... (Subject) EU JHA INTIATIVE AGAINST TNOC Europol has the greatest potential in fighting multinational crime. JHA primarily was aimed in facilitating international cooperation for the EU countries. The cooperation included migration, crime management, border management, issues related to internal security, counterterrorism and civil law. It came into place to make the four freedoms of movement of people, goods, services and money. Framed within the context of the Treaty of the European Union, Europol’s authorization composed all serious types of international crime, including international terrorism. Europol is shown to have demonstrated the dual forces of political control over the association of the European Union, on the one side, and the institutional autonomy and professional expertise of participating police agencies, on the other[1] . The outcome of these dual forces can be likely to determine the course and result of counter-terrorist policing in the European Union in coming years. Europol's endeavor is to advance the effectiveness and co-operation between the capable authorities of the member states primarily by giving out and getting intelligence to prevent and fight serious international organized crime. Its mission is to make a significant contribution to the European Union's law enforcement efforts targeting organized crime. Europol is prospective but have these shortcomings which are: Europol has no executive authority. It is a prop up service for...
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...The main threat in Europe is organized crimes Organized criminal activity in Europe, it is widely accepted, has grown enormously in the last decade. The last ten-fifteen years have witnessed great changes in the political makeup of Europe, the collapse of Communism in 1989 and the deepening and widening of the European Union, through the establishment of the Treaties, have all been factors in the contribution to the growth of organized crime. Although organized crime is certainly not a new phenomenon it has become, in recent years, increasingly more widespread and highly sophisticated, taking advantage of the advances in technology, particularly in the field of communications. It has also been quick to adapt and exploit the changing political and economic mechanisms within Europe. This is particularly the case with the transition economies of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) in Eastern Europe. The dramatic changes that followed 1989 and the resultant political and economic chaos have left many CIS countries extremely vulnerable to organized crime. Why has Organized Crime Increased? The reasons for the increase in organized crime are many and varied. One of the most important reasons for the sudden increase in organized criminal activity was the signing of the SEA (Single European Act) in 1986 and its introduction and provision, which states the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital, also provided a favorable situation for organized crime...
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...Dominic DeBona Professor Giordano POL 105 15 March 2016 National Security National security has been an extensive ongoing issue, but it has only increased since the brutal attacks of September 11th, 2001. The war on terrorism has been dealt with since then but not as efficient as people want. Immigration has a big role in the war on terrorism as the country is unaware of certain people entering this country with the intent of performing acts of terror. With that being seen in this country too often now, the idea of closing the borders may not be the worst idea this government has ever had. Of course an extreme idea like that can lead to further issues but can also provide the country with the time to sit down and reflect on what can be done better in the future to avoid these circumstances. The people of this country might not have the best course of action to solve this issue but the government needs to work hard to fix this issue we are having on a daily basis. Nearly 3,000 people were killed instantly for the attacks of 9/11. On the day of these attacks, 19 al Qaeda members hijacked planes and performed the most lethal act of terrorism in American history. This attack raised the awareness of Islam and its teachings tremendously. There have been reports of increased sales of the Qur’an and literature on Islam, for example, and some mosques prominent Muslim community leaders have reported a surge in converts to Islam since 9/11 (Coskun 2012). The general public...
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...MGT/448 - GLOBAL BUSINESS STRATEGIES Instructor: MICHAEL GAY Schedule: 10/12/2011 - 11/09/2011 Campus: SOUTH COAST LEARNING CENTER Group ID: SC11BSM06 Regional Integration for and against Articles EU Regional Integration Advantages The development of our world economy displays its escalating integrity and is based on international specialization and also co-production, and not the mention the consolidation of economic relations among states and business entities. Integration is a judicial law of the progress of international economic relationship. European Union is the foremost commercial power in our world today. The EU has attained the national unity in the economic and social policy: not a member of the EU can’t secure the prices of agricultural products or to enter in commercial agreements with third world countries or relations, state aid to companies individually have to be held in beneath the Brussels treaty. Countries have to meet the terms with general rules, environmental safety and consumer protection as well. The reaction of the leading countries: the influential’s talked about their success of monetary union. The key advantages of regional integration is having newer, cheaper, faster and more diversified, goods, resources, services, facilities, ideas and knowledge as well as higher living standards available. The powerful forces of international economic integration are the companies. They are interested in achieving an optimal level of activity, including...
