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The Dominican Republic is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor. Dominican women and children are trafficked to destinations in Latin America and Europe, including Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, the Netherlands Antilles, Argentina, Costa Rica, and Brazil. There are indications that Peruvian women have been trafficked through the Dominican Republic to Italy. Additionally, Haitians are trafficked into the Dominican Republic for forced labor and sexual exploitation. There are reports of an estimated 2,000 Haitian children trafficked into the Dominican Republic annually to work on the street (such as shoe shining), to work in agriculture, or to be exploited in the sex trade. The ILO estimates that 48,000 children are engaged in child labor nationwide. [Read More]
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Potential U.S. investors need to factor Austria’s strict environmental laws into their decision-making process. Austria has imposed marketing bans on some agricultural biotechnology seeds despite existing EU approvals. The European Commission has not yet taken steps to overturn the bans, despite the fact that the EU’s Scientific Committee has found no justification for the bans and the EU Moratorium on new approvals has ended. For future varieties, new EU legislation on the deliberate release of genetically modified organisms and on traceability and labeling requires Austria to allow GMO seeds on the fields and foods in the stores. However, strict liability regulations for research, production, and distribution of GMOs still apply. U.S. investors considering production facilities emitting CO2 in Austria will have to take into consideration Austria’s commitment to cut its CO2 emissions by 13% from the 1990 level according to the Kyoto Protocol (1997). They will also have to scrutinize A ... [Read More]
Austria
Austria is a multiparty parliamentary democracy in which constitutional power is shared between the popularly elected President and the 183-member Parliament. Citizens choose their President and representatives in periodic, free, and fair multiparty elections. In 1998, President Thomas Klestil of the Austrian People's Party (OVP) was elected to a 6-year term. In parliamentary elections in November 2002, the OVP received a plurality and renewed its right-center coalition with the Freedom Party (FPO). The judiciary is independent.The national police maintain internal security, and the army is responsible for external security. The civilian authorities maintained effective control of the security forces. There were reports that the police committed some human rights abuses.The country's highly developed, market-based economy, with its mix of technologically advanced industry, modern agriculture, and tourism, affords the ... [Read More]
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