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Another major impediment to the flow of remittances reaching the family is the large and exorbitant and illegal cost of recruitment, fees that migrants pay, migrant workers pay to laborers who found them the job.

However, Afghanistan does have a legal system, and while jirgas are built on long-standing tribal customs, even in jirgas, laws are supposed to be followed, and it goes without saying that giving a child to satisfy a debt is not only grossly immoral, it's illegal.

And within these conversations, I started hearing the connections between the businesses and the people, and how laws that were meant to protect them were being underused, while gross and illegal punitive measures were overused.

And at the end of this jirga, it was ordered by the judge that the first decision was erased, and that the $2,500 debt was satisfied, and we all signed a written order where all the men acknowledged that what they did was illegal, and if they did it again, that they would go to prison.

We need to make illegal drugs legal.

We don't want gangsters and guerrillas funded with illegal drug money terrorizing and taking over other nations.

In the late 19th century, when most of the drugs that are now illegal were legal, the principal consumers of opiates in my country and others were middle-aged white women, using them to alleviate aches and pains when few other analgesics were available.

Look at Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, England, where people who have been addicted to heroin for many years and repeatedly tried to quit and failed can get pharmaceutical heroin and helping services in medical clinics, and the results are in: Illegal drug abuse and disease and overdoses and crime and arrests all go down, health and well-being improve, taxpayers benefit, and many drug users even put their addictions behind them.

Now, could we reduce smoking even more by making it totally illegal?

To the north, we have illegal gold mining, also from the east, from Brazil.

We see illegal logging coming from the south, and drug runners are trying to move through the park and get into Brazil.

This also allows us to make a big operation to seize corruption and illegal activities that ended up having 700 people in prison, including a lot of public servants.

Then we made the connection that areas that have been doing illegal deforestation should not get any kind of credit or finance.

So supermarkets, the slaughterhouses, and so on that buy products from illegal clear-cut areas, they also can be liable for the deforestation.

They spend most of their time rehabilitating gibbons, but they also have to spend a lot of their time protecting their area from illegal logging that takes place on the side.

They had three full-time guards who were posted around this sanctuary whose job was in fact to guard against illegal logging, and one day, we went walking, again as tourists, out into the forest, and within five minutes' walk, we stumbled upon somebody who was just sawing a tree down, five minutes' walk, a few hundred meters from the ranger station.

So how do we stop illegal logging?

Also, according to Interpol, as much as 90 percent of the logging that takes place in the rainforest is illegal logging, like the illegal logging that we saw.

Well, to test it, we took it back to Indonesia, not the same place, but another place, to another gibbon reserve that was threatened daily by illegal logging.

On the very second day, it picked up illegal chainsaw noises.

In 1975, 13 years from startup, equal opportunity legislation came in in Britain and that made it illegal to have our pro-female policies.

We've got to make all this violence against the poor illegal.

Now whether you look at this and think, "Oh, that's a charming urban affectation," or you look at it and say, "That's illegal abuse of property," the one thing I think we can all agree on is that you cannot read it.

For every male arrested for illegal sex trade, 25 women are arrested in the United States of America.

At last report, Atlanta's illegal sex trade has generated up to 290 million dollars a year.

That's more money that the city's illegal gun and drug trade combined.

Little wonder, then, that it's a natural place to go for anybody with something to hide, and that something, of course, need not be illegal.

But you'll also find the drugs markets, illegal pornography, commercial hacking services, and much more besides.

It's also good news if you want to browse for illegal pornography and if you want to buy and sell drugs with impunity.

Such makeshift settlements are considered illegal, and therefore those living in them don't have a chance of making their voices heard.

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