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Freedom from Fear - Volume 2016, Issue 12, 2016
Volume 2016, Issue 12, 2016
This journal aims to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and awareness of the international community's priority issues in the field of justice, crime prevention and human rights. The Magazine pursues the promotion of innovative dialogue by spreading awareness, creating consensus and a sense of shared responsibility of the problems that affect the global community. As a forum for long-term change, the Magazine endeavors to promote democratic values, civil stability, and aid the international community in developing actions towards greater peace, justice and security for all members of social, civil and political society.
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Migrants as victims - Victimological perspectives of human smuggling and human trafficking
More LessAuthor: Michael KilchlingThe ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe touches on fundamental issues of international law, criminal policy, criminology – and victimology. Public perception of and opinions on human trafficking, human smuggling and the situation of migrants in general is in a state of flux; perceptions and opinions are heavily influenced by media depictions and highly dependent on the general political climate of a society. Political, public and even acad Read More
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Mediterranean migration towards Europe: System failure?
More LessAuthor: Karoline PoppThe Mediterranean has historically been a space of exchange, contact, and conquest. Migration – in all directions – has always been part of the cultural, political and economic negotiation around “Mare Nostrum.” Few things, however, have thrown European identities and the European political project into question more than the recent movement of migrants and refugees across the Mediterranean. In 2014, more than Read More
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Migration and social cohesion
More LessAuthor: Will SomervilleIt is self-evident that large-scale migration of people has consequences for the communities they arrive into. We live in a world that is experiencing growing populations (often with expanding numbers of middle class people who are more likely to move) and that is increasingly interconnected. Most analyses therefore indicate that the majority of countries in the world face increasing people movement, often people moving for s Read More
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Escaping climate change: Who are the “environmental migrants” in international law?
More LessAuthor: Elena PiasentinThe term “environmental refugees” was used for the first time in 1985, when the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) researcher Essam El-Hinnawi defined these persons as those “who have been forced to leave their traditional habitat, temporarily or permanently, because of a marked environmental disruption (natural and/or triggered by people) that jeopardized their existence and/or seriously affected the qu Read More
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Implementing Agenda 2030: Welcome to the UNSSC Knowledge Centre for Sustainable Development
More LessAuthor: Daniela Cepeda CuadradoOn 1 January 2016, the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and its 17 Goals (SDGs) come into effect. The same day, the UN System Staff College (UNSSC)1 inaugurated the UNSSC Knowledge Centre for Sustainable Development, which is tasked to support the UN system in implementing the new development Agenda through learning, training and knowledge management.
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Just numbers and maps? The importance of monitoring trafficking in human beings for the development of evidence based policies
More LessAuthor: Rita PenedoThe United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, commonly known as the “Trafficking Protocol” (2000), marks the beginning of a harmonized definition of Trafficking in Human Beings (THB), later on consolidated by the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (2005) and, more recently, by the Directive 2011/36 of the Read More
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Smuggling networks to Europe: A spectrum from organised to disorganised crime
More LessAuthor: Mark ShawAs Europe struggles to find a coherent approach to its burgeoning refugee and migrant crisis, one set of actors has been universally vilified: the migrant smugglers. While they are not the cause of the current crisis, they have certainly amplified it, and are often responsible for the greatest violations against human rights and protection. Turning attention and public outcry toward the smugglers arguably allows the EU memb Read More
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Perceptions of ethnic Albanians in New York City and the role of stereotypes in fostering social exclusion and criminality
More LessAuthors: Adriana Michilli and Jana ArsovskaIf I awake to look out my window, walk out my front door and to my right, left and for as far as my eyes can see, my once tranquil city is plagued with carnage, bloodshed, strife and civil war would I not seek a safer life just over the mountains or across the sea? The idea of migration being a human right is far too often overlooked in the domains of international security organizations, as domestic governments and global polic Read More
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Hate speech online: Assessing Europe’s capacity to tackle an emerging threat
More LessAuthor: Arthur BrocatoFrom politically charged headlines to hate-filled interactions on social media, the phenomenon of words being used as weapons has rapidly taken shape in the public sphere within the last decade. Advances in global communication have made it easier for people across the world to stay in touch, exchange ideas, and foster cooperation at all levels of society. Nevertheless, communication technologies can also be used to spr Read More
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Trafficking in persons: Victim assistance and protection in Italian criminal proceedings
More LessAuthor: Alessia Lo ConteIt is widely recognized that the main purpose of the criminal justice system does not lie exclusively in punishing offenders, but above all and primarily, in respecting and restoring the human rights, dignity and needs of victims of crime.
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Institutional child sexual abuse: Impacts and responses
More LessAuthors: Basia Spalek, Catherine McCall and Heather BaconMany countries are now dealing with cases of large-scale institutional child sexual abuse. The institutional aspects of child sexual abuse include: inadequate procedures to protect children; values that place the reputations of organisations above bringing child sex offenders to justice; marginalization of victims and whistleblowers; failure to involve police authorities to investigate criminality; and people in authority misu Read More
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