Apr
25
Another Starting Point of Drug Trafficking: Morocco
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Violet Wang (the 10th post)
The production of cannabis resin (also known as\ hashish) is also largely concentrated in North Africa (Morocco), besides central Asia, according to U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime. And the route of trafficking in cannabis resin is significantly inter-regional. from
North Africa (Morocco) to West and Central Europe.
Morocco, the north African [...]
Apr
25
Different drug, Similar and Severer Hurting Route
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
BY Violet Wang
Cannabis, another kind of drug raw material like opium, is creating harm to people via a production, processing, trafficking route similar to opium, again, originating from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Abuse of Cannabis is hurting people of the production and trafficking countries.
However, the situation seems to be worse than opium although productions of cannabis [...]
Apr
25
Iran’s opium dilemma
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Violet Wang
Iran drug users may have only one country to blame for their addiction: its neighboring Afghanistan. While Afghanistan people
easily fell to addiction of opium because of the country’s dominant production capacity of the plant in the world, Iranians get addicted due to the flow of drugs from Afghanistan to European countries.
Iran has [...]
Apr
22
Globalized Factories in Mexico
April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Wanching (Week 10)
In my last post “Across the US/Mexican Border”, I talked about how Mexicans are desperate to cross the border illegally hoping their great American dream will one day come true. However, many end up being poor and exploited, feeling out of place and void of hope.
Sad enough for these illegal immigrants, [...]
Apr
9
By Violet
Sophisticated laboratories inside Afghanistan are now converting 90 percent of the country’s opium into heroin and morphine before smuggling it around the world, the United Nations said, cited by an AFP report last year..The report said Afghanistan had until three years ago exported the illicit drug almost exclusively in its raw form, according to [...]
Apr
7
Across the US/Mexican Border
April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment
By Wanching (Week 9)
It seems that the US-Mexican border has caught the interest of many photographers lately.
When Irish photographer Richard Moss drove along the border, he noticed a rucksack sitting on the side of the road. He stopped and looked inside, where he found keys, toothpaste, cards for an English language course and a [...]
Apr
1
How much is a kidney?
April 1, 2008 | 2 Comments
By Wanching ( Week 8 )
According to Organs Watch, a task force of scientists and transplant surgeons who have launched a global investigation on organ trafficking, at least 15,000 human kidneys a year are sold and obtained through organ trafficking. Out of this 15,000 kidney “transactions”, many have been done through coercion, where victims of [...]
Mar
31
The situation in Pakistan: far from poppy free
March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Violet
Many Afghanistan refugees refused to leave Pakistan and return to their home county, so does the opium that are growing near the border and the trafficking of drugs.
Opium production in Afghanistan is at an all-time high, particularly near the Pakistan border, according to the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2008 released by the U.S. [...]
Mar
30
By Violet
Afghanistan is only part of the drug traffic link, although the most important as the origin of the raw opium. However, not only the poor people in Afghanistan are the victim of the cheap raw opium, Iran and Pakistan are also falling along being the neighbors of the world’s largest opium producer.
Mohammad Yusuf, a [...]
Mar
25
Nuns’ Initiatives to Help Trafficked Sex workers
March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Wanching (Week 7)
Women religious and prostitutes have long been considered to be standing at the two extreme ends of the women spectrum. In recent years, however, they have been increasingly bonded together by the former’s Samaritan mission to help the victims of human trafficking, and the latter’s desperation to seek help to end their [...]
