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And without economic security, some young people will resort to illegal activities, or fall prey to extremist groups exploiting their desperation.
Twitter’s censors have even hit the heart of Europe; in January, a German satire magazine was blocked from the platform after the Bundestag enacted legislation imposing fines of up to €50 million ($61 million) on social media firms that fail to remove illegal content in a timely manner.
The mission of CITES is to prevent illegal wildlife trafficking and illicit trade in endangered and protected species.
Until now, Bitcoin’s only real use has been to facilitate illegal activities such as drug transactions, tax evasion, avoidance of capital controls, or money laundering.
Nowhere is this better illustrated than in America’s current debate over illegal immigration.
Unless and until Israel pays a heavy price for its illegal activities in the occupied territories, it is hard to imagine a successful peace process taking shape.
Last year, a combination of substitution efforts, inventory drawdowns, reduced usage, and illegal Chinese exports meant that up to 8,000 tons of China’s export quotas were left unused.
The troika could then have pressed the flesh with China’s leaders and made an offer that they would have found difficult to refuse – including, for example, sustainable mining technologies to address the environmental costs of extraction, or the development of a certification scheme to help prevent the illegal smuggling of rare earths.
Although possessing these weapons of mass destruction is technically not illegal, most states are parties to the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, which Syria has refused to sign.
Should the immigration minister be judged according to the number of illegal immigrants expelled?
The Kremlin invaded a neighbor, an illegal act of aggression that violates the UN Charter and fundamental principles of cooperation and security in Europe.
Most of these protests stem from acts by local officials that were already clearly illegal under existing Chinese law.
According to China’s Ministry of Land Resources, there were more than 90,000 cases of illegal land transfers last year, yet there were precious few prosecutions.
And, unlike oil exports, which are encumbered by massive debts to China and others, the proceeds from the illegal drug exports are by nature unencumbered, except in rare instances of seizure.
In the name of the “global war on terror,” they have tolerated torture; accepted – and even endorsed – the illegal invasion of Iraq; and allowed innocent civilians to become collateral damage of mechanical drone strikes.
In February, Khatami’s government cracked down on illegal oil shipments through Iranian waters that were earning Baghdad hundreds of millions of dollars.
By mid-March, over half of these illegal shipments were stopped.
Even in the 1930’s, most banks failed as a result of bad management and illegal activity, as is true today.
Given the new political realities in Egypt, Tunisia, and the Palestinian territories, as well as in Lebanon, Libya, and elsewhere, the more important of these actors are no longer secret or illegal organizations.
In recent years, local-level protests – opposing everything from poor working conditions to illegal logging, land grabs, and environmentally or socially damaging infrastructure projects – have proliferated.
And yet criminal networks – entrenched relationships between legal and illegal agents engaged in organized criminal activities – continue to play a large role in these countries’ formal and informal economies and political institutions, rending the social fabric and threatening further progress.
The totality is based on a series of complex relationships that connect legal and illegal worlds, including politicians, judges, and prosecutors who are willing to alter sentences for money; policemen and military personnel involved in illegal activities; and businessmen who launder money.
The strength of these criminal networks rests on people and organizations – present at all levels of society – that engage with illegal markets when convenient.
Incomes produced by these illegal markets are huge, competing in size with Latin America’s most successful legal commodities.
Expansion of criminal networks occurs not only across borders; illegal markets have grown inside countries as well.
Likewise, extortion is growing in Central America, and illegal mining is a prosperous business in Colombia, with gold becoming the new cocaine – easy to market and with lower risk.
Moreover, the authorities have limited power to intercept vessels suspected of illegal activity.
As a result, international cooperation to counter illegal fishing, smuggling of weapons and drugs, human trafficking, piracy, and the use of vessels in terrorist operations has been greatly hampered.
Moreover, to eliminate illegal fishing, which strips our oceans of marine life, we are calling for mandatory identification numbers and the tracking of all high-seas fishing vessels, and a total ban on transshipment at sea.
Following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, and further Russian revanchism in eastern Ukraine, relations with Putin’s Kremlin need to be reconsidered.
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