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Human trafficking has become a major issue in the Midwest heartland of America, causing some campaigners to dub it a modern form of slavery.

The decision to try the children in an adult court was heavily criticised by children's campaigners.

Green campaigners said the spill demonstrated the dangers of oil exploration, and called for an end to proposals to drill in the Arctic.

campaigners are now trying to have the previous shipments recalled, citing concerns about poor storage in transit.

Human-rights campaigners said the plan did not go far enough to end impunity for the army.

Meanwhile, campaigners on the left assail him for not pushing hard enough for a public health-insurance plan.

During the recent midterm election campaign, Palin was one of the most popular campaigners for Republican candidates around the country.

Fairtrade campaigners said the predictions of sharply rising prices provided a "stark warning" to international policymakers.

When animal campaigners eventually traced her, she was hardly able to stand, terrified of humans and had not had a proper meal for days.

And some argue that Shell spent so much time trying to make itself acceptable to campaigners that it ignored investors.

It is almost as if climate change campaigners are relieved that the US has lived up to its let-the-planet-go-to-hell stereotype.

Joe Rake, 20, one of the Heathrow campaigners, said he woke up to 40 officers raiding the property and searching his possessions.

Campaigners welcomed the publication of the report, calling it the only real attempt to reveal the full scale of the tragedy.

Campaigners said the approach raised potentially troubling questions and much rested on how the idea was implemented.

Climate campaigners said the change would bring the UK closer to a 10% reduction in its carbon emissions.

Campaigners from the Family Education Trust said the implant initiative would give girls licence to have underage sex.

Anti-capitalist campaigners have denied violence is inevitable as they stage a weekend of protests in London.

Anti-burqa campaigners all over Europe suggest that this is an issue of personal safety and basic trust.

There was a new wave of arrests of opposition campaigners, especially journalists, at least 65 of whom are in jail.

Anti-death penalty campaigners didn't complain about the change and many said the last meal tradition made prisons look merciful.

The campaigners added: "Our advice would be say what you need to plainly and simply then stop. If nothing needs to be said, say nothing. "

But in London, privacy campaigners say that if consumers were more aware of the issue, it could affect sales.

The Hindu-nationalist opposition party adopted Mr Ramdev's cause and other anti-corruption campaigners joined him in fasting.

Campaigners questioned the court's refusal to allow any discussion at what had been scheduled as a hearing on the case.

Pro-Lisbon campaigners hinted that Ireland would be ejected from the European mainstream if it voted No again.

Still, Sunlight and other campaigners for better access to official information have had much to celebrate over the past year.

But health campaigners fear that the details will lessen any impact theban might have.

Nigerian campaigners and foreign security people both say that outsiders are needed to help redesign and implement the amnesty.

The anti-hunting campaigners are just a bunch of bleeding hearts who don't understand the countryside.

Campaigners now have compelling documentary evidence of the human rights abuses that they had been alleging for several years.

Quite a number of them, says Amnesty, are civil-rights campaigners who have plainly had nothing to do with terrorism or jihad.

Campaigners said the use of surgery meant that girls were no longer safe even after birth.

But the ACC recently annoyed anti-corruption campaigners by settling a scandal over the state social-security agency out of court.

It is questionable whether any of the pits would have been cleaned up had it not been for the campaigners.

A major US airline has been attacked by environmental campaigners for flying empty planes across the Atlantic to be disinfected.

Elton John has paid tribute to gay rights campaigners and urged others around the world to "stand up and speak out" against homophobia.

That we human rights campaigners climbed out of our little cage and starting making a noise.

And that's exactly what's worrying anti-corruption campaigners as China becomes the biggest new investor across the continent.

Environmental campaigners and anti-Kremlin political activists contended there were other less damaging routes that could have been chosen.

Public discontent may be filling the campaigners' sails, but political support for reforms is still patchy.

Human-rights campaigners are deeply sceptical that the investigation into her death will uncover the truth behind her killing.

Campaigners against the new road were celebrating on Thursday night, believing that Mr Medvedev's intervention amounted to a solid victory.

Climate change secretary Ed Miliband told the conference the biggest danger faced by campaigners was creating a sense of defeatism.

