Word: ngo
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...downloading child pornography?might be viewed as progress in the fight against Asia's child-sex industry. "I started working in Thailand in 1992, and back then there was no legislation?nothing," says Bernadette McMenamin, national director of the Australian arm of End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking, an NGO. Those who lure children into prostitution in Thailand now face jail time of up to 15 years (previously, they were only fined). And predators who have sex with a child prostitute can?at least in theory?get 20 years behind bars. In Cambodia too, new laws on human trafficking...
...country illegally from neighboring Vietnam. These child prostitutes are highly profitable bait for well-heeled visitors. More than 65% of all tourists to Cambodia are men, and one-fifth of them are there for the sex industry, according to a survey of travel agents by World Vision, a Christian NGO active in child protection...
...That's typically true, in part because brothels throughout the region are often protected by corrupt police and government officials with a vested interest in making only occasional, symbolic busts in which prostitutes?but no pimps or customers?are arrested. Says Pierre Legros, founder of a child rights NGO in Phnom Penh: "You can't change a system that is rotten to the core, no matter how good your legislation or how much pressure is applied...
Summer 2001: I travel to Nicaragua to work for an NGO. Somehow, I finagle myself into a party at the ambassador’s residence. There, I meet the members of a congressional committee and, more importantly, their military escorts. Impeccably mannered, neatly dressed, well-spoken military men and women flood the patio while the congressmen swill rum punch. A naval attaché takes me under her wing and introduces me to all the “right people” as I marvel at her grace, strength, presence and poise. Later in the summer, I wait by the side...
...That the world needs an e-graveyard is no surprise. For every new technology born, an old one is laid to rest, and new technologies come along rapidly in the information age. But a report issued last week by the Basel Action Network (BAN), a Seattle-based NGO, sheds new light on where old computers go to die?and on the environmental consequences. E-waste, electronic gear containing hazardous material, is routinely sold and shipped from the industrialized world to developing countries in Asia for recycling. It's a messy business that "leaves the poorer peoples of the world with...