Maritime dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia) for Peter Tomka‚ President of TheInternational Court of Justice Submitted by Liz Daniela Cabezas December 5‚ 2012 Cover Memo To: Peter Tomka‚ President of the International Court of Justice From: Liz Daniela cabezas Date: 28 November 2012 Re: Territorial and maritime dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia) Mr. Tomka Here is the summary of the court case Nicaragua v. Colombia. The report includes the submission
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Cause and Effects Of Human Trafficking 27million adults and 13million children are being trafficked worldwide. Human trafficking has become a multibillion crime enterprise‚ second to drug and arms dealing. Human trafficking is the recruitment‚ smuggling or receipt of persons by means of violence or other means of fraud‚ abuse authority or receiving benefits to control over a person for the purpose of exploitation (The United Nation n.d.). The roots of human trafficking lies in its high demand‚
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Drug War Statistics To Sum this up I’ve gathered some information not well information to show the damage does to our society the economic failure from of America’s “War on Drugs”: There is a drug arrest every 19 seconds in the U.S. Of the more than 1.6 million drug arrests in 2009‚ 82 percent were for possession alone. The U.S. government estimates that more than 118 million Americans above the age of 12 (47 percent of the population) admit to using illegal drugs. One out of every
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The use of and abuse of illegal and prescription drugs are a health‚ social‚ and law enforcement problem that is affecting Americans across the country. Drug abuse is destroying the lives of many teens and adults and is also destroying families in the United States. The use of drugs is a major problem in the United States among all Americans‚ but drug addiction is the main cause for America ’s troubled teens today. Exactly what is a drug? A drug is any chemical that produces a therapeutic or non-therapeutic
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Midterm Essay: Sex Trafficking Introduction Many people realize that sex trafficking is a problem throughout the world especially in third world countries‚ but many do not know that it is a concerning issue in the United States as well. There are individuals in American who live in their own world and do not realize that sex trafficking happens everyday and potentially close to where he or she lives. In the documentary “In Plain Sight” it informs the viewers that 80% of sex trafficking victims are from
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time for drug related chargers made up almost 50% of sentenced prisoners under federal jurisdiction. With the highest amount of drug related incarnations‚ The United States has a staggering 6.8 million Americans struggling with drug abuse. It is without doubt that the prison population is driven largely by incarceration for drug offenses. It is often argued whether the punishment fits the crime‚ and often questioned if the government is wasting money on prisoners incarcerated for drug related offenses
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S P D I S C U S S I O N PA P E R Summary Findings Human trafficking‚ as it is defined by international law‚ subsumes all forms of nonconsensual exploitation. That is‚ whenever people are forced or lured into exploitation – no matter if movement of victims is involved – it is considered human trafficking. There is‚ though‚ a large overlap with consensual exploitation‚ namely when economic vulnerabilities force victims to accept exploitative work arrangements. Consensual exploitation is mostly
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SEX TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN IN PAKISTAN What is child trafficking? The recruitment‚ transportation‚ transfer‚ harbouring or receipt of a child for the purpose of exploitation. What’s the problem? GLOBAL SEX TRAFFICKING Human trafficking is a complex phenomenon fueled by the tremendous growth in the global sex market. Exploitation is driven by poverty‚ uneven development‚ official corruption‚ gender discrimination‚ harmful traditional and cultural practices‚ civil unrest‚ natural disasters and
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Drugs in Sport The use of drugs in sports goes back a long-long time‚ in fact back to the original Olympics held from 776 to 393 BC. Old texts suggest that humans were always trying to find ways to do more work with less effort (work hard but suffer less). This caused them to find‚ invent & use drugs or supplements. Thus people began using drugs & performance enhancers. Doping is the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport‚ it is illegal‚ but the use of drugs completely isn’t. That
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study The Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children‚ Child Prostitution and Child Pornography to the Convention on the Rights of the Child defines child prostitution as a commercial sexual exploitation of children whereby a child sells his or her body for sexual activities in return for remuneration or any other form of benefit provided to the prostitute or to another person (United Nations General Assembly‚ 2000). According to worldwide
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