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...Harmonised application form (1) Application for Schengen Visa This application form is free. Photo 1 Surname (Family name) (x) For official use only Date of application: Visa application number: 5 Place of birth 7 Current nationality Nationality at birth, if different: UDDIN . 2 Surname at birth (Former family name(s)) (x) UDDIN 3 First name(s) (Given name(s)) (x) MOHAMMAD 4 Date of birth (day-month-year) 25.07.1986 SYLHET 6 Country of birth BANGLADESH BANGLADESH 8 Sex Male Female 9 Marital status Single Married Separated Divorced Widow(er) Application lodged at Embassy/consulate CAC Service provider Commercial intermediary Border Name: Other (please specify) 10 In the case of minors: Surname, first name, address (if different from applicant’s) and nationality of parental authory/legal guardian Other 11 National identity number, where applicable 12 Type of travel document Ordinary passport Diplomatic passport Service passport Official passport Special passport File handled by: Other travel document (please specify) 13 Number of travel document 14 Date of issue 15 Valid until 16 Issued by 1 31.03.2005 30.03.2015 BANGLADESH Supporting documents: Travel document Means of subsistence Invitation Means of transport TMI Other: 17 Applicant’s home address, e-mail address Telephone number(s) 34B STOPFORD ROAD e13 0lz LONDON BANGLADESH moslehuddin14@yahoo.com 02036097316 Visa decision: Refused...
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...Gameover ZeuS and Cryptolocker University of Maryland University College Abstract Covered in this paper is how virulent software such as Gameover ZeuS and Cryptolocker can wreak havoc on a system causing all types of issues. Items covered are what type of software each of these malicious codes is categorized as. What a botnet and ransomware are and how they can affect a system. The type of threats that Gameover ZeuS and Cryptolocker are categorized as, such as a confidentiality breach, integrity breach or an availability breach. Lastly the types of intervention and prevention that can be done to mitigate an attack, or prevent it in the first place. Tackling software such as these before being spread can mean the difference between hundreds and even thousands of dollars in damage. Gameover ZeuS and Cryptolocker Gameover ZeuS was what most would consider a really nasty Trojan horse. Thought to be created by Evgeniy M. Bogachev, a 30 year old man from Russia, the supposed ring leader of the whole operation. It is thought that the Trojan infected between 500,000 and one million computers, and syphoning over 100 million dollars into the attackers accounts. Gameover ZeuS was a Trojan that created a botnet and also carried another payload with it, Cryptolocker. Cryptolocker was a type of ransomware that prompted users to enter personal information and money to “remove” the virus (Herman, n.d.). How did these two pieces of software work together to cause so much chaos? We...
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...Sex Trafficking and Slavery in the United States "She tied up my hands first, and then she put the tape over my mouth. And she put tape over my eyes," Debbie said. "While she was putting tape on me, Matthew told me if I screamed or acted stupid, he'd shoot me. So I just stayed quiet”...” Debbie said her captors drove her around the streets of Phoenix for hours. Exhausted and confused, she was finally taken to an apartment 25 miles from her home. She said one of her captors put a gun to her head”…” Debbie said she was then drugged by her captors and other men were brought into the room, where she was gang raped.” (Teen Girls’ Stories of Sex Trafficking in U.S.). Many Americans hear stories all the time of abduction and sexual slavery all around the world. They feel like something should be done about this injustice but since the acts are happening outside the country they feel disconnected. Unfortunately, most Americans are not as far from this problem as they would like to believe. Sex trafficking happens at an alarming rate in America. Between the years 1996-2000, America had the highest number of victims trafficked illegally into the country (Cullen-Dupont 44). With this high level of trafficking going on, why are many Americans unaware of this issue? They most likely believe that only foreign victims are trafficked into slavery, but the Texas Attorney General states that an epidemic exists of domestic women being forced into sexual slavery as well (Bellows 489). Debbie...
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...Biometrisches PHOTO (45mm x 35 mm / heller Hintergrund Antrag auf Erteilung eines Schengen-Visums Österreichische BotschaftSofia | Dieses Antragsformular ist unentgeltlich 1. Name (Familienname) (x) | Reserviert für amtliche Eintragungen | 2. Familienname bei der Geburt (frühere(r) Familienname(n)) (x) | Datum des Antrags: Nr. des Visumantrags Antrag eingereicht bei □ Botschaft/Konsulat □ Gemeinsame Antragsbearbeitungsstelle □ Dienstleistungserbringer □ Kommerzieller Vermittler □ Grenze Name: □ Sonstige Stelle Akte bearbeitet durch: Belege: □ Reisedokument □ Mittel zur Bestreitung des Lebensunterhalts □ Einladung □ Beförderungsmittel □ Reisekrankenversicherung □ Sonstiges: Visum: □ Abgelehnt □ Erteilt: □ A □ C □ Visum mit räumlich beschränkter Gültigkeit □ Gültig vom ….. bis….. Anzahl der Einreisen: □ 1 □ 2 □ mehrfach Anzahl der Tage: | 3. Vorname(n) (Beiname(n)) (x) | | 4. Geburtsdatum (Jahr-Monat-Tag) | 5. Geburtsort 6. Geburtsland | 7. Derzeitige Staatsangehörigkeit Staatsangehörigkeit bei der Geburt (falls nicht wie oben) | | 8. Geschlecht □ männlich □ weiblich | 9. Familienstand □ ledig □ verheiratet □ getrennt □ geschieden □ verwitwet □ Sonstiges (bitte nähere Angaben) | ...
