trafficking

The trafficking of cocaine, marijuana, heroin and other drugs has continued to frustrate the efforts of governments around the world.

Child trafficking is rampant in Southeast Asia, with hundreds of thousands of children caught up in this lucrative and shadowy business.

That reduces the incentives for trafficking into Sweden, and the number of prostitutes seems to have declined there.

Kennedy found there was a significant "intelligence gap" in the police and enforcement agencies about the scale and nature of trafficking.

City Hall chiefs have called on top phone companies to help crack down on prostitution and trafficking in the lead up to the sporting event.

A woman packed into a transparent suitcase bearing a label that says "Stop Human Trafficking! " rides on the luggage belt at Munich Airport.

Experts believe that, when cases of internal trafficking are added, the total number of victims could be up to five times larger.

He wants government and law enforcement agencies across the world to help tackle the trafficking of these performance-enhancing substances.

Colombia has extradited a woman known as The Queen of the Amphetamines to the United States, where she'll face charges of drug trafficking.

Sociologists say it encourages abuse, notably in the trafficking of the sort that Sakina first suffered from but is now ready to pay for.

One morning, someone ran up to me and said somebody had been dropped off dead by the human trafficking agents.

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

new security problems are cropping up in the form of terrorism, transnational crimes, environmental degradation and drug trafficking.

He said India has hundreds of thousands of six(sex) trafficking victims and millions of banged(bonded) laborers.

In a number of high-profile cases, the police have cracked down on trafficking rings and publicized the results.

Victims of human trafficking can sometimes be granted a special visa that allows them to stay in the U. S. for up to four years.

It also criticised the Macao government for not recognising it had a significant trafficking problem.

Australia is considering a law that would block some websites in an effort to prevent the trafficking of child porn, she said.

He said India has hundreds of thousands of sex trafficking victims and millions of bonded laborers .

In my last column, I described the sex trafficking in places like Cambodia as a modern form of slavery, and I believe that.

He seems heartfelt in his desire to address the poverty of his native land and to stamp out sex trafficking, among other abuses.

Police in Thailand say they've broken up a baby trafficking ring which forced Vietnamese women to have babies which were put up for sale.

Mr Tremonti was (and, indeed, still is) caught up in an influence-trafficking scandal.

The rapid changes in Sri Lanka since the end of the civil war two years ago are raising concerns that sex trafficking there could increase.

The only business that seems to thrive is drug trafficking.

I advise you to give that bar a wide berth; it is said to be related to drug-trafficking and prostitution and thus has an ill reputation.

Mr. Bento, who joined the class after his brother died, said he had considered going into drug trafficking to gain access to guns.

He made a lot of money by trafficking illicit merchandise.

The earlier report estimated profits from trafficking alone at more than thirty billion dollars a year.

Kim eventually found refuge in South Korea after fleeing to China, where she said she suffered sex trafficking.

That was the finding of a study by the Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center, established by Congress.

Mexican authorities have linked the money to a network trafficking pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient in methamphetamine.

Earlier in November, the United Nations launched a voluntary trust fund to help trafficking victims reintegrate into society.

Clinton emphasized that the annual Trafficking in Persons report "is not an indictment of past failures but a guide to future progress. "

Cross-border drug trafficking and other related criminal activities are among the most serious problems to be tackled by the SCO.

train law enforcement officers across the U. S. in recognizing and responding to victims of human trafficking.

In 2005 the US relegated Cambodia to the bottom tier and imposed sanctions in a bid to force the enactment of anti- trafficking laws .

She said that although many countries have anti-trafficking laws, enforcement is lagging.

But in my years and years of reporting, I've found that the biggest trafficking problem involves homegrown American runaways.

The second SAR SHAN state of Myanmar is the largest area for drug cultivation, manufacture and trafficking in among the north of Myanmar.

If convicted on drug trafficking charges, he faces up to life in prison.

Put simply, child trafficking is the movement of a child, within a country or across borders for exploitative purposes.

"Why should I pay money for having my own kid? " he told China Daily at the time. "It's not human trafficking. It's our right as citizens. "

Illicit trafficking of radioactive materials will result in serious threaten to society in the case of nuclear and radiological terrorism.

Management troubles and drug trafficking allegations only added to the company's problems.

Both women were among nine individuals from around the world honored by the State Department as heroes in the fight against trafficking.

Pray for an immediate end to the trafficking of little boys and little girls and of women in Thailand.

When peace came, drug-trafficking syndicates were springing up across Central America to transport Colombian cocaine to the United States.

