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Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos

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The other half of the day they go to university pursuing advanced studies in numerous different fields (I asked a bunch of the students their area of study and heard answers like business, law, accountancy and even forestry).

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Women Activists Profiled by Mariane Pearl in Glamour

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Pearl has profiled 9 women in 9 countries: Cambodia: Somaly Mam, a former sex worker who founded Acting for Women in Distressing Situations , an organization that rescues sex workers in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, and gives them job training.

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Preventing Human Trafficking: An Interview with Christina Arnold

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There is actually a great piece by a professor at George Washington University, Ronald Weitzer. One of the ideas that they came up with, which they started years ago with the Population Community Development Association of Thailand, was to have village banks. Wanting to do something to help change that has been a long journey.