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...http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruxelles Ville de Bruxelles o Bruxelles-ville> Ermita del pantano se utiliza para evitar la confusión entre el municipio y la región. Le terme Bruxelles est le plus souvent utilisé pour désigner la région, administrée par un gouvernement dénommé « gouvernement de Bruxelles-Capitale ». La Région, qui s'étend sur 162 km2 et compte 1 142 000 habitants en fin 2011, est divisée en 19 communes5, à l’instar de Londres divisée en districts, mais qui sont soumises à l’autorité du gouvernement et du parlement de la région. La commune centrale, qui conserve son nom séculaire de « Ville de Bruxelles » (communément appelée « Bruxelles-ville ») est un ensemble composite comprenant le centre historique (le Pentagone) et une série d’extensions urbaines, comme les anciennes communes de Laeken, Neder-Over-Heembeek et Haren ainsi que le quartier maritime, la très bourgeoise avenue Louise au sud, le Bois de la Cambre, ou encore le quartier Léopold, où se concentrent notamment les institutions européennes. Les 18 autres communes, représentant une centaine de quartiers distincts, s’agglomèrent autour de cette commune centrale pour former une région de 19 communes. En effet, toutes les communes ont un statut d'égalité sous un gouvernement et un parlement bruxellois qui ont été créés à l'occasion de la fédéralisation de la Belgique (à ne pas confondre avec le gouvernement et le parlement belges qui sont des organes fédéraux belges qui exercent les pouvoirs qui ne...
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...Human Rights Report on Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children Spain Population: 40,548,753 (July 2010 est.) Population Growth Rate: 0.045% (2010 est.) Birth Rate: 9.54 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) Life Expectancy: total population: 80.18 years; male: 76.88 years; female: 83.7 years (2010 est.) Literacy Rate: total population: 97.9%; male: 98.7%; female: 97.2% (2003 est.) Net Migration Rate: 0.99 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.) Unemployment Rate: 18.1% (2009 est.) Gross Domestic Product per Capita: $33,700 (2009 est.) Religions: Roman Catholic 94%, other 6% Languages: Castilian Spanish (official) 74%; Catalan 17%, Galician 7%, and Basque 2% are official regionally Ethnic Groups: composite of Mediterranean and Nordic types Capital: Madrid1 Trafficking Routes Given Spain’s proximity to North Africa, trafficking routes often include Spain as a destination or transit country onto the European continent. Trafficking victims, mainly young women, are recruited from Eastern Europe and South America with the promise of jobs in Spain. The traffickers then force the women into sexual servitude. The Canary Islands remain one of the most used routes for illegal immigrants from West Africa.2 Spain and Italy are among the major receiving countries for persons trafficked from West Africa in general and Nigeria in particular, either for labor, sex, or the removal of their organs.3 The sources of trafficking are not restricted to neighboring regions, as victims...
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...SOCIAL CONTROL • What is Social Control? In sociological dictionaries, “social control” is defined to include all social processes, institutions and methods that produce (or attempt to produce) conformity or regulate the individual and collective conduct of its members. Social control refers generally to societal and political mechanisms or processes that regulate individual and group behavior, leading to conformity and compliance to the rules of a given society, state, or social group. Many mechanisms of social control are cross-cultural, if only in the control mechanisms used to prevent the establishment of chaos or anomie. Some theorists, such as Émile Durkheim, refer to this form of control as regulation. Sociologists identify two basic forms of social controls: 1. Internal Control- Internalisation of norms and values by a process known as socialization. Socialization is defined as "“the process by which an individual, born with behavioral potentialities of enormously wide range, is led to develop actual behavior which is confined to the narrower range of what is acceptable for him by the group standards.” 2. External Control- External sanctions, which can be either positive (rewards) or negative (punishment). These sanctions come from either formal or informal control. While the concept of social control has been around since the formation of organized sociology, the meaning has been altered over time. Originally the concept simply referred to society’s ability...
