Also complicating the picture is a perception President Karzai, to gain electoral support, has allied with brutal warlords and others accused of either human rights abuses or drug trafficking.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

President Obama says the Summit of the Americas yielded broad hemispheric agreement on the need to spur economic growth, confront security challenges like drug trafficking, promote alternative fuels, protect the environment, and ensure human rights.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

The world will not run out of impoverished people who need a helping hand, human trafficking and slavery will continue, human rights of all varieties will be violated, animals will be mistreated, and global warming will not be corrected in 2013.

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Human trafficking is a fundamental human rights issue, and according to the UN, the overwhelming majority of victims are women and girls.

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Specific related topics included Indigenous Rights, Refugees and Immigrants, Human Trafficking, Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Education for All, Media and Freedom of Expression, and many others.

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