Drug trafficking is by its very nature accompanied by trafficking in persons, money laundering, the arms trade, child exploitation and other forms of corruption.
Van Gundy and Layden both said it was tough to see Childs go, and though the Knicks had been trying to trade Childs for years, their words were not insincere.
Most law enforcement efforts have been aimed at those who collect and trade child pornography, such as the 1,300 people swept up in a recent campaign in Britain, but do not produce it.
Despite international efforts to curb the trade, child slavery persists in West and Central Africa, from where European slave traders shipped millions of people to the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries.
His investigations covered topics including industrial accidents, neo-Nazi violence in the UK, Chinese criminal societies, the history of the CIA, Watergate, election fraud in Guyana, the Iraq arms trade, child labour, nuclear proliferation, and Frank Sinatra's connection to organised crime.
The authorities have called the investigation Operation Candyman, after the name of an Internet Web site that the F.B.I. says was used to display and trade child pornography and that it shut down in February 2001.
Without the means to ensure basic survival, and with no recourse to protective social safety nets, many children are forced into commercial sex trade, child labour, or early marriage.
By Robert Few CHIANG RAI, Thailand, 19 January 2006 – Part of the infamous opium-producing Golden Triangle, the mountainous and remote province of Chiang Rai faces many problems, including the drug trade, child trafficking and abuse, and poverty.
Thailand: AIDS Access helps care for HIV-positive young people CHIANG RAI, Thailand, 19 January 2006 – Part of the infamous opium-producing Golden Triangle, the mountainous and remote province of Chiang Rai faces many problems, including the drug trade, child trafficking and abuse, and poverty.
