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ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol.02, No.05 (29 JAN 2003)
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The Younger the Better: 19,250 Children Trapped in Cambodia's Sex Industry
A UNICEF survey concluded that 35 percent of Cambodia's 55,000 prostitutes are children under the age of 16. The oldest girls in the sex industry today are teenagers, says Sao Chhoeurth, who works wit...
Myanmar: Blinded Child Soldier Returned Home
Maung Aung Myo Thant, 15-years-old, was kidnapped while on his way home from his workplace in Rangoon last July and forced to join the National army. He was locked up for two days in the family quarte...
India: Children in India's Silk Industry- HRW Report
In a report recently released by the New York based Human Rights Watch revealed the rampant prevalence of bonded child labour in the silk industry in India. The 85 page report investigates bonded chil...
ILO: Global Employment Trends [Study]
In the new study, the ILO estimates that the number of unemployed worldwide grew by 20 million since the year 2000 to reach a total of 180 million at the end of last year.Asia suffered most severely f...
ECPAT: Child Sex Abuse and Social Customs [Study]
A recent report released by the Bangkok-based international child protection campaign group, ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes), found th...
News Briefs
1. BRUNEI DARRUSSALAM: INCREASE IN ABANDONED BABIES - A WORRYING TRENDSpeaking at a forum on the UN Convention on Rights of the Child, a leading woman social worker, Hajah Mordia, mentioned that at le...
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