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Mexico Wages War On Organized Crime: President Felipe Calderon’s anti-cartel strategy reduces drug

Mexico Wages War On Organized Crime: President Felipe Calderon’s anti-cartel strategy reduces drug(0)

March 4, 2009

By Roberto Pesquera
With around 5,000 deaths, last year was the bloodiest on record in Mexico’s organized crime war. The origins of the conflict can be dated from the early 80’s, when drug cartels began their international corporate business and expanded their operations from planting cannabis to serving as brokers facilitating the trafficking of drugs from [...]

Mexico Wages War On Organized Crime: President Felipe Calderon’s anti-cartel strategy reduces drug
“If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Then Nothing Is Wrong”: UN Report reveals progress in battle against human trafficking

“If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Then Nothing Is Wrong”: UN Report reveals progress in battle against human trafficking

By Martyne Aime
Sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, and slavery were the words of the day at the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) conference, “Exposing Denial and Benign Neglect.” Held on February 12, 2009, at UN Headquarters in New York, the conference unveiled the findings of the UNODC’s 2009 “Global Report on Trafficking of Persons,” [...]

Human Trafficking and Slave Labor: A Pervasive Humanitarian Problem

Human Trafficking and Slave Labor: A Pervasive Humanitarian Problem

By Anna Claire Frumes
Hadijatou Mani is a 24-year old West-African mother who until last year had been a slave her whole life. Tatiana, from Ukraine, was forced into a brothel at the age of 20. Zarmina, a 15-year old Afghani girl, was sold into slavery and later into prostitution. The stories of these three women’s [...]

Professor Salame’s Delay Disrupts SIPA Courses

Professor Salame’s Delay Disrupts SIPA Courses

By Omar Kasrawi
By week six of the spring semester most students at SIPA have settled into their daily routines and begun preparing for their midterm examinations. However, a group of 69 students had up until last Monday night been wondering whether two of their courses would begin because their professor had not yet received his [...]


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