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 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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Reach out before they're lost, we fight trafficking in children
We work under difficult conditions, in regions which are accessible only by small clay paths and cut off from all means of communication. It is these tiny miserable villages that serve as the main ground for the child traffickers operations. We struggle against trafficking
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Our action
From the beginning of 2006, there was a frenetic activity among the volunteers in Cambodia. We had to prepare the launch of AVEC action in two news schools, located in the Homale municipality; the Sala Balat school and the Sala Damnak Loug school - and of course we continue to support the Daksosos school... All about our activities
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| Our pictures gallery |
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Pictures gallery AVEC
Pictures about our action against the traffic of children in Cambodia. Pictures of our work of schooling in the small villages in Cambodia. We need your help...
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Topic Why
The questions: Trafficking in Children, Who is a Child?, What Makes Children Vulnerable to Sexual Exploitation?, Who sexually exploits children?, Who is involved?, What are the Impacts on Children?, How Many Children are Victims?, How Can This Happen?, Child Prostitution?, Early Marriage?, What Can Be Done?
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Topic millenium
While most of the Millennium Development Goals face a deadline of 2015, the gender parity target was set to be achieved a full ten years earlier - an acknowledgement that equal access to education is the foundation for all other development goals. Yet recent statistics show that for every 100 boys out of school, there are still 117 girls in the same situation.
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Help-us
We are looking for volunteers all over Europe, but also in Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and USA. Good will is welcome in our Non-Governmental Organisation. We are in contact with individuals and enterprises in order to build up the budget that we need to continue our work in favour of the poorest and most vulnerable of children.
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