Cambodia: 2024 US's Trafficking in Persons report shows a lack of significant efforts to eliminate trafficking and Cambodia remain in Tier 3
The Government of Cambodia does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so; therefore Cambodia remained on Tier 3. Despite the lack of significant efforts, the government took some steps to address trafficking, including opening a victim support center, cooperating with foreign governments on anti-trafficking investigations, and launching an online trafficking victim identification training course available to government officials. However, corruption and official complicity – including by high-level senior government officials – in trafficking crimes remained widespread and endemic during the reporting period; this included the exploitation of tens of thousands of victims in forced criminality in online scam operations in Cambodia.