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Laos in limbo heading into 2023 – East Asia Forum
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Laos in limbo heading into 2023 – East Asia Forum

Author: Kearrin Sims, James Cook University Laos experienced compounding social and economic pressures in 2022. The headline news story of the year was the country’s dire external debt. 2022 was also significant as it marked the 10th anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Sombath Somphone — a community development worker who provided successful alternatives to…

Domesticate human trafficking protocol — Chinomona
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Domesticate human trafficking protocol — Chinomona

The Herald Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter All countries should bring the International Trafficking in Persons Protocol into their domestic national law as part of a global coordinated response to fight the scourge of human trafficking, Senate president Mable Chinomona has urged. She said human trafficking had seen victims, mostly women, being forced into prostitution and…

Albanian politicians see jailed Kosovo leaders in The Hague
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Albanian politicians see jailed Kosovo leaders in The Hague

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Three former presidents of Albania and one of Kosovo on Wednesday visited ethnic Albanian former commanders in the fight against Serbian rule in Kosovo who are being held in a Netherlands prison pending trial for alleged war crimes. Former Kosovo President Behgjet Pacolli said he visited the detainees together with three…

Albanian PM strengthens call for review of damning Kosovo war report
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Albanian PM strengthens call for review of damning Kosovo war report

Prime Minister Edi Rama attacked the Dick Marty 2011 report on the Kosovo war during his speech at the UN General Assembly on Saturday, following a decision from his government to condemn it. The report for the Council of Europe accused former high-ranking Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) members of war crimes in collaboration with Albanians…

Albania asks human rights body to cancel stolen organ claims
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Albania asks human rights body to cancel stolen organ claims

TIRANA, Albania — The Albanian Parliament has asked Europe’s top human rights body to rescind a 2011 resolution that cited since-unsubstantiated allegations of human organ harvesting during the 1990s war in Kosovo. The parliament voted 125-0 late Thursday in favor of a motion asking the Council of Europe to clear both Albania and Kosovo of…

International leaders urged to step up efforts to combat human trafficking – Catholic Review
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International leaders urged to step up efforts to combat human trafficking – Catholic Review

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The predators engaged in human trafficking “never take a holiday, nor can we,” a U.S congressman who holds a top international anti-trafficking post told world leaders gathered July 2-6 in Birmingham, England. Those “who exploit and abuse vulnerable women, children and men never cease in their nefarious work,” U.S. Rep. Chris Smith,…

International leaders urged to step up efforts to combat human trafficking – Angelus News
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International leaders urged to step up efforts to combat human trafficking – Angelus News

The predators engaged in human trafficking “never take a holiday, nor can we,” a U.S congressman who holds a top international anti-trafficking post told world leaders gathered July 2-6 in Birmingham, England. Those “who exploit and abuse vulnerable women, children and men never cease in their nefarious work,” U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., said during…