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... agencies and between the government and nongovernmental organizations in the area of prevention campaigns and protection of victims of trafficking. Traffi cking in Persons for the Purpose of Prostitution: The Israeli Experience Rochelle Gershuni The 1990s...

..., the Turkish authorities began to pursue a more active and targeted policy to deal with such fl ows from 1994 to 2001. The period after 2001 has been a period of degeneration of irregular migration in Turkey; the issues of irregular migration, traffi cking, and smuggling, and their impact on the labor...

.... It is all too clear to us that a small country cannot tackle these problems effec- tively.” Criminals exploit differences in EU legal systems, he argued. They use sophisticated aliases. They develop complex traffi cking routes, often zigzagging through several countries, to avoid detection. National...

... searches and patrols of the high seas and the borders. 4. We have had our successes. One of the great scourges for us had been criminals with high-speed boats traffi cking in humans, drugs, contraband, and so on from Albania across the Adriatic. Our efforts, with our interna- tional...

... pressure. Regulation and control of the processes of migration is one of the priori- ties of the Bulgarian government. The main goal is to increase the security of Bulgarian citizens and to combat traffi cking and illegal migration. The new migration policy of Bulgaria is aimed at achieving an optimal...

... cross the Black Sea, for exam- ple from Baku to Tbilisi and Ceyhan and from the Caspian Sea shores of Kazakhstan to the port of Novorossiysk. Although environmental and traffi c concerns have been raised in relation to oil transportation through the Turk- Maior and Matei: The Black...

... have vanished into the jungle of human traffi cking and become commodities in an ugly form of trade that is managed by the new barons of a dangerous underworld. Recent statistics assembled by Greek authorities estimate that seventeen thousand women are being exploited by sex merchants in the Balkans...

... problems in EU offi cial doc- uments.14 The EU initiatives on small arms predate the 2001 UN Conference on Small Arms and Light Weapons. For instance, in 1997 the EU Council agreed on the Programme for Preventing and Combating Illicit Traffi cking in Conventional Arms, and in 1998 the council...

... well serve other countries securing mass athletic, cul- tural, or political gatherings. No doubt, terrorist threats create possibilities of confl icting environments between different civilizations. But apart from terrorism there are also other social phenomena like illegal migration, human traffi...

... time ever, law enforce- ment agencies are now legally permitted to contact their international coun- terparts to fi ght together against the international crimes of money launder- ing, traffi cking in drugs, and traffi cking in humans. For more than two years, as a result of that cooperation...

... ow of drugs through Kosovo has increased since NATO took control of the province, as has Kosovo’s importance as a transit point in the traffi cking of women from Eastern European countries to brothels in Western Europe,10 and some international offi cials claim the majority of Kosovo’s population...

... with a tide of humanity fl eeing from countries north of the Limpopo River, which are confronting poverty, civil war, environmental catastrophe, or politi- cal mismanagement. Taking advantage of this situation, organized crime syndicates have seized on the opportunity to engage in human traffi cking...

... the neighborhoods as being infested with crime and poverty. Presently, central Athens incorporates “several districts with a relatively high degree of concentration of [Albanian] immigrants; these areas are also increasingly characterized by prostitution, drug-traffi cking, criminality, degraded accommodation...

... the scourge of terrorism, however, there are many more challenges and grave problems that affl ict humanity. Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, human traffi cking, organized crime, failing states, environmental catastrophes, social and economic cri- ses, pandemics, large-scale humanitarian...

... cellphone–activated bombs on four commuter trains) resulted in 190 deaths and over 1,500 wounded. The assault (nine of the bombs exploded) occurred between 7:00 and 7:15 AM and was designed to infl ict as much damage as possible on rush-hour commuter traffi c. While the carnage and devastation...

...- Israeli confl ict and for the enhancement of the political dialogue intended to deal with such issues as the control of arms transfers, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, drug and human traffi cking, and all forms of orga- nized crime. Concerning terrorism, the parliamentarians condemned...

... traffi c with the Indies would go through Seville, not Barcelona), is reasserted against Madrid at a moment marked by the loss of Cuba and the Philippines when Castilian hispanidad appears as backward- ness, whereas the industrializing Catalonia embodies the promise of moder- nity. Nevertheless...

... industry made it easy for UNITA to sell its diamonds on the international market, where the difference between legal and illegal products was diffi cult to detect. Between 1992 and 2001 UNITA operated the largest and most organized illegal diamond traffi cking operation in the world. For example...

... into the United States in 1850.4 Even though the “ownership” of California changed, the state continued as a magnet for immigrants. Much of the traffi c stemmed from economic demands and opportunities. After they served as the labor for the building and completion of the transcontinental railroad in the late...

... States in the inter- national coalition to fi ght terrorism. This has included taking effective mea- sures, in cooperation with the American authorities and with our European partners, to track terrorist assets and to make sustained efforts to address the money laundering and narcotics traffi cking...