, and have to pay out of their own pockets if they are taken to hospital, particularly in the event of a road accident.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/international\/article\/2019\/05\/23\/au-cambodge-la-longue-marche-vers-la-secu_5466102_3210.html?fbclid=IwAR0Qsev5C8wRe51eKttSpWG_sHjoO5aEkec6CudpYNybX5-C64A0V-7EnBg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span><span><span lang=\"FR\"><span><span>More information<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Monde, May 23, 2019: &#8220;Decent jobs and social cohesion&#8221;. Every tourist who has visited the temples of Angkor knows the character: the tuk-tuk driver, a motorized scooter that doubles as a cab, is an integral part of the Cambodian picture postcard. What foreign visitors are less aware of is how far this profession can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1917,"featured_media":987532692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[118,129,135],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987656230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987656230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987656230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987532692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987656230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987656230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987656230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}