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The Children's Organization of Southeast Asia (COSA) [1] was a nonprofit, non-government organization based in northern Thailand that worked to prevent human trafficking in surrounding regions. Established in 2006, COSA operated by developing relationships with outreach communities based on trust, cultural understanding and partnership with ...
Nearly half a billion children in South Asia are exposed to extreme high temperatures as life-threatening heat waves caused by the climate crisis become stronger and more frequent, according to ...
Another heartbreaking factor that has contributed to human trafficking in Southeast Asia is the rise in child pornography. Young children as young as twelve years old are taken to Thailand to engage in commercial sex work (Ecpat).
In Thailand, Amerasian children are dubbed as Luk khrueng or half children in the Thai language. These Amerasians were fathered by US soldiers who took part in the Vietnam War. [39] At the height of the Vietnam War, 50,000 GIs were based in Thailand. [40] The Pearl S. Buck Foundation estimated around 5,000-8,000 Thai Amerasians.
Three decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, an emerging generation of filmmakers born and raised in the independent countries of Central Asia is giving an exhilarating charge to the region ...
[Asia-Vietnam 2] Some of these children were abandoned by the Vietnamese family or sent to orphanages. Many orphans and children were airlifted to adopting families in the United States in 1975 during "Operation Babylift" before the fall of South Vietnam. The Afro-Vietnamese (or Afro-Amerasian) children suffered much discrimination in Vietnam ...
Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees" is a racist playground chant that has been used to mock children of Asian origin. One rendering of the chant is "Chinese/Japanese/Dirty Knees/Look at these Chinese Japanese/Dirty Knees". [1]
The children of Shem are Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram, in addition to unnamed daughters. Abraham , the patriarch of Jews , Christians , and Muslims , is one of the descendants of Arphaxad. In medieval and early modern European tradition he was considered to be the ancestor of the peoples of Asia , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and he gives his name ...