The latest battleground in a multilateral war between drug-trafficking gangs and the authorities, Monterrey is not a dusty outpost.

Added to that, the government's crackdown on drug-trafficking cartels had led to a surge in violence, with apparently little pay-off.

According to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, human trafficking is now the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world.

As one sign of this feeling, a Council of Europe convention on trafficking went into force this year; 17 countries have ratified it.

Our government wants to equate our enterprise to organ trafficking, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Often this is the result of a sexual attack. And, violence against women, forced labor and human trafficking of young females continue.

The United States imposed new sanctions against North Korea in August, targeting intelligence units and those trafficking in luxury goods.

The resolution bemoans the existence of this barbarous institution, calling it the biggest human trafficking crime of the 20th century.

Aung Thein suggested the suspension of the law could be aimed at preventing human trafficking, but he described it as unfair.

Another kind of businessman at Liangshan is engaged in trafficking in etc. buying and sell, go up a hill for the bandit after losing money.

Both two main routes the international drug trafficking gang used to smuggle drugs from Asia and South America to Europe go through Austria.

What he said revealed an important clue as to trafficking in drugs.

At the meeting, attending parties will exchange views on combating terrorism, drug trafficking and organized crimes.

It has deciphered secret communications about murder, drug transactions, illegal gambling and human trafficking.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has named him as a goodwill ambassador to combat human trafficking.

But in Haiti, he went on, a culturally accepted form of child trafficking already exists.

The underlying problem in Mexico is not drug-trafficking in itself, but that neither the police nor the courts do their job properly.

Many observers have reported that since 1994, the DKBA has degenerated into a ragtag drug-trafficking and extortion squad.

In Europe and Central and south Asia women are often recruited by other women who were themselves the victims of trafficking.

As the State Department has found, it is hard to discuss cross-border trafficking without looking at what occurs inside countries.

In a number of "son preference" is serious country, gender imbalance also makes the phenomenon of trafficking in women intensified.

The method can be used to dissect the molecular requirements for organelle movement and membrane trafficking.

The Tajik leaders expressed their willingness to cooperate with China in cracking down on the "three evil forces" and drug trafficking.

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

Issues of slavery, trafficking, and exploitation will continue to be highlighted in the news.

At the same time, she said, Afghanistan still faces threats from extremist violence and narcotics trafficking.

Xenophobia's on the rise -- the trafficking of women and girls. It's enough to make you feel very overwhelmed.

Spanish police have broken up a sex trafficking ring that brought Brazilian men to Spain to work as prostitutes, the BBC reported.

Human trafficking, Clinton said, affects virtually every country, including the United States.

Most of the violence are attributed to drug gangs for control of drug trafficking into the United States access each other battles.

Even in high crime, drug trafficking despite repeated prohibitions of Mexico's bloody past week is still chilling.

Migration and the trafficking of drugs and guns across Mexico's northern border with the United States capture endless headlines.

She reluctantly gave up the tadpoles after the customs officers reminded her that trafficking wildlife is prohibited.

Prostitution, drug trafficking, and underground restaurants are arbitrarily controlled by the Chechens.

It discusses climate change, trafficking of people, guns and drugs and other aspects of the "dark side of globalisation" .

Then there are the covert operations of the secret government, that are sometimes backed by the monies from trafficking drugs.

The Polaris Project operates a human trafficking hotline. Calls come in from around the country.

Tackling stigma and discrimination are a priority, as elsewhere in the region, and efforts to reduce trafficking are critically important.

The organization recently held workshops for civil society and lawmakers on the various ways in which trafficking may occur.

United Nations report says there's increased instability and substance abuse in East Africa as a result of drug trafficking.

For trafficking to be wiped out, the low status of girls needs to be addressed through literacy and job programs and other efforts.

Enhanced vesicle trafficking is also essential for pollen tube elongation as many molecules must be translocated to the growing tip.

BEIJING: China executed three Japanese nationals on Friday after they were convicted of drug trafficking, the Supreme People's Court said.

The content of a large number of crimes related to illegal immigration, trafficking of children, drugs, explosives and etc.

Relationships between prison and street gangs, and possible relationships with foreign drug trafficking organizations studied.

Miller as an ambassador. But the real mystery is why most Democrats, liberals and feminist groups have been complacent on trafficking.

The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking describes it as a high-reward and low-risk crime.

She said many of the issues, such as combating child trafficking, will require stricter law enforcement and regional cooperation.

At the time, there were reports that Tu was killed after he threatened to expose alleged drug trafficking at the hotel.

