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Examining The Challenges To The Anti-Human-Trafficking Movement In Russia, Stephen Alexander Barton
Examining The Challenges To The Anti-Human-Trafficking Movement In Russia, Stephen Alexander Barton
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This paper examines the success of the anti-human trafficking movement in curbing the enslavement and trade of Russians to other parts of the country and world. This paper outlines how and why human trafficking is a major human rights and security issue for Russia and the “destination” countries to which traffickers send their victims. The anti-trafficking movement in Russia, which gained strength in the late 1990s through grassroots organization and international backing, successfully lobbied the Russian government to pass the country’s first anti-trafficking legislation in 2003. This paper analyzes the many challenges this law has faced, while also focusing particularly …
American Zionism And The Evolution Of ‘Pro-Israel’ In U.S. Politics, Samuel Taylor
American Zionism And The Evolution Of ‘Pro-Israel’ In U.S. Politics, Samuel Taylor
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This thesis will determine how and to what extent the definition of ‘pro-Israel’ in U.S. mainstream political activism has undergone a change. In light of recent publications and polls indicating that ‘support’ for or ‘connection’ to Israel was waning among college-aged Jewish students in the United States, I decided to examine the potential causes for this attitude shift, and determine how the shift is being reflected in the U.S. relationship with Israel, if at all. To adequately identify changes in the U.S.-Israeli relationship and the definition of ‘pro-Israel’ in the United States, one must first distinguish between, at least, two …