Campaigners blame a lack of resources and an overly strict interpretation of the law by the State Department.

Dozens more campaigners have been jailed in a dramatic widening of the purge against reformists that began in June.

He says political leaders and green campaigners should stop dodging the issue of environmental harm caused by an expanding population.

Pro-hunting campaigners say that antelope and buffalo would be the main quarry.

Environmental campaigners in the US have lost a battle to have the polar bear listed as an "endangered" species.

It would represent a temporary victory for environmental campaigners, who staged last summer's climate camp near the Kent site.

You see groups of former Devadasi becoming social activists and campaigners against the tradition. That's one way out.

Furthermore, some campaigners would like to see certain tests replaced and more humane methods used.

Campaigners say condoms are one of the few methods proven to stop the spread of HIV.

But campaigners warn that it would give the online behemoth unprecedented control over individuals' personal data.

Campaigners say the publicity created by Miss Campbell's appearance can be used to highlight the issue of conflict diamonds.

Anti-trafficking campaigners point out that cases in the US come in a wide variety of forms involving men, women and children.

pro-choice campaigners have warned of an increase in back-street abortions and women being wrongly prosecuted for miscarriages.

Campaigners, however, fear the new generation of wind farms are far too big and will blight the British landscape.

The bans have two aims: to limit communication between campaigners and the outside world, and to help the regime gather information.

Equality campaigners pooh-pooh the idea that permission to hold civil-partnership registrations could ever become an obligation to do so.

Women's and children's rights campaigners denounced the practice as a "social madness" that made a "mockery of women in India" .

English energy campaigners say "stand-by culture" is responsible for one million tons of carbon being pumped into the atmosphere each year.

The incident, in which one activist suffered cracked ribs, marked a dramatic escalation in hostilities between whalers and campaigners.

While scientists say they lack firm evidence connecting recent weather to the human influence on climate, campaigners still push the notion.

Italy has many brave anti-mafia campaigners who have risked their lives to keep an old Italian tradition of civic activism alive.

Campaigners for human rights, meanwhile, are delighted to have some more popular examples of the act's benefits to talk up.

Campaigners also want to see more countries agree to the automatic exchange of tax information on non-residents.

But campaigners for the environment and for indigenous peoples are not so enthusiastic.

Britain has been one of the most consistently vocal campaigners against withdrawing stimuli too soon.

Campaigners affiliated to the group film surveillance officers in action and upload their details to a website.

Campaigners who want to curb the number of mothers from mainland China coming over the border to give birth have labelled them "locusts" .

Among campaigners for political change, it is agreed that universal suffrage is not enough to give power to the people.

The president's decision to travel in August inflamed France's political opposition and human rights campaigners.

Environmental groups and anti-nuclear campaigners, however, warned against the potential dangers.

Reforms are being undertaken, but they are neither radical nor rapid enough to satisfy campaigners.

But now some leading environmental campaigners have performed a U-turn and said that they got it wrong.

But health campaigners attacked the recommendations for being too vague and falling significantly short of actions proposed by the WHO.

Although not legally binding, anti-smoking campaigners are delighted with the explicit wording of the guidelines.

Privacy campaigners welcomed the new dashboard, launched at a conference of data protection commissioners in Madrid.

I am also -- I am also, of course, very thankful to Governor Sarah Palin, one of the best campaigners I've ever seen. . .

Campaigners for single parents and the poor say a recession is no time to get stingy.

These moves give campaigners new ammunition in the first big battle to reshape the rules of the business game: executive compensation.

The sudden implementation of the feature, without warning, has sparked concerns among privacy campaigners.

Campaigners said allowing the livestock industry to become reliant on GM soy is letting in the controversial technology "by the back door" .

Campaigners want the act dropped from variety shows to be broadcast on Thursday to mark the end of the Chinese New Year holiday.

Academics and campaigners increasingly say responsibility for these emissions lies with the consumer countries.

For these reasons, campaigners have protested against the technology and accused scientists of 'playing God'.

Environmental campaigners slam the conference for not having produced clear emissions reduction commitments.

Such a scheme could achieve 90% return rates, the campaigners claim.

The internet helps campaigners on human rights, as on other issues, to get their message round the world rather effectively.