While there remain some big business opportunities, like drug trafficking, they don't make as much money as before.

At present, the GA, ECOSOC, and UNODC have done a great deal of work in fighting global drug trafficking and have made much progress.

Intracellular viral trafficking pathways were investigated using confocal microscopy.

MPS officers in these BLOs have reportedly received training to help them better identify trafficking victims.

Attorney General Eric Holder locked horns with congressional Republicans at a hearing on a gun-trafficking case.

Drug abuse and illicit trafficking continue to have a profoundly negative impact on development and stability across the world.

It was a chance to forget the violence visited on Mexico by drug-trafficking gangs (see article).

But critics say this business sometimes seems like just another form of human trafficking.

He also runs a profitable family business of grain, but it is in fact to cover for his drug trafficking "business. "

Old-fashioned Marxists unmoved by the collapse of the Soviet Union, they have flourished since then by drug-trafficking and kidnapping.

Authorities have launched an investigation into possible child trafficking against the parents.

In Haiti , U. S. missionaries who said they only wanted to save orphaned children ended up arrested on child-trafficking charges .

The crime was horrific, but the distinction between trafficking and simple, sadistic child abuse might not be immediately obvious.

The criminal law is a patchwork: drug-trafficking is a federal crime, but kidnapping is a state matter.

Trafficking in narcotics and other contraband was the means to supplement budgets as Dai Li's activities and power grew.

However, the assessment said, some countries' efforts to fight trafficking have been inadequate.

He advocated more trade between the region and the United States, and promised new money to fight drug- trafficking.

Forum on a Global Human Rights Crisis: Sexual Exploitation, Worldwide Sex Trafficking, Sex Tourism and Prostitution.

China and United States are already cooperating closely on smuggling and China has taken a tough line against drug trafficking.

Iran's deputy prosecutor general said juveniles who were convicted of drug trafficking would have their death sentences commuted .

Well, her goal is to help raise money for victims of sex trafficking.

Trafficking victims found in the United States are afforded the same rights and benefits as refugees.

They have been charged with homicide, criminal conspiracy, illegal firearms possession and drug trafficking.

Taking office in December 2006 with a narrow mandate after a disputed election, he launched the army against violent drug-trafficking gangs.

Drug trafficking groups are believed to trace through the burned his body to block the police off track, but this way intimidate opponents.

West African countries should strengthen legislation and law enforcement, and crack down hard on international drug trafficking.

Since 2001, the department has annually published this comprehensive report on governments' efforts to stop trafficking.

Human trafficking is now the second-biggest criminal activity after arms dealing. It's more valuable than drugs.

"You do not build a culture on trafficking, " said France's culture minister, Frederic Mitterand, on May 5.

Drug trafficking and human trafficking, already thriving in tenuous security conditions, will "indirectly affect us all. "

Making money by drug trafficking is a jailbait , you can make a fortune over night but you will end up in jail sooner or later.

At present, the police have set up anti-drug patrol, special entertainment in the fight against drug use and drug trafficking offenses.

The mechanisms of intercellular trafficking of macromolecules via plasmodesmata are discussed.

The Iranian authorities argued that the executions are part of their effort to fight drug trafficking.

Sometimes, the profit margins are better than in trafficking narcotics.

However, although an opium revival may be inevitable, it may not automatically lead to a big increase in heroin trafficking.

In the State Department's 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report, North Korea was rated as a Tier 3 country, the least favorable rating.

Figures showed that Brazil, besides its growing role in the international drug trafficking, also witnessed growing consumption.

In combating the illicit trafficking of SALW, national governments shoulder the primary responsibilities.

The Rangoon journal Flower News journal reported this month that local brokers were involved with foreigners in trafficking Burmese women.

Singapore is proposing changes to its mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking and murder in some cases.

Diego Murillo is accused of drug trafficking and was arrested last month on murder charges.

PRM also works with governments, international and non-governmental organizations in the fight against trafficking in persons.

Most of the traditional methods of collecting data cannot be applied to new forms of crime such as trafficking in human beings.

Tackling the aftermath, however, can be even harder than cracking the trafficking gangs.

In the coming year, Polaris plans to strengthen its national policy program, which includes model anti-trafficking legislation for states.

Much of the drug trade is facilitated by trafficking and organized crime networks in Western China.

"The number one foreign country is Mexico, " says Tim Whittman, an expert on human trafficking with the U. S.

IT WAS long an island of tranquillity surrounded by countries racked by guerrillas and drug trafficking.

The United Kingdom has become a destination of choice for those who deal in the trafficking of young women from eastern Europe.

