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This, like money laundering by criminal organizations, is obviously illegal (as well as morally reprehensible).
At the same time, it has allowed farmers across China to fall victim to an epidemic of illegal land grabs by local governments and developers.
But what is alleged to have happened was not a case of the US reciprocally countering supposed illegal activities by other states.
It was hostile and illegal activity by the US directed against the EU itself.
Such practices, illegal as practiced by Bernard Madoff, are functionally equivalent to what happens during an asset-price bubble.
But some organizations campaigning against trafficking understand that when sex work is illegal, it is much riskier for sex workers to complain to the authorities when they are enslaved, beaten, or cheated.
Policymakers should maximize migration’s economic benefits; facilitate legal channels so that migrants don’t choose illegal alternatives; reduce barriers for employment and remittances; manage irregular migration flows; and protect migrants’ safety, especially in war zones or when migration reaches crisis levels, as it has this year.
In any civilized society, ignorance is not illegal and being moralistic is anybody’s inherent privilege.
The fresh wave of anti-gay legislation in Nigeria and Uganda (according to Amnesty International, homosexuality is illegal in 38 of 54 African countries) follows the recent embrace of official repression of homosexuality elsewhere.
They eventually also criminalized “attempting” sodomy, and even “conspiring” to commit sodomy, as in the notorious Labouchere Amendment, passed in 1885 in Britain, which made it illegal for one gay man to introduce another to a third, if the introduction led to a liaison.
Labor leaders are often charged with "organizing an illegal procession" or "disturbing the social order."
Dissidents who attempt to fund their activities by conducting private business sometimes find themselves jailed for economic crimes like fraud and illegal publishing.
Churning this turmoil into frenzy is the illegal drug trade.
Although drug money plays a defining role in these rebellions, putting the blame solely on illegal narcotics is wrong.
But if parties are not state-supported, they must find funds through channels that are often dubious, when not illegal.
The criminal investigations launched recently into illegal spending by Johnson’s official Leave campaign, and allegations of Russian funding for former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage’s parallel campaign further justify a final referendum.
And his crackdown on illegal immigration and ban on travelers from predominantly Muslim countries signals his commitment to a “pure” American nation.
Nor has the US said that it would end the tariffs if the Chinese rescinded their illegal technology-transfer requirement.
This would include the Chinese policy of requiring US firms to transfer technology to Chinese partners as a condition of doing business in China, as well as the Chinese practice of taking technology directly from US firms through cyber espionage and other illegal methods.
Putin’s Imperial Road to Economic RuinPARIS – The debate around Crimea is no longer centered on international law: Russian President Vladimir Putin has publicly recognized that he does not feel bound by it and does not care if the rest of the world deems Russia’s actions illegal.
Likewise, stories of illegal or unethical labor practices – for example, among Apple suppliers in China – have inspired companies to take a close look at their supply chains.
As with unfair or illegal labor practices, businesses must refuse to sponsor, supply, or work with organizations that fail to protect their workers from sexual abuse.
The US government, however, endorsed the justice’s illegal removal, seeing the court’s insistence on constitutional accountability for Musharraf as complicating its regional objectives.
What has been uncovered thus far ranges from legal but ethically suspect use of tax loopholes to efforts to stash or launder money gained through corruption or other illegal activities.
Moreover, the EU has long fought in the World Trade Organization to make VERs illegal.
Now, with an ongoing refugee crisis, Russia’s occupation of eastern Ukraine and illegal annexation of Crimea, and the threat of British withdrawal from the European Union, 2016 may become, by necessity, another “year of Europe” for American diplomacy.
Sarkozy has boasted that he expelled tens of thousands of illegal immigrants when he was interior minister, and in 2005 he referred to Muslim rioters in the suburbs as “scum.”
Flyers advertising illegal abortions dot the country, including at the entrances to the National Department of Health, in Pretoria.
Reports on peasant and worker demonstrations against corrupt officials and illegal property confiscations have been banned.
Moreover, it undermines the logic of deterrence by making the “threat of use” illegal.
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