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Energy security in the V4: Assessment of possible cooperation to enhance security and development
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Splitting Along Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Lines: Abortion Debate in Turkey
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Trafficking of Women in the Balkans: A Modern-Day Slavery
Over the past decade, “trafficking in persons” or “human trafficking” for commercial sexual exploitation has been one of the fastest growing areas of international organized criminal activity. In simplest terms, human trafficking is “a cruel, ruthless, and cynical form of human exploitation, a serious crime, and a gross violation of human dignity.”1 In legal terms, [...]
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