Law enforcement officers also acknowledge that the definitions of trafficking may need refining.

The report also notes concerns about possible increases in human trafficking for the sex trade in Germany during the World Cup.

Mr. Peng's case has elicited an outpouring of emotion. . Many comments demanded the death penalty for anyone caught trafficking children.

The Trafficking Protocol requires ratifying nations to criminalize human trafficking and help victims.

Recently, three anti-drug brigade public security organs cracked a strange that the drug trafficking case.

The crime of trafficking in people is a serious crime that infringes personal right and it has become a serious global problem at present.

The same drug-trafficking outfits that now supply crystal meth to the north-west can easily accommodate this shift in consumer demand.

This has played an important role in effectively reducing illicit trafficking of SALW, and enhancing regional peace and stability.

One possibility: Dreaming exercises brain by stimulating the trafficking of synapses between brain cells.

Tens of thousands of Mexican citizens in the capital Mexico City, 8 march protest against drug trafficking gang violence.

Trafficking in narcotics and taking addictive drugs are the first social problems of the world nowadays.

With this network, Nah is pushing local law enforcement to take more proactive steps in combating human trafficking.

Human trafficking is not allowed in the law of Ming Dynasty.

The police surmise a link between counterfeiting and drug trafficking.

The drivers of both trucks were turned over to magistrates on suspicion of drug trafficking.

The Proliferation Security Initiative is aimed at stopping the trafficking of weapons of massive destruction.

Since fiscal year 2001, the United States has funded more than $448 million for international anti-trafficking projects.

But the police read the law as entitling them to lock up all sex-workers, not help victims of trafficking.

Metropolitan police last week conducted raids on hospitals in Dhaka to seek evidence of involvement in organ trafficking.

Finally, there's the underground economy of little girls' sexuality: child sex trafficking and prostitution.

Organ trafficking often involves financial and physical exploitation.

But as the economic hub of west Africa, Nigeria has, inevitably, also become its drug-trafficking hub.

Officially, China has intensified efforts to combat cross-border trafficking, but aid agencies say the problem is growing.

Mira Sorvino: Trafficking is the worst kind of human depravity that you can imagine.

Would have the Justice Department prosecute Cuban officials implicated in the murder of Americans, drug trafficking and other crimes.

Some suggest that excess men leads to more crime and sexual violence; officials have warned of increased women trafficking.

When prostitution and trafficking overlap, the legal situation grows even more discouraging.

A decade ago it was overrun by cocaine-trafficking guerrillas and paramilitaries.

In turn, the trafficking ring engaged in stolen identities that could facilitate terrorist activities.

The task force investigates and prosecutes human trafficking and trains law enforcement officers.

Eg. The police took firm action to deal with the drug trafficking.

Singapore has some of the world's harshest anti-drug laws, requiring the death penalty for trafficking more than 15 grams of heroin.

Most of this trafficking involves the endoplasmic reticulum (or ER) and the golgi apparatus.

Drug-trafficking accounts for up to 20% of GDP, according to America's State Department.

He found America trafficking in subtle messages about simulations and degrees of reality.

Taiwan authorities greatly advanced efforts to prevent trafficking during the reporting period.

Previously, drug trafficking at least 15 vehicles burned, but also to the police station at least one shot.

Drug trafficking and gangs are major causes of insecurity amongst the African-American neighborhoods.

Yet they also opened a racially tinged rift between sentences for trafficking different types of cocaine.

In December, 82 of the state's civil and military police officers were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking and illegal gambling.

Federal police have arrested dozens of officials for trafficking in fraudulent logging licences.

Ugandan police are increasingly linking the sudden increase in cases to organ trafficking.

Partly to allay the previous American administration's concerns about trafficking, Cambodia in February 2008 outlawed prostitution.

Since 2002, Colombia has extradited more than 720 criminal suspects to the United States, mostly for drug trafficking.

They were suspected to be in connection with trafficking of dangerous drugs and other criminal offences such as murder and robbery.

There were widespread reports of trafficking in women and girls among refugees and workers crossing the border into China.

The South African Parliament enacted much tougher laws punishing sex trafficking and forced labor last month.

They were accused of corruption and drug trafficking and sentenced in absentia.

The group focuses on fighting terrorism, insurgent groups and narcotics trafficking in Central Asia.

Karzai -- whose government has been on shaky ground since winning a disputed election -- over corruption and drug trafficking.

Lecture topics ranged from sex trafficking and social justice to authority in the church and interfaith relations.