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...Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 3 DEFINITION 3 PROGRESS 3 REASONS 8 CONSEQUENCES 9 NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES 9 POSITIVE CONSEQUENCES 10 CRITIQUE & CONCLUSION 11 REFERENCE LIST 13 Introduction This term paper is about the recent meat scandal in Europe 2013. In the first section I will analyse and describe its process. Secondly, I will describe the reasoning behind the meat scandal as it pertains to the business world. In the third part I will evaluate the consequences as well as its economic impact. And last but not least I will criticise the actions and decisions of the businesses and political leaders involved. As well I will recommend action steps for business leaders impacted by this scandal. Definition The word “scandal” is defined as an offense caused by a fault misdeed.(Modern Language Association (MLA), 2013). Besides it is often a disgraceful or discreditable action. The term “meat scandal” cannot be defined exactly. Nevertheless you can define how a meat scandal developed and why it became a scandal. Generally a meat scandal emerged from the illegal act of putting incompatible meat in circulation for the human consumption (e.g. Rotten meat). Due to the fact that the intermixed beef was compatible for the human consumption, the recent meat scandal was more about the falsely declared meat. Progress In the following section I will analyse and describe the process of the meat scandal. For simplicity reasons I would like to please every reader to have a...
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...Intelligence Mission on ISIS Report Chye Yue Zhang SCTY 415 Studies in Intelligence II Abstract The threat of terrorism became very real when it caught the United States off guard and seized the attention of the rest of the world on the 11th of September 2001, using four hijacked airliners led by a terrorist organization named al-Qaeda in an attempt to conduct suicide missions of prominent landmarks of the U.S. The Twin Towers in New York were destroyed while the Pentagon in Washington D.C. suffered damage that took a year to repair. The total fatalities amounted to almost 3,000 while twice the amount of people were injured. Since then, most nations in the world have become wary of terrorist and militant groups and the potential threats that they pose. This can be seen by the tightened national securities of many countries especially on every possible stations and ports of all modes of transport that a terrorist may pose a threat to. At this point of time, although the al-Qaeda is no longer a prominent terrorist threat, another established and independent militant organization by the name of the Islamic State (IS) got the world concerned about its activities in the Middle East which in turn affected and continues to affect the rest of the world through its twisted beliefs and brutality. This paper aims to define this currently infamous group’s beliefs and objectives, how it works as an organization, how it is a threat to many countries all over the world, and the methods...
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...Introducción a Género y Política ¿Ya se ha conseguido la igualdad entre mujeres y hombres? Profª Emanuela Lombardo Universidad Complutense de Madrid 1 Plan • Sexo/Género • ¿Ya se ha conseguido la igualdad? – – – – – – educación política empleo trabajo domestico y de cuidado violencia medios de comunicación • Conceptos básicos de la igualdad – género – Patriarcado – Feminismo • Feminismo: primera, segunda y tercera ola 2 ¿Qué es el género? 3 ¿Sexo o género? – Dar a luz; alimentar a un bebé – Duración de permiso de maternidad y paternidad – Deportistas profesionales M menos pagadas que H – Pocos hombres trabajan en cuidado de niños y niñas – Mujeres en media viven más años, en zonas económicamente más desarrolladas del mundo – Mujeres y niñas sufren más los desastres naturales, excepto en huracanes – Hombres se suicidan más que mujeres en Bélgica – En Suecia hombres con minusvalía por accidentes reciben mayores compensaciones económicas – A mujeres políticas se les asignan carteras de sanidad 4 y servicios sociales más que economía y defensa Género • • • • • Desigualdad socialmente construida (Beauvoir) Socialización crea identidad (rosa-azul ‘baby x’) Genero concierne mujeres y hombres Genero es cultural y cambia en contexto y tiempo Valor que se da a la diferencia (trabajos de H mas valorados que trabajos de M, Brecha salarial en Europa 16%, en España 23.9% en 2014) • Elecciones de vida no siempre...
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...Visual Data Security White Paper Brian Honan, BH Consulting July 2012 1 Introduction Welcome to Secure’s White Paper on Visual Data Security. As data gets ever more versatile and mobile, we want to make sure that individuals, businesses, organisations and governments across Europe are aware of the threats posed by visual data security breaches. Simply put, visual data security is ensuring that information cannot be seen by unauthorised individuals. This is particularly important when dealing with private or sensitive information, and the threat of a breach has risen enormously with the shift in working practices towards increased mobility, flexibility and shared resources. This White Paper has been commissioned to give some background to visual data security and provide simple, easy to follow advice on how to prevent a breach and protect individuals’ personal data and organisations’ commercially sensitive information. It’s not about constraining people’s working habits or holding back the tide, but about embracing new trends and empowering employers and employees to take small steps to work in a safe and secure manner. By promoting a greater understanding of these risks and the behavioural and practical procedures that can be adopted to reduce them, we hope to enhance data security across the continent. We hope you find the Paper of interest. For any further information please don’t hesitate to contact us on info@visualdatasecurity.eu. Happy reading and stay secure...
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