
Adam Blackwell: Human trafficking
moves 32 billon dollars annually
OAS /SMS
ACCORDING TO ADAM BLACKWELL, Secretary for Multidimensional Security of the OAS, human trafficking is “the third most lucrative activity for transnational organized crime, after drug and arms trafficking”.
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OAS called to analyze the
Inter-American Defense System
OAS / SMS
DURING THE CONFERENCE OF DEFENSE Ministers of the Americas they decided to ask the OAS to carry out the discussion about the future of the Inter-American Defense System. In the Final Declaration (spanish only) the Ministers insisted in a commitment to update the Inter-American defense system.
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Combating crime only with repressive measures will ultimately generate more violence
WHEN PARTICIPATING IN THE Third Latin American Democracy Forum, where several panelists discussed the strategies to tackle organized transnational crime, Álvaro Briones, Interim Director of the Department of Public Security, underlined the importance of establishing preventive measures aimed at youths “which are being targeted and recruited by organized crime”.
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OAS Report on Citizen Security
at Harvard University
OAS / SMS
PROFESSORS, SPECIALISTS AND GOVERNMENT officials from countries all over the world participated in the Fifth Annual Conference on Indicators of Safety and Justice, organized by the Harvard Kennedy School. The OAS Report on Citizen Security was presented during the opening panel.
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