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In 2000, he abandoned his studies at Beijing University when he learned that thousands of Henan peasants were dying from AIDS after having sold their blood to local
traffickers.
What they do is aggravate the dangers migrants face on their journey and benefit the smugglers who prey on them; last year alone, human
traffickers
earned $5-6 billion from migrants crossing into Europe.
The only beneficiaries are the human
traffickers
that charge Syrian refugees some €6,000 for space in a dangerous boat or freighter.
One unexpected source of wealth that could play a large role is the world’s huge supply of dirty money: multinational companies’ undeclared profits, the proceeds of corruption, and the earnings of
traffickers
of drugs, weapons, and people – all of which is stashed away in offshore bank accounts, companies, and trusts.
Karzai’s pardoning of drug
traffickers
with indirect ties to his re-election campaign also raised fundamental questions about his government’s commitment to the rule of law.
Since Mexico closed its air space to drug traffickers’ planes from Colombia and Venezuela, Guatemala’s coasts and highways have become crucial to the trade, with local, Mexican, and Colombian
traffickers
fighting for control.
In El Salvador, drug
traffickers
have a smaller presence (the country is not exactly a route to the north), and the country’s armed gangs have a different origin: Los Angeles.
They are vulnerable not only to the elements, but also to smugglers, traffickers, and other criminals seeking to take advantage of their vulnerability.
Colombia is no longer seen as a problem country whose neighbors fear destabilization from its guerrillas and narcotics
traffickers.
Colombia maintains close ties with the US, which has provided $6 billion in aid over the past ten years – almost all of it coming in the form of military assistance – to strengthen the government’s ability to confront the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and drug
traffickers.
Ecuador and Venezuela, interested in putting the conflict behind them, began to participate in operations against illegal groups – leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitary forces, and drug
traffickers
– that use their frontiers to elude Colombia’s armed forces.
(The losers generally are bad actors: smugglers, traffickers, abusive recruiters, and exploitative employers.)
Internationally, concern has been growing about Jokowi's stated determination to allow – after a long moratorium – the executions of scores of convicted drug
traffickers
to proceed.
Two Australian drug
traffickers
have been scheduled for execution this month.
The Balkan
traffickers
in drugs, arms, women, and refugees - the underground criminal trades that fund the terrorists - can be closed down.
There is evidence that mobile phones, social media, instant messaging, and other modern forms of communication have given
traffickers
new tools for recruitment, coercion, and exploitation.
Human
traffickers
benefit from their victims’ lack of knowledge about working conditions in other countries and their ignorance of their rights while abroad.
Better marketing strategies and improved privacy protection, for example, might just help apps reach their intended targets, enabling them to avoid or even break free from the coercive control of human
traffickers.
As 60 others scrambled to escape, the human
traffickers
carrying them to Europe stabbed them and threw them into the sea off the coast of Lampedusa.
More recently, some 500 migrants died off the coast of Malta, when a group of human
traffickers
responded to the passengers’ refusal to move onto smaller vessels by deliberately ramming the boat that had carried them from Egypt.
This would result in fewer asylum-seekers making life-threatening voyages that leave their families deeply indebted – human
traffickers
charge as much as €15,000 ($19,700) to cross the Mediterranean – only to be turned away.
Because
traffickers
can easily prey amid chaos, children in conflict zones are particularly vulnerable.
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 paradoxically reinforced the US military’s focus on countering illicit drug
traffickers.
Moreover, the cultivation, processing, and trafficking of cocaine and heroin continues throughout the Andean Ridge, despite tough eradication measures and extradition of
traffickers
by the US.
Experience in other parts of the world has shown that alternatives to prison for nonviolent, minor drug offenses can lead to better health and law-enforcement outcomes, as drug users are steered to the services they need and police, freed from chasing low-level offenders, can pursue major
traffickers.
We ignore failing states at our peril, because anarchy creates an environment conducive to extremist ideologies and can offer a haven for terrorists, criminals, and drug
traffickers.
As long as the “war on drugs” remains good business not only for
traffickers
and money launderers, but also for developed countries’ arms industry, the flood of weapons in the region will continue to fuel violence – including extreme manifestations against women – and weaken the judicial system.
We already have made significant progress on several migration-related fronts – for example, in prosecuting human
traffickers.
The Modi government is targeting the “black money” associated with tax evasion, corruption, and counterfeiting, and thus the drug traffickers, smugglers, and terrorists who engage in those activities.
Protections for labor could be improved as well, by guaranteeing workers’ right to form independent unions, banning child labor, and strengthening enforcement against human
traffickers.
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