 Mom at 15 years living in the street .. is the marriage of children and adolescents below the age of 18.
The "practice of marrying girls at a young age is common in South Asia".
There are specific parts of South Asia where marriages before puberty are not unusual. However, the Centre also notes that marriage shortly after puberty is common among those living traditional lifestyles in the Middle East, North Africa and other parts of Asia. Marriages of female adolescents between sixteen and eighteen are common in parts of Latin America and Eastern Europe.
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Despite many efforts by dedicated groups and individuals to the contrary, the commercial sexual exploitation of children is a phenomenon that seems to be increasing in both scale and scope. 
AVEC campaigns for and supports measures which protect children from being exploited. In our work in Cambodia we work to rescue and rehabilitate children who have been trafficked, forced into labour,