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Role Of The World Bank And Imf In Issuing Loans To Russia: Responsibility, Tricks, Corruption, Mafia, And Important Use Of Legal Enforcement, Elmira A. Makova Dec 2005

Role Of The World Bank And Imf In Issuing Loans To Russia: Responsibility, Tricks, Corruption, Mafia, And Important Use Of Legal Enforcement, Elmira A. Makova

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The World Bank and the IMF are among the most important international organizations globally promoting economic stability, growth, free trade, and poverty reduction by financing a widevariety of projects. The policies governing their activities have universal impact. The purpose of this study is to unfold flaws and failures of the multilateral institutions' activities toward financing Russia during a transitional period, leading to dangerous worldwide corruption, money laundering, fraud, and misuse of international funds by the Russian Government. The result of such misuse was increased poverty in Russia, lost belief in the fairness of Governmentalinstitutions, the rule of law and justice, …


Protection Of Children From Exploitation In West Africa: Illusion Or Reality?, Afua Brown-Eyeson Dec 2004

Protection Of Children From Exploitation In West Africa: Illusion Or Reality?, Afua Brown-Eyeson

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This thesis analyses the implementation of the main international and regional conventions, which guarantees the protection of children s rights and their effectiveness in combating the issue of child trafficking in West Africa. This paper examines both internal and external child trafficking and some of the causes of this menace. The thesis argues that the international and regional conventions, regardless of their efforts to protect the rights of the children, have failed to achieve their purpose especially in the sub­region. In summary, this paper concludes that unless the issue of poverty, which is the underlying factor in the exploitation of …


Cybercrime, Karissa Ayala May 2004

Cybercrime, Karissa Ayala

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As the new information age develops and grows in all areas of communication technologies, it imposes new challenges to the legal system in protecting individuals and companies. These new challenges are the result of the Internet increase in scope and complexity. While society is receiving great benefits from the Internet, they are also confronting a new type of crime, cyber crime. Cyber crime includes a wide variety of illegal acts committed using the computer, and because of the continuous technology developments is impossible to create an exhaustive list of all actions considered a cyber crime. In order to facilitate the …


Technological Advances Leading To The Diminishing Of Privacy Rights, Anabelle Maria D'Souza Mar 2003

Technological Advances Leading To The Diminishing Of Privacy Rights, Anabelle Maria D'Souza

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The Purpose of this thesis is to bring about the awareness of the importance of privacy in our lives. Privacy is an essential element of a free society without which individuals would lose the ability to interact with one another in private. With the advancement in police surveillance technology there is a clash between an individuals right to keep a secret and the State’s power to penetrate that secret. State of the art technologies such as the financial crimes enforcement network, wearable computing and surveillance cameras are some of the latest devices invading privacy. These technological advances have become so …