Campaigners in New York have started a suit against Baidu, saying its censored search results violate their constitutional rights.

Campaigners are increasingly using courts in industrial countries to contest alleged environmental damage .

It's an everyday fact of life in India - but campaigners are now fighting back, using people power and the internet.

Talk of a seat straddling Cornwall and Devon already has campaigners in the south-west incensed.

Japan has returned in recent years without fulfilling its catch quota due to increasing harassment from the campaigners.

However health campaigners warned that the garments could contribute to already increasing cases of deadly skin cancer.

Green campaigners say refrigeration or dry ice is a good alternative to formaldehyde, which can seep into the water system.

Some scientists and campaigners in Paris nevertheless hailed the results, if not as a triumph, then as a beacon of hope.

But rather than acknowledge their unpopularity, campaigners frequently dismiss voters as selfish, or even stupid.

Campaigners against sexual and domestic violence are concerned that it will deter victims from pressing charges.

But campaigners say the practice is a dangerous distraction that allows rich nations to disguise rising greenhouse gas production.

Legal campaigners are waging an information-gathering effort that earns the grudging respect of intelligence operatives.

Superintendent David Hartshorn, from the Met's public order branch, conceded law-abiding campaigners were being added to the database.

Some silly campaigners said this merely encouraged their use, handed the supply chain to gangsters and exponentially increased crime.

Campaigners are using these images to appeal to governments to tighten up laws to stop this cruel behavior.

The campaigners accusing Apple were Chinese, not westerners who could be depicted as outside busybodies.

Hundreds of Somali aid workers, human-rights campaigners and journalists have been killed or exiled.

And the notion of passive smoking allowed campaigners to go even further, and seek to stamp out smoking almost everywhere.

Human-rights campaigners have increasingly lobbied against investments by Chinese state-owned oil companies.

There's been no communication with any of the pro-Palestinian campaigners on board.

However, campaigners suggested the new pledge was undermined by its reliance on the industry funding emissions cuts elsewhere.

Campaigners in Greece and across the world aim to create a huge wave of public pressure to force a new climate change treaty.

Campaigners have slammed the verdict, calling the two-year prison term for the former top managers "too light. "

But the Robin Hood campaigners have dented my confidence that they should be trusted with my cash.

Campaigners in the Netherlands are now pushing for elderly people who are "tired of life" to be helped to die too.

But the IT industry, unlike aviation, has not provoked the wrath of environmental campaigners.

For instance, campaigners often ask for more to be spent on primary education.

Journalists have been attacked; dozens of campaigners have been arrested or injured.

The findings will intensify calls from campaigners for the new government to do more to ensure equal pay in the UK.

Net neutrality campaigners say Google's response is contradictory, hence the negative response to the Verizon pact.

Health campaigners fear this could make it difficult to achieve near-universal coverage.

Names of the animal campaigners have been changed as the people we interviewed are concerned about officials' reaction to our story.

The transfer of the two campaigners Thursday has ended a tense standoff in the icy waters of the Southern Ocean.

Political opponents and human-rights campaigners are still arrested and thrown into the country's jails on trumped-up charges.

Campaigners for the poor have plenty to complain about.

Privacy campaigners condemned Twitter yesterday for allowing businesses to buy access to its archive of millions of tweets.

In several countries political leaders now talk the same language as campaigners for transparent government.

Campaigners are worried that the lack of diagnosis can have catastrophic effects.

But campaigners insisted the research was "seriously flawed" and would falsely reassure mobile phone users.

CLUTCH of billionaires and anti-poverty campaigners gathered this month in the Tanzanian bush to mull over Africa's development.

That does not mean fringe parties are easily elected under AV, as some No campaigners claim.

Campaigners for Savita's reinstatement hope to use India's freedomof-information laws to uncover who demanded that the site be blacklisted.

Despite today's agreement, environmental campaigners denounced the EU accord as inadequate.

That will be seen as an ineffectual response by development campaigners.

Free-speech campaigners, who think the rich and powerful use privacy to shield wrongdoing, welcomed the decision.

Even in the past fortnight, leading human-rights campaigners and people prominent in Mr Tsvangirai's party have been abducted.