A child-trafficking scandal involving family planning officials in China's Hunan province sparked controversy around the country.

We are combating human trafficking, especially in women and girls, through domestic and international law enforcement.

Phalla added at an AIDS conference in Phnom Penh, "Enforcement of the anti-trafficking law harms the 100 percent condom use in brothels. "

A documentary maker and his camera man want to make a film on illegal migration and human trafficking in Iran.

New legislation in Switzerland is helping provide more assistance to trafficking victims.

Despite the efforts of local and international anti-trafficking groups, the problem is growing in Southeast Asia.

The police charged a 42-year-old man, Derwin Smith, with human trafficking and false imprisonment in connection with the case.

Chemokines are chemotactic cytokines that can direct cells trafficking, conducting their functions via chemokine receptors.

Tier Three is for governments that fail to make serious efforts to enforce laws against trafficking and to protect victims .

Qatar has created the National Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons and boosted labor camp inspections.

Since the 20th century, 80 years, the increasing worldwide spread of drug abuse, drug trafficking is getting worse.

Making money by drug trafficking is a jailbait ; you can make a fortune over night but you will end up in jail sonner or later.

With the illegal harvesting, organ trafficking case held a hearing on the 14th, people were shocked at the relentless organ theft.

A top UN official has predicted a boom in human trafficking is coming, fuelled by the market meltdown.

But interior ministers, fearful of organised crime and drug- and people-trafficking, refuse to agree.

IT IS the middle of August, traditionally the height of the Mediterranean's migrant-trafficking season.

But in its responses to drug-trafficking and organised crime that ideal has been severely weakened.

She says most of the victims of human trafficking come from economically troubled countries.

International anti-trafficking agencies say women are brought to China from Russia, Mongolia and the Ukraine.

Even with NATO troops in Afghanistan, Russian experts allege that drug trafficking has exploded.

A technician was sentenced to six weeks imprisonment for trafficking in dangerous drugs inside a disco .

In and out of trouble with the law, he went to prison in 1990 for aggravated cocaine trafficking.

The United Nations aimed the spotlight on human trafficking Tuesday.

The 2003 crackdown drove up prices, smashed trafficking networks and forced addicts into rehabilitation programmes.

Their capital comes from illicit activities like drug-trafficking and kidnapping.

Drug smuggling, human trafficking and other transnational crime rampant, impeding the normal development of the State.

There's a lot more gang activity on the streets and a lot more cases of trafficking.

Manta was used by American AWACS for the surveillance of drug trafficking in the eastern Pacific.

In some places, drug trafficking, terror and triad trinity, has constituted the factors that undermine the stability of the country.

This points to the difficulty of fighting arms trafficking by focusing on the gun shops themselves.

Japan remains a destination country for many victims of human trafficking, the vast majority for prostitution.

He stands accused not only of "violent control over the heroin and narcotics trade" but of trafficking in human organs.

In Washington, the Polaris Project sees sex trafficking victims who are U. S. citizens, and women from South Korea, China and Latin America.

Most of the executions in Iran this year have been for drug trafficking.

They allegedly formed a cell of a trafficking organization called the South Pacific Cartel, or CPS, headed by fugitive Hector Beltran Leyva.

Iran now for murder, rape, armed robbery, drug trafficking and adultery implement crackdown, many people have been sentenced to death.

In Scotland, for instance, there were two different legal definitions for trafficking.

He had already completed a 17-year sentence in Miami for drug-trafficking and racketeering.

The turmoil of war and drug-trafficking, displacement and emigration, has remapped the country since Gabo's heyday.

Will continued criminalization of drug users help stop trafficking and drug use, or is there another way out?

When narco-trafficking and corruption threaten democracy in Latin America, it's America's problem too.

Countries are divided into three groups, or tiers , based on how well they meet the requirements of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act.

He had been convicted of drug trafficking.

Unlike some human rights abuses which are primarily regional, sex trafficking is global in nature.

The Government of Mexico announced the same day, police arrested a drug trafficking syndicate State of Morelos leader.

Nine were detained in the cities of Marseille and Avignon on suspicion of arms and explosives trafficking.

Second, the debate about sex work has become drowned in a campaign against human trafficking.

But the current trafficking from Mexico and Central America is of special concern for CdeBaca.

I think our current trafficking women, children, the object has obvious limitation limits, no human trafficking sin.

They were arrested for trafficking in the eggs of protected species of birds.

We're seeking significant funding increases for programs to prevent nuclear proliferation and trafficking.

Our Client claims they're behind a prostitution ring trafficking in boys and girls from Eastern Europe.