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Human trafficking is one of today’s most acute problems affecting many countries worldwide. While anyone can fall victim to human trafficking, most victims are women and girls subjected to sexual exploitation. Human trafficking is taking on new forms and threatening fundamental human rights and values. Amnesty International published a report on the state of human rights in 154 countries in 2021/22, listing human trafficking as one of the areas where human rights violations are particularly acute.The Protocol to...

The fight against corruption is one of the essential tasks of each state, requiring conceptual, complex legal, organisational, educational, and social measures. The Article aims to assess the impact of the anti-corruption management system operating on the basis of the ISO 37001:2016 standard as an international instrument on national segments: corruption resistance models developed by Lithuanian state-owned enterprises. The National Anti-Corruption Programme 2015-2025 aims to reduce the extent of corruption and i...

Many may have considered the witness’s role in the court’s function of administering justice as delegated by many national constitutions. Why is a witness important to the court and the participants in the proceedings? Must the witness be summoned to appear in court? What rights and obligations does a witness have? The public has these and many other questions when discussing this actor. When a person’s rights or legally protected interests are violated, he or she has the right to seek redress via courts. Th...