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Examples of transnational crimes include: human trafficking, people smuggling, smuggling/trafficking of goods (such as arms trafficking and drug trafficking and illegal animal and plant products and other goods prohibited on environmental grounds (e.g. banned ozone depleting substances), sex slavery, terrorism offences, torture and apartheid.
In July 2011, the White House released its Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime, which reflects this change and sets forth a strategy "to build, balance, and integrate the tools of American power to combat transnational organized crime and related threats to national security—and to urge our foreign partners to do the same." [36 ...
Transnational repression is a type of political repression conducted by a state outside its borders. It often involves targeting political dissidents or critical members of diaspora communities abroad and can take the forms of assassinations and/or enforced disappearances of citizens, among others.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday that white supremacy and neo-Nazi movements are becoming a "transnational threat" and have exploited the coronavirus pandemic to ...
Human smuggling remains a major problem, with Lavallee telling WBZ in October, “We have multiple identified transnational criminal organizations that are transporting people away from the border.”
Although much of the more recent literature has focused on popular protest as a form of transnational activism, some research has also drawn attention to clandestine and criminal networks, as well as foreign fighters, as examples of a wider form of transnationalism. [9]
Transnational repression. Sadly, these are not just a few isolated cases. ... Threats and intimidation have long targeted Sikh Americans. Authorities in California, along with the U.S. Departments ...
The Office of Transnational Issues [1] applies unique functional expertise to assess existing and emerging US national security threats. It provides the most senior US policymakers, military planners, and law enforcement with analysis, warning, and crisis support.