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Local demand fuels Cambodian child prostitution

The problem of child prostitution in Cambodia is often depicted as an industry which serves predatory foreign tourists.

Cambodia

Child prostitution, HIV-AIDS, Rape and sexual abuse

Witnessed: 258 times

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From landmine victims in Cambodia to IDPs in Kenya, Stand Up 2008

In 2006, the first global call for citizens of the world to Stand Up against poverty mobilized 24 million people in 87 countries, setting a Guinness World Record.

Global

Education, Food & health & development, Poverty

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Poverty in Haiti spawns child slavery

Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere and the poverty has fuelled restavek, a system of domestic servitude of hundreds of thousands of children that is tantamount to modern-d...

Haiti

Child labor, Poverty, Slavery & forced labor

Witnessed: 215 times

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Stand Up and Take Action: Millennium Development Goals

Join the biggest mobilisation worldwide to end poverty and inequality and for the Millennium Development Goals.

Stand Up and Take Action - October 17-19 2008

Global

Education, Food & health & development, Poverty

Witnessed: 190 times

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Poverty forces Afghan children into smuggling

Poverty in Afghanistan is driving some families to take desperate measures.

They are sending boys as young as five across the border into Pakistan, to buy cheap flour, and smuggle it back home.

Afghanistan, Pakistan

Child labor, Food & health & development, Poverty

Witnessed: 130 times

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Philippines: Missed Targets in the Fight Against Poverty (Part 1)

Co-produced by the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) and Social Watch Philippines, this video tells the story of a trolley man in Sta....

Philippines

Drugs & human rights, Education, Poverty

Witnessed: 362 times

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Stand Up and Take Action - Millennium Development Goals

Join the biggest mobilisation worldwide to end poverty and inequality and for the Millennium Development Goals.

Stand Up and Take Action - October 17-19 2008

Poverty

Witnessed: 431 times

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Roundup: Highlights this week on the Hub

In case you missed it, here's the buzz from this week on the Hub:

Global

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