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Child abuse in East Asia a public concern

A child with mental disability is tethered by her foot to keep her from running away at the Ban Mai Nai Soi refugee camp near the Myanmar border, where sexual abuse and kidnappings are common. Photo credit: UNICEF/Robert Few

“There was a three-year-old I encountered who had cigarette burns all over her arms…and lived on the railroad tracks, ” recalls Amalee McCoy, UNICEF’s senior child protection specialist based in Bangkok, Thailand.

McCoy met this little girl when she first moved to [...]

September 20, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

Combating child labor in Myanmar and South Asia

Instead of going to school, this boy in Mandalay is forced to collect rubbish. Photo credit: Original Nomad

In a recent study, Global Estimate of Forced Labour, the International Labour Organization (ILO) reports that children under 18 represent 26 percent of global victims of forced labor. The same report estimated the number of victims of child labor in Asia and the Pacific Rim at more than three million children.

Due to the recent lifting of sanctions against Myanmar, international organizations like [...]

August 30, 2012 | Filed under Asia,Society and Culture | Read More

New Russian Internet bill threatens development

Protest banner on Russian Wikipedia site. Photo credit: juergenfenn

On 11 July, the Russian parliament approved a controversial Internet blacklist bill intended to protect children from pornography and drug paraphernalia. As the bill worked its way through the Russian legislative process, however, experts have expressed their concern that the bill was merely a thinly veiled attempt by Putin’s government to censor the Internet to deal with recent civil unrest.

Acacia Shields, a consultant with Open Society Foundations specializing on human rights [...]

August 28, 2012 | Filed under Asia,Technology and Innovation | Read More

UNICEF battles children’s pneumonia and diarrhea

For a future without illnesses to worry about, UNICEF makes a strong stand. Photo credit: Julien Harneis

Pneumonia and diarrhea account for nearly one-third of fatalities among children under the age of five worldwide – more than 2 million lives each year. The regions of sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia have long accounted for 90 per cent of deaths. A recent UNICEF report directed attention to the epidemic of pneumonia and diarrhea and how they destroy the lives of children [...]

August 21, 2012 | Filed under Africa,Asia,Global Health | Read More

UN program helps indigenous Cambodian artisans

Indigenous woman weaving thread. Photo credit: UNDP

Indigenous communities are the archetype of sustainable societies, having historically evolved and thrived in various ecosystems. However, as the modern industrial world continues to flourish, indigenous people have been struggling to overcome hardships it has brought upon them. The depletion of their land and natural resources has forced them into crippling poverty as they face the growing free market. Not only is their property threatened, but their cultural traditions are as well.

In 2009, [...]

August 17, 2012 | Filed under Asia,Economy,MG Multimedia | Read More

Microinsurance programs target vulnerable Cambodian workers

In Cambodia, rural women employed by the garment sector leave their families each day and head to work in the capital, Phnom Penh. Although the percentage of women who are employed is gradually increasing, many of these women are left vulnerable because they are not covered by labor legislation or social protection.

Woman works at Cambodia's National Silk Center (Artisans d'Angkor). Photo credit: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra/Creative Commons

However, microinsurance programs such as GRETs Health Insurance Project (HIP), through which female rural workers [...]

March 9, 2012 | Filed under Asia,Economy | Read More

Afghanistan: mobile phones an “affordable luxury”

Man in Bazaar looking at phone while others walk by: Photo by IMTFI ( creative commons)

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Communication & Information Technology is currently implementing the second wave of its World Bank supported Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Sector Development Project. The project, approved last year, builds on the success of a series of programs and policies that have dramatically changed the telecommunication environment of Afghanistan over the past decade.

ICT development has increased exponentially in Afghanistan since the 2001 [...]

February 16, 2012 | Filed under Asia,Economy | Read More

Nepal’s economy dependent on exploitation

Thousands of migrant Nepali woman are abused worldwide. Photo credit: www.inf.org

A poor economy and lack of opportunities are forcing more and more Nepalese women to leave home and earn money abroad as domestic workers. Separated from their own children to take care of other women’s children in the Middle East or America, many of these women are mistreated and exploited. Aware of the risks, tens of thousands continue to leave every year.

Nepal is one of the poorest countries in [...]

November 22, 2011 | Filed under Asia,Economy,Least Developed Countries | Read More

School reform in Nepal raises health education concerns

During the recent United Nations Summit on HIV/AIDS, the Minister of State for Health and Population of Nepal, Dharma Shila Chapagi, announced, “Prevention is better than cure. Hence, prevention must constitute the cornerstone of the global HIV and AIDS response.”

July 7, 2011 | Filed under Asia,Global Health | Read More

Philippines makes climate change resolutions

By Toni Bacala

25 January 2011 [MediaGlobal] In the Philippines, floods and landslides marked a traumatic entry into 2011. Affecting more than 1.3 million people and causing approximately $28 million worth of property damage, the calamity of these disasters attests to the devastating consequences of poor urban planning, especially with the emerging hazards of climate change.

Set along the Pacific typhoon belt, the 7,107 islands that comprise the Philippines are persistently besieged by natural disasters. Last year’s 11 tempests caused massive destruction, [...]

March 15, 2011 | Filed under Asia,Earth Changes | Read More

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Child abuse in East Asia a public concern

Combating child labor in Myanmar and South Asia

New Russian Internet bill threatens development

UNICEF battles children’s pneumonia and diarrhea

UN program helps indigenous Cambodian artisans

Microinsurance programs target vulnerable Cambodian workers

Afghanistan: mobile phones an “affordable luxury”

Nepal’s economy dependent on exploitation

School reform in Nepal raises health education concerns

Philippines makes climate change resolutions

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