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  Social issues under economic transformation and integration in Vietnam, Volume 2

  Vietnam Development Forum, 2008

  This is the second of two volumes looking at social issues in transition economies in reference to Vietnam.
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  Social issues under economic transformation and integration in Vietnam, Volume 1

  Vietnam Development Forum, 2008

  Fast growth and integration has intensified social problems in Vietnam. New problems have also arisen. Rapidly urbanising areas are experiencing issues with street children, prostitution, and HIV/AIDS epidemic transmission. Nationally there are problems in the education system and social welfare, rising inequality, and in elderly populations.
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  At what price, honour?: research into domestic trafficking of Vietnamese (girl) children for sexual exploitation, from slums in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

  Humantrafficking.org, 2006

  Examining what ‘risk variables’ positively incline Vietnamese families in Cambodia to consider the sale of their children for sexual exploitation, this study finds that major risk factors include crisis/extra-ordinary expenses, debt, the phenomenon of ‘normalisation’, materialism, family honour, cultural perceptions of the value/place of women.
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  Situation of children without primary caregivers in Viet Nam

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2007

  This report provides an overview of a study that examined the systems of institutional and alternative care in Viet Nam for vulnerable children who do not live with their biological parents.
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  Childhood poverty, basic services and cumulative disadvantage: an international comparative analysis

  Young Lives, 2007

  This paper explores the ability of children living in poverty to access multiple basic services. The study draws on a sample of over 8,000 children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.The authors argue that children denied access to education or health services are more likely to reside in households deprived of other basic infrastructure and therefore prone to cumulative disadvantages.
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  "Children of the dust": abuse of Hanoi street children in detention

  Human Rights Watch, 2006

  Street children in Hanoi face abuses from government authorities who regularly remove children to ‘rehabilitation’ centres, where they are detained in very poor conditions for up to six months without charge.
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  Making children’s rights work: country profiles on Cambodia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, and Vietnam

  International Bureau for Children’s Rights, 2006

  This report summarises country profiles on children’s rights in Cambodia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, and Vietnam. The report aims to highlight the existing challenges and gaps in the progress and at implementing the Convention of the Rights of the Child and its Optional Protocols.
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  Creating youth-friendly pharmacies

  YouthNet, Family Health International, 2005

  This briefing, produced by Family Health International, examines the role of pharmacies in providing reproductive health information and services to youth, especially contraceptives and referrals to services for sexually transmitted infections. It reports evidence from several countries that youth prefer pharmacies to public services as a source of contraceptives and information.
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  Working to improve the reproductive and sexual health of young people: Save the Children's experiences in Bhutan, Malawi, Nepal, and Viet Nam

  Save the Children Fund, 2005

  This report outlines the experiences of delivering an Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health (ARSH) programme in Bhutan, Malawi, Nepal and Viet Nam. A participatory approach, involving young people and other stakeholders, was used to develop and implement the programme in each country.
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  Child domestic labour in South-East and East Asia: emerging good practices to combat it

  International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 2006

  This report explores the recent situation of child domestic labour in the South-East and East Asia and the actions that are being taken to combat it in the region.Part I of the report provides an overview of child domestic labour in the region, based on existing publications and documentation.

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