Mr Mandela, who stepped down as South Africa's first black president in 1999, has become one of the world's leading AIDS campaigners.

Campaigners expect actual turnout to be still lower.

Campaigners have long argued that corn ethanol's dominance has shut out efforts to develop a next generation of biofuels.

Campaigners accuse China of exaggerating the threat to justify tough security clampdowns in the region.

The plans are intended to revive the state's timber industry, but worry green campaigners who say it will devastate the region.

Anti-poverty campaigners can admire their efforts to offer banking services to the illiterate.

In Quebec, campaigners held a discussion raising awareness about violence in popular video games.

China lacks a true civil society and environmental campaigners are kept within strict boundaries.

Campaigners fear that large-scale gas exploration could ruin the peninsula's delicate Arctic ecology.

Civil-liberties campaigners argue that a judge sitting alone cannot be as representative of society as 12 people selected at random.

That hurts journalists, and scientists and anti-corruption campaigners.

Anti-nuclear campaigners emphasise the damage and pollution inflicted by uranium mines.

For many pro-choice campaigners, the murder was evidence that inflammatory rhetoric begets violence.

Ben Lyons, co-director of campaigners Intern Aware, says he has come across advertisements for "intern receptionists and cooks" .

In inflated prices and stolen food anti-corruption campaigners see proof of how aid rots everything it touches.

In any event, campaigners say the internet is no substitute for face-to-face meetings to keep their cause alive.

Campaigners Christian Voice accused the app of trivialising marriage and divorce.

But human rights campaigners point out that the games also laid bare less savoury aspects of the party's rule.

Pro-democracy campaigners, though weakened, are planning new protests.

Green campaigners fell back in line.

Some Yes campaigners admit that AV has flaws but argue that changing the system once will make future changes easier.

But democracy campaigners worry that the army may feel forced to intervene in running the country.

In areas without radio, the campaigners spread the message through community theater.

Campaigners want a ban because the weapons, which release smaller bomblets over a wide area, do great harm to civilians.

Correspondents say attention will be focused on the turnout after some pro-reform campaigners urged a boycott.

And everywhere they went, the campaigners wore orange T-shirts and hats. They even drove orange vehicles.

Anti-smoking and health campaigners are happy, but smokers' lobby group like Forest said it stepped too far.

Human-rights campaigners say that impunity rules, both in the streets and in police stations.

But alcohol campaigners said any idea that drinking could promote good health was dangerous.

The findings only came to light after Monsanto was forced to publish its raw data on safety tests by anti-GM campaigners.

The Chinese campaigners said they used public information and court documents to come up with a list of 20 suppliers.

Indian and Chinese climate campaigners welcomed the show of solidarity.

Corporate choices are complex. Campaigners and the media often deal in simplicities.

In 2009, Jonas became a pioneer of the wheelchair campaigners working as an Operation Dry Law enforcement officer.

But neither sanctions nor campaigners' insistence that all debt is bad tackle the root problem.

But campaigners against seal hunting are not wholly beyond reproach either.

Some campaigners are bitter that the convention was signed in Uganda.

All evidence in this room points to the fact that this warning will continue to go unheeded by the majority of environmentalist campaigners.

Anti-racist campaigners and homosexuals have also been attacked.

The campaigners, it says, have miscalculated the volume of water that the dam would retain.

Civil-liberties campaigners have sometimes undermined their cause by denying that it entails any loss of security.

Campaigners say it is the biggest demonstration since Morocco took control of Western Sahara.

Russian gay rights activists were joined by campaigners from America and Europe in what has become an annual event.

Some animal rights campaigners have criticised the government for putting economic considerations ahead of animal welfare.

Nonetheless, campaigners think the treaty will reduce and stigmatise the use of cluster munitions.

But going by the latest figures, aid campaigners say, the donors will be way off target.

Local human-rights campaigners say the army has indeed halted a worrying turn of events.

Campbell argues that campaigners for change capitalise on the fear of dying.

Environmental campaigners say they are not surprised by the new report as they claim there is widespread abuse of the government scheme.

These go well beyond the usual media-freedom campaigners.

But green campaigners complained the data gathered were not published in full.

Fair organisers bowed to pressure from animal rights campaigners who claim foie gras production is cruel.

