Alas‚ no gender‚ age‚ nor ethnicity is exempt from the global crisis of human trafficking. However‚ the victims are not dispersed evenly throughout the planet. The International Labour Organization (ILO) has concluded that the over half of all trafficked persons‚ for a total of 11.7 million slaves‚ come from the Asia-Pacific region. Meanwhile‚ the highest rates of people trafficked per thousand inhabitants exists in Central and Southeastern Europe (depicted in light blue) and Africa regions (depicted
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is that there are still many people being used for forced labor and sex illegally in the United States and across the world today. It has become an increasing problem in the last ten years‚ and the numbers are growing every day. According to the Polaris project in 2007‚ 27 million was the number of people being forced in this modern day slavery‚ with 80 percent being women and children‚ and with an average age of 12 to 14 years. Of the female slave victims‚ 70 percent are used for sexual exploitation
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What do you think when you hear the words slavery or human trafficking? Some may envision a young Asian boy working in sweatshops for 12 hours or a young African girl being sold‚ forced to have sexual relations with God knows how many men. Yes‚ these are common forms of slavery and trafficking that happen in every country in our world everyday. Human trafficking is defined as the recruitment‚ transportation‚ transfer‚ harbouring or receipt of persons‚ by means of threat or use of force or other forms
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Cloud Computing for Libraries: A SWOT Analysis 8th Convention PLANNER 2012 Cloud Computing for Libraries: A SWOT Analysis Miteshkumar Pandya Abstract This paper provides brief information on cloud computing and its application for libraries. Adoption of cloud computing is not an easy task for Indian libraries. This paper provides some basic idea to choose evaluate Cloud service for the library. The advantages‚ disadvantages and features needs to be seriously considered before putting data
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trafficking is a modern day form of slavery. Human trafficking refers to the movement of persons across borders for forced labor‚ sexual exploitation or other illicit activities. Sex trafficking is the most lucrative sector of human trafficking (Polaris Project‚ 2003). Women smuggled into the U.S come primarily from Latin America‚ Southeast Asia‚ East Asia‚ Eastern Europe‚ and Russia. The global political economy‚ political corruption‚ human rights‚ gender and ethnic stratification‚ and migration
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growing at close to ten times the industry rate. Victory is the motorcycle division of Polaris Industries that is more commonly known for its ATV’s and snowmobiles. "People who choose to ride our bikes love them - it ’s something we ’ve known for a long time - and we ’re happy this information is finally public." said Mark Blackwell‚ Vice President of Victory Motorcycles and International Operations for Polaris Industries. Black well goes on to state that more consumers desire an American heavyweight
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The north-south lines represent lines of longitude while the east-west lines represent lines of latitude. The Prime Meridian and the International Date Line are both important lines of longitude‚ the first divides the planet into the western and eastern hemisphere at 0 degrees while the second is located at 180 degrees and separates two calendar dates. The equator‚ the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn are the three most important lines of latitude. The Equator is located at o degrees
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motorcycles‚ competes as part of the “Recreational Vehicles” industry. Winnebago‚ Polaris‚ Thor‚ Arctic Cat‚ and Marine Products are just some of the companies that also compete under Recreational Vehicles‚ but these companies dominate the industry comprising of 92% of the market share. These 5 companies specialize in manufacturing boats‚ jet skis‚ snow mobiles‚ and terrain vehicles such as four-wheelers‚ Polaris being the only company that even produces a motorcycle. Although Harley is categorized
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control over a person for the purpose of exploitation (The United Nation n.d.). The roots of human trafficking lies in its high demand‚ the low risk nature of the job and the mentality of society. Humans are highly profitable as forced labourer (Polaris Japan‚ 2012). Forced labour is an all work service which is exhausted from any person under cruelty‚ where the individual is unwilling to perform voluntarily (C29 Forced Labour Convention‚ 1930). Major forms of forced labourer are commercial sexual
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REVIEW ASTRONOMY 152 EXAM 1 Chapter 1 (lecture #1) Light Year & Astronomical Unit (AU) are distances (pgs 4 & 5) know relative sizes of things: moon‚ planet‚ star‚ solar system‚ local group of stars‚ spiral arm‚ Milkyway/galaxy‚ clusters of galaxies‚ super clusters‚ filaments and voids (pgs 5 & 6) Chapter 2 (lectures #2 & 3) Constellations -stars of a constellation may be at very different distances Ancient times constellations loose grouping of stars based on mythology Now constellations
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