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In many parts of the world, parents have two choices -- either pay the full cost of medical care for their children or hope that free treatment will be available under government programs. In the United States, much of the cost of a child's medical care is usually absorbed by the family's health insurance plan. But for parents, the cost of health insurance has steadily outstripped the cost of inflation in recent years. VOA's Melinda Smith has more on the dilemma many working parents face when their child gets sick.

The problem of child prostitution in Cambodia is often depicted as an industry which serves predatory foreign tourists. But the vast majority of customers who pay for underage sex are local, Cambodian men. It has been suggested that one in 40 Cambodian girls is sold into sex slavery. David Hawkins reports from the capital, Phnom Penh.

An estimated three million people have been left homeless after massive floods swamped hundreds of villages in northern India. In the wake of this natural disaster, Al Jazeera's Anar Virji reports from India's Bihar state where many poor families have resorted to selling their children into bond slavery as a mean to survival.