Campaigners believe the marines on Okinawa will soon revert to their old ways once the curfew is lifted.

Groups of anti-China protesters, including pro-Tibet campaigners, have followed the Chinese premier during his visit to Britain.

The civil society campaigners and the government have exchanged drafts of the law that they want enacted.

Free speech campaigners are concerned that the list could be tweaked to suits the government's aims.

But, the campaigners warn, nature has had plenty of time to weed out any mistakes.

In any event, many anti-AIDS campaigners found ways of getting round Mr Bush's restrictions.

For their part, Western diplomats and human-rights campaigners bemoan what they see as an overreaction by the government.

Anti-alcohol campaigners are less enchanted.

Campaigners say the ruling paves the way for other Iraqis to seek redress in British courts.

Uganda's handful of brave homosexual campaigners beg to differ.

Human-rights people say 300-odd campaigners, most of them Shias, have since been detained. That number will now grow.

Shanghai held the first Gay Pride week and in Beijing, campaigners called for same-sex marriages.

This week's breakthrough marked the culmination of months of work by Western diplomats and campaigners.

Where were the anti-nuclear campaigners then?

Despite decades of work by health campaigners, more than one billion people still smoke today.

Campaigners welcomed the promise, which is a defeat for some senior judges who have argued that nothing much is amiss.

Campaigners for gay marriage say they are gaining ground, though very slowly.

At one point campaigners stood in Oxford Street handing out calling cards printed with details of mobile phone company bosses.

Campaigners such as the Global Witness group also want tougher rules on providers of registration services.

Such examples underscore why campaigners are rushing to make the most of map technology.

Campaigners now want the governor of Arkansas, Mike Beebe, to pardon the three men.

Human rights campaigners say Kazakhstan is not fit to chair the OSCE because it flaunts human rights and harasses critics of the government.

And privacy campaigners in America have made a formal complaint to regulators.

But the government's approach, say campaigners, signals that resistance will often be futile.

eg. But the government's plans have run into strong opposition from civil rights campaigners.

But Google has come under attack from civil liberties campaigners because it collects data from users to target them with advertising.

Gay rights campaigners maintain that between 150 and 200 gay men are murdered in Italy every year.

Campaigners say the traditional tokens of affection exchanged on February 14 should be ditched because they damage the planet.

Anti-fur campaigners say they will now turn their attention to the remaining shops in Ireland that continue to stock fur.

Campaigners claimed that users were not made aware of exactly what would be done with their details.

"I think it's excellent news for all the campaigners , " said Lee.

[font=Verdana]Campaigners had hoped to learn more about cabinet deliberations on the lawfulness of invading Iraq without UN authorisation.

Campaigners praise Scandinavian countries such as Norway and Sweden for having done a lot to tackle the problem.

Social and environmental campaigners now have a trickier target than the World Bank.

They say life begins at 40 - but according to health campaigners, that is just when everything starts to go rapidly downhill.

At present, however, it is the health of millions of animals that is exercising campaigners.

In Russia, too, campaigners have some cause for cheer.

FOR years, anti-poverty campaigners railed against low commodity prices, which depressed farmers' incomes in developing countries.

Southern campaigners say the police killed some 148 civilians last year and have killed 36 so far this year.

A "historical memory" law passed last year enraged the right but was denounced by campaigners as toothless.

In February last year, campaigners urged women to boycott lingerie shops with male staff for two week.

Few pro-democracy campaigners think it will be done by January, but they hope such steps may lead to cleaner polls in the future.

environmental campaigners from Uruguay and China were both trying to stop the destruction of forests by huge papermill companies;

Internet campaigners suggested cutting the Russian embassy's heating. (Serbia has also seen anti-Russian protests. )

Feeling blue? Spending time looking at a touch of greenery can dispel stress, according to countryside campaigners

Governments and campaigners want tighter scrutiny of company registration. Others don't

Campaigners hope this will stop similarecological disasters from happening again

Anti-litter campaigners call for deposit scheme for drinks containers

At times, the strategy used by public-health campaigners may seem heavy-handed;

Nowadays, most people look to governments, and to campaigners like Sir Bob Geldof:

Climate campaigners set up camp at London airport