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    Indigenous women working towards improved maternal health: Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia

    Health Unlimited, 2006
    This Health Unlimited paper summarises a report which identifies the barriers that indigenous women face in accessing publicly provided maternal health services in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia. The paper reveals the persistent and deep problems in accessing health care. These include cost of care; distance from health centres and transportation; discrimination; and language.
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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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    Towards equal opportunities for all: empowering girls through partnerships in education

    United Nations Girls' Education Initiative, 2007
    This document looks at education partnerships as a way of empowering girls and promoting equal opportunities. It discuses seven case studies from East Asia on programmes addressing the educational needs of girls, particularly those who are marginalised for economic, social or cultural reasons.
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    Cambodia: Women and Work in the Garment Industry

    2006
    Women make up over 90 percent of approximately 290,000 garment workers in Cambodia. Based on a survey of 981 female garment workers and 80 human resource and administrative personnel, this study explores attitudes and practices around health and nutrition, breast feeding and childcare, personal security, harassment, workplace relations, and conflict resolution.
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    Asia-Latina Women's Exchange: Mapping the Impacts of the Quota Phase-out on Workers' Lives

    Maquila Solidarity Network, 2005
    Until January 2005 countries' garment and textile industries were restricted under the global Multifibre Trade Agreement which imposed quotas on exports as a way to enable growth of these industries in less developed countries. As part of the Agreement, this quota system was gradually phased out.
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    Inclusive growth toward a prosperous Asia: policy implications

    Asian Development Bank, 2007
    Asia’s impressive economic growth is being complemented by soaring inequalities. This paper argues that if rising income and non-income inequalities are not addressed, there is a major risk to continued social and economic progress in developing Asia.
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    How donors fail at educating children in conflict-torn states

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
    Even in times of conflict, education is a basic human right. Yet out of the world’s 77 million children out of school, half live in conflict-affected fragile states – a disproportionate number. Why are these children losing out on attending school and what is needed to rectify this situation?
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    How labour intensive is a doctor-based delivery model for antiretroviral treatment (ART)?: evidence from an observational study in Siem Reap, Cambodia

    Human Resources for Health, 2007
    This article from Human Resources for Health shows that delivering antiretroviral therapy (ART) initially involves a high level of input from doctors but that this decreases as delivery is scaled-up. As increased funding is made available for delivering ART to those affected by HIV, the most significant remaining obstacle is the shortage of health professionals.
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    Underpaid, overworked and overlooked: the realities of young migrants in Thailand

    Human Trafficking, 2006
    Thailand has emerged as the number one destination in cross-border trafficking of children and women. Many children and young women from Myanmar, Cambodia and Lao PDR migrate to Thailand in search of better life. Often their journey leads them to a life of exploitation.
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    Out of sight, out of mind? Child domestic workers and patterns of trafficking in Cambodia

    International Organization for Migration, 2007
    What are the processes and mechanisms of trafficking within Cambodia for the two target groups, Commercially Sexually Exploited Women and Girls (CSEWGs) and child domestic workers (CDWs)? This study looks at how the ‘pull’ factors in different provinces lead to migration and trafficking and seeks to understand how process of migration could constitute trafficking.

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