Latest Smuggling Stories

redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A 38-year-old man from Thailand was arrested at the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok for attempting to smuggle critically endangered tortoises out of the country. Actually, that’s a bit of an understatement. According to Gizmodo’s Andrew Liszewski, the Bangkok authorities found the man – whom they believe to be part of a global smuggling ring – attempting to make off with 54 ploughshare tortoises in a...

75 PERCENT OF TEENS SAY PICTURES OF TEENS PARTYING WITH ALCOHOL, MARIJUANA ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ENCOURAGES TEENS TO WANT TO DO THE SAME WASHINGTON, Aug. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nearly 9 out of 10 (86 percent) of American high-school students say that some classmates are drugging, drinking and smoking during the school day, according to the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XVII: Teens, the 17th annual back-to-school survey conducted...

WASHINGTON, July 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Global Strategic Communications Group: A former official of the U.S. Department of State has called for Joris Demmink, Secretary-General of the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice, to be barred from entry to the United States until he has answered accusations of child rape in a court of law. In a UPI "Outside View" column, Anthony T. Salvia, former special adviser to the U.S. Under Secretary...

WASHINGTON, July 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Mexican election has put the Drug War in limbo, ex-White House Drug Policy spokesman Robert Weiner is saying today, joined by Latin American policy analyst George Clingan. Weiner and Clingan say in an oped in the Arizona Republic today entitled, "U.S. Must Boost Drug-War Aid to Stop the Cartels," that President-Elect of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, elected Sunday and taking office December 1, has stated he will 'change'...

WASHINGTON, July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by the Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs: NIJ Studies Examine Preventing and Prosecuting Human Trafficking - Two recent studies sponsored by the Office of Justice Programs' National Institute of Justice explore the prevention and successful prosecution of human trafficking cases centered on prostitution. The first, A National Overview of Prostitution and Sex Trafficking Demand...

Blood diamonds may get the most attention. But they are not the only minerals sold on the world market to finance wars and other conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa, according to an article in the current issue of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The story, by C&EN Senior Editor Celia Henry Arnaud, focuses on minerals being mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and...

Massive Spending, Limited Impact, and Humanitarian Crisis WASHINGTON, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and Mexico's College of the Northern Border (COLEF) released "Beyond the Border Buildup: Security and Migrants along the U.S.-Mexico Border," a year-long study on the impact of both countries' security policies on migration. The study finds a dramatic buildup of U.S. security forces along the southern border--a...

IJM celebrates 15 years - opens 15th field office in Pampanga, the Philippines with commitment to reduce availability of children for sex in region by 40 percent by 2015 WASHINGTON, April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- International Justice Mission (IJM), a human rights agency that secures rescue for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression, announced today it will open its 15th field office in Pampanga - its third field office in the...

ATLANTA, April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Womenetics, a media company working for positive global change, will host a Chicago conference on May 9, 2012 at The Metropolitan Club entitled: "Our World Today: Human Trafficking and the Impact on Your Business - What You Can't Afford Not to Know." Representatives from leading companies, world policy experts, Chicago-based thought leaders and legal advocates will meet to examine ways to reduce human trafficking and end commercial sexual...

WASHINGTON, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Commission on Civil Rights will hold a public briefing on Friday, April 13, 2012 at 9:30 AM ET to hear testimony on the effectiveness of federal enforcement of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA). The briefing will take place at Commission headquarters, 624 9th St. NW, Washington, DC 20425, 5th floor conference room. Interested persons are invited to attend, and no reservation is necessary....