NORTH KOREAN GIRLS ESCAPE TO SLAVERY
Another perspective on the earlier post, which gave the impression that the traffickers were benevolent. It didnt seem terribly likely when I read it, but I didnt expect to read the downside so soon!
Another perspective on the earlier post, which gave the impression that the traffickers were benevolent. It didnt seem terribly likely when I read it, but I didnt expect to read the downside so soon!
Paper submissions are invited for the 22nd World Congress of Political Science in Madrid, 8-12 July 2012. Reshaping Power, Shifting Boundaries In a globalising world, everywhere power is being reconfigured, creating opportunities for change: New players are emerging on the world stage, reflected in G-20, the ‘BRICs’ and in North-South relations. Climate change and the … 22ND WORLD CONGRESS OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, IPSA, MADRID, 8-12 JULY, 2012
Arrests in Bologna and Lecce. Aimed at Puglia mafias.
Here in Ohrid on the Summer School, we are listening to a presentation by a senior Belgian Police officer on the crime situation in the Balkans, particularly Kosovo. For all of you who couldn’t make it, here’s a background paper. We went as a group to a restaurant called Chun last night. The combination of … HUMAN SECURITY, ORGANIZED CRIME AND TERRORISM CHALLENGES IN KOSOVO’S PERSPECTIVE
A bit more background to today’s presentation.
Interesting piece on ‘ndrangheta and its alleged reconstruction of the international drug trade…
The Interdisciplinary Political Studies (IdPS www.idps.unisi.it) invites original contributions for its Special Issue on Transnational Crime to be published in February 2012. The deadline for submissions is 14 October, 2011.
Your blogger is at the SGOC Summer School on Organised Crime in Ohrid, Macedonia. Having asked for volunteers to help with the blog and newsletter, he has created a Facebook Group to enhance communication. Apparently, if he learns Tweetdeck, he can integrate various net presences….Tomorrow?
Your blogger took part in Professor Francesco Longo’s Jean Monnet workshop on The EU policy on organised crime between Stockholm and Lisbon just ahead of leaving for the Summer School in Macedonia. There are links to project documents on the left of this webpage
Guardian correspondent seems to have got a lot more info than the independent piece yesterday.