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Sukina Hammond's father had a long history of violence against his wife. When he battered the little girl to death in 1988, the incident led to the belated realisation that domestic violence has its hidden victims — the children. This study arose from the need for child care practitioners to have a better understanding of the experience of families living with domestic violence. The research was carried out at NCH Action For Children Family Centres around Britain, using questionaires supported by in-depth interviews with mothers and their children.

Ron O'Grady has been International Coordinator of ECPAT since its formation in 1990. He is a fourth generation New Zealander who has worked for human rights in Asia for the past 25 years. This book is his personal reflection on the dynamic six-year history of ECPAT.

Every year a million children on our vulnerable planet are exploited for sexual and pornographic purposes, bartered or sold like slaves to meet the unflagging demand of those predators of the innocent, the paedophiles, playing an ever growing part in the vast world of sexual tourism. In fact, the data on this grim phenomenon show it spreading ever wider, with increasingly disquieting future prospects and an appalling escalation in blood-chilling episodes.

ECPAT International Young People's Action against Sexual Exploitation of Children offers this book to all committed to young people's participation. The book highlights the efforts of young people in addressing the issues that affect their lives. Insights from their experiences show us the forms of participation and the circumstances in which they are able to act and make a significant contribution to their own development as well as to the development of the community. Their experiences illustrate the process they need to undergo in order to participate.

"Social Monitor 2003" reviews recent socio-economic trends in the 27 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. It contains six articles: Economic Growth, Poverty, and Long-Term Disadvantage examines recent trends in national income, poverty and public expenditure. Debt Service: An Emerging Problem looks at the growth of external debt in the poorest countries in the region. Refugees and Displaced Persons: Still Large Numbers reviews trends in the numbers of refugees and displaced persons and their living conditions.

World Congress III against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents: Lead Organising Partners: ECPAT, UNICEF,  BRASIL, NGO GROUP FOR THE CRC

osario Baluyot was 11 years old when she died on 20 May 1987. She was a street child in Olongapo, the Philippines, and was a victim of sex tourism involving the commerciai sexual exploitation of children. Her death was the result of such exploitation by an Austrian physician. Majgull Axelsson has reconstructed Rosario Baluyot's short life which she vividly and with great insight describes in the form of a documentary novel. "I have never been so moved, shocked and disturbed by a book before. I did not want to read on, but felt bound to continue.

Minou Fuglesang is a social anthropologist (Ph.D.) working at the Unit of International Health Care Research (IHCAR) at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. She has done substantial research on adolescents and sexual and reproductive health in east Africa Fuglesang is also the author of "Veils and Videos - female youth culture on the Kenyan coast" (Stockholm: Alrnqvist and Wiksell International, 1994).