World
anticriminal and antiterrist forum /WAAF/
The World Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Forum (WAAF)
is planned as an international nongovernment organization. The purpose
of the Forum is to create an international grouping of anticrime and antiterrorist
forces. Under the auspices of the WAAF, people in power, law enforcers,
scientists and scholars, businesspeople, financiers and journalists will
join their effort and professional possibilities for combating the expanding
criminality.
Main
activities of the Forum shall be as follows
To forecast the development of the criminal situation
worldwide and assess the threat and scale of organised crime and terrorism
at national and international levels
To elaborate counteraction strategies and tactics
to be employed at national, regional and international levels in combating
organised crime and terrorism, particularly with respect to
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acts of terrorism
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kidnapping and hostage taking
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financial fraud
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money laundering
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illegal trafficking
in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances
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illegal trafficking
in weapons, nuclear materials and radioactive substances
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illegal trafficking in cultural values
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high-tech crimes
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corruption
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illegal migration
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sexual abuse of
children, child pornography and prostitution
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and
other types of organised crime.
The Forum shall provide consultations to interested
individuals and organisations on how to carry out anticrime programs and
projects. The Forum shall analyse and summarise available information,
conduct research studies and surveys, hold conferences and workshops on
issues related to organised crime and terrorism.
The Forums ultimate goal is to build a premise for
national and international crime-combating strategies and to work out a
practical program for counteracting transnational crime.
After 3 and a half years of preparatory work the registration
of WAAF took place on 14th February 2002 in Berlin, Germany. Also, the
Board was elected and is comprised of
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Anatoly S. KULIKOV - Chairman of the Board of the WAAF (Chairman of the
Subcommittee on Combating Terrorism and Transnational Crime of the Committee
on Security of the State Duma of the Russian Federation)
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Rupert SCHOLZ - Deputy Chairman of the Board (Chairman of the Committee
on Legal Issues, Bundestag, GER)