Gender Security in South East Asia and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Exploitation in Central America: HUGE Security Challenges

2009 ◽  
pp. 1191-1214
Author(s):  
Mary Soledad L. Perpiñan ◽  
María Eugenia Villarreal ◽  
Úrsula Oswald Spring
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Central America ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Security Challenges

Vascular Trouble

2021 ◽  
pp. 108-114
Author(s):  
Dale Walters
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Central America ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Vascular System ◽  
Wilt Disease ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Crop Losses ◽  
Ceratocystis Wilt ◽  
Cacao Tree ◽  
Ceratocystis Cacaofunesta

This chapter looks at two diseases affecting the vascular system of the cacao tree: vascular streak dieback, caused by the fungus Ceratobasidium theobromae, and wilt disease, caused by the fungus Ceratocystis cacaofunesta. Both diseases are considered as serious threats to cacao production and their impact has already been considerable and severe. Vascular streak dieback nearly destroyed the cacao industry in Papua New Guinea and is mercifully restricted to Indonesia, Malaysia, and South-East Asia, while Ceratocystis wilt has been reported in several countries in South and Central America, where it has caused substantial crop losses. The chapter examines the research being undertaken to better understand these diseases and how best to tackle them.

scholarly journals Maritime Piracy in South-East Asia: the Regional Aspect

2019 ◽  
pp. 74-81
Author(s):  
Oleg Paramonov
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
The South ◽  
Maritime Piracy ◽  
Regional Powers ◽  
Regional Aspect ◽  
Security Challenges

Nowadays maritime piracy is one of the most serious non-traditional security challenges. After significant progress in the fight against maritime piracy in Somalia waters, the situation with maritime piracy and maritime terrorism in South-East Asia once again became the focus of attention of not only regional powers, but also extra-regional actors. At the same time, the ASEAN members States have consistently opposed the internationalization of the South-East Asia maritime piracy problem considering the situation from the point of view of protecting their own sovereignty. However, the regional states themselves do not have sufficient capacity to effectively counter maritime piracy, despite some successes in this field.

The ‘Children of the Sun’ and Central America

Antiquity ◽  
1928 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 161-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Thompson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Central America ◽  
Easter Island ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Natural Death

The theory that American aboriginal civilization was derived from south-east Asia and indirectly from Egypt has received such wide publicity that it is no longer possible to dismiss it lvithout refutation and wait for it to die a natural death. Such was the policy followed when the extravagances of Lord Kingsborough claiming that the inhabitants of Central America were the lost ten tribes first saw the light. Le Plongeon's fantastic claims too had their hour and then passed into the limbo of lost causes. Other heads of this hydra, peopling Central America from the lost continent of Atlantis, from Babylonia, Africa, New Zealand, Easter Island, and in fact from nearly every quarter of the globe, were not lopped off but left to wither away from lack of that blood, so necessary to this type of hydra–reasoned argument and proof.

Opening remarks

1980 ◽  
Vol 209 (1174) ◽  
pp. 3-4 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
East Asia ◽  
National Security ◽  
Rural Health ◽  
Central America ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Water And Sanitation

Three years ago the Royal Society held a two-day discussion meeting entitled ‘Technologies for Rural Health’. The meeting was well attended, the choice of subject appeared to meet a need and many of those who spoke expressed a wish that another such meeting might take place in a few years’ time. The Society has responded and today and tomorrow we shall be discussing ‘More technologies for rural health’. This is not, however, merely a repeat performance by popular demand. It is an attempt to focus on the dominant points that emerged from the 1976 discussions in seeking to alleviate the burden of ill-health, disease and malnu­trition among the three-quarters of the world’s population who live in rural areas. Early in the programme we have placed water and sanitation, and agri­ culture and nutrition - the same priority as was given in the 1976 meeting, but during the 3 years that have elapsed the solving of the relevant problems has become more urgent and, in many cases, the problems have themselves become more complex. An example of a specific complexity is that of refugees. The forces creating refugees have rarely been absent but, in recent months, these forces have been especially active in Central America, in Africa and in Asia. I introduce this complexity to the problems of rural health with particular feeling. I have just returned from a visit to south-east Asia and was in Bangkok when the Prime Minister of Thailand announced that he had changed his mind about his country’s policy with regard to the refugees on their border with Kampuchea. The Thailand frontier would now be open to the tens of thousands of refugees seeking sanctuary, a decision obviously putting humanitarian motives before the interests of national security and public health.

International Child Sex Tourism: Enhancing the Legal Response in South East Asia

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afrooz Kaviani Johnson
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
International Law ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Sex Tourism ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
Minimum Standards ◽  
Legal Response ◽  
International Child

AbstractSouth East Asia has earned the dubious reputation of being the world's prime child sex tourism destination. While a number of commentators have analysed extra-territorial legislation in the home countries of travelling child sex off enders, this article assesses the laws in the South East Asian destination countries in order to stimulate debate and action on much-needed reform. Unfortunately, few provisions in national legislation specifically address child sex tourism as a distinct form of sexual exploitation. To enhance the legal response to this abhorrent crime, it is recommended that national legislation directly address child sex tourism. Further, given the transnational nature of the crime, the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) should urgently adopt a multinational approach that synchronises national legislation and complies with, or exceeds, the minimum standards prescribed by international law.

scholarly journals A tarsal spinning organ in glomeridesmid millipedes (Diplopoda: Pentazonia: Glomeridesmida)

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 555-567
Author(s):  
Leif Moritz ◽  
Thomas Wesener
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Central America ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Outer Side ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Secretion Product

Abstract The production of sticky threads from spinnerets is known from various myriapod groups including some representatives of the millipedes (Diplopoda). In Diplopoda the thread-producing glands are mostly seta-like and positioned terminally on the telson, and the secretion product is typically used to build molting chambers or egg sacs. So far, no such secretions or organs have been documented for the subgroup Pentazonia. Here we describe thread-producing glands from the species-poor Glomeridesmida. These putative spinning organs are single circular fields of small pores (spinning fields) positioned on the outer side of the tarsi of all walking legs of mature and juvenile individuals of both sexes. These pores are the openings of cuticular tubuli (conducting canals), which extend from the tarsus to an aggregation of cells, a putative gland, within the femur. In several specimens thin threads were observed to be extruded from the pores. The tarsal spinning fields are present in all 21 investigated Glomeridesmida morphospecies, including Termitodesmidae and Glomeridesmidae from South East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Oceania, and South and Central America. These organs might constitute an apomorphic character of the Glomeridesmida, as similar organs are absent in other Myriapoda. The function of the extruded threads in Glomeridesmida remains speculative, because observations of living specimens of the group are almost non-existing. We suggest that the secretion might be used for defense, to build molting chambers or to secure tunnels burrowed in the substrate.

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