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May 14, 2008
| Speaker: | Mark Lagon, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, U.S. Department of State |
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| Presider: | Diana Taylor, Managing Director, Wolfensohn & Company |
Video
8:00 to 9:00 a.m.
On Wednesday, May 14, 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. (ET), watch Ambassador Mark Lagon discuss how the public and private sector can work together to combat human trafficking.
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November 6, 2007
Shannon O'Neil, Fellow for Latin America Studies interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Shannon O’Neil, CFR’s Mexico expert, says Washington’s $1.4 billion multiyear plan to bolster Mexico’s crackdown on drug and criminal rings, while drawing criticism, is likely to win congressional approval.
See more in Mexico, United States, Defense/Homeland Security, Border and Ports, Immigration, U.S. Strategy and Politics, Congress, Foreign Aid
November 6, 2007
| Speakers: | Olivier Roy, French National Center for Scientific Research Vali R. Nasr, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Transcript
The roundtable series on Global Islamic Politics facilitates discussion and debate on key issues that will shape the direction of politics in the Muslim world in the coming years and their ensuing impact on U.S. foreign policy. Olivier Roy discusses the future of radical Islam in Europe.
See more in Europe/Russia, Middle East, Society and Culture, Immigration, Religion, Terrorism
July 17, 2007
Podcast
Dalton Conley, professor of sociology at New York University, discusses sub-Saharan Africa’s high fertility rates and their implications for the continent's economic growth.
See more in Sub-Saharan Africa, Population
May 15, 2007
| Authors: | Travis Fox Maureen Fan |
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Must Read
As part of the China project, Washington Post takes a detailed look at social and economic factors reshaping China's traditional families.
See more in China, Economic Development, Society and Culture, Population
March 26, 2007
| Author: | Carin Zissis |
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Backgrounder
As rural Chinese move to urban areas in increasing numbers, a long-standing household registration system prevents migrant workers from accessing essential public services.
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March 2007
Must Read
This report from Amnesty International describes the plight of the estimated 150-200 million rural-to-urban migrants who have moved to China’s cities in search of work and better lives in what has been called "the world’s largest ever peacetime migration", documenting how they are treated as second class citizens within their own country.
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October 26, 2006
Must Read
The International Crisis Group (ICG) issues a report tracing the exodus of North Koreans from their country.
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September 2006
| Author: | Shirin Hakimzadeh |
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Must Read
The Migration Policy Institute reports on Iran's immigration and emigration trends.
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May 3, 2006
| Speakers: | Ann Jordan, Director, Initiative Against Trafficking in Persons,, Global Rights Neha Misra, Global Coordinator, Counter Trafficking Programs; Program Officer, Africa Region, American Center for International Labor Solidarity (Solidarity Center), AFL-CIO Jyoti Sanghera, Advisor on Trafficking, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights |
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| Presider: | Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations |
Audio
Listen to experts analyze human trafficking in relation to human rights, immigration, and labor rights.
See more in Human Rights, Women
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Iraq War (5/13): Max Boot analyzes the habit of U.S. generals passing the buck when it comes to the failures in Iraq, in the Washington Post.
Burma (5/13): Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the United Nations must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene in Burma, in the Boston Globe.
Mideast (5/13): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. to focus its efforts on restoring Israeli-Syrian negotiations, in Newsweek.
U.S. Presidential Election (5/9): Michael Gerson looks at the sticking points of the “Obama narrative,” in the Washington Post.
Iraq (5/8): Mohamad Bazzi urges the U.S. and Iraqi governments not to exclude Muqtada al-Sadr from the political process, in The National.
Campaign 2008 (5/5): It would be a travesty if Obama’s campaign gets knocked off course because of his former preacher, writes Sebastian Mallaby in the Washington Post.
Climate change poses threats to national security in a number of ways. In this report, sponsored by the Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Joshua W. Busby offers specific recommendations for confronting this important issue, including a list of "no-regrets" policies.
This report, by International Affairs Fellow Michelle D. Gavin and sponsored by the Center for Preventive Action, surveys the current situation in Zimbabwe and proposes steps that can increase the likelihood that regime change, when it comes, will bring constructive reform instead of conflict and state collapse.
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In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
In Regional Monetary Integration, Peter B. Kenen poses an important question: Should various country groups follow the lead of the European Monetary Union and form similar full-fledged monetary unions?
Walter Russell Mead recounts the story of the centuries-long rivalry between the English- speaking peoples and their enemies in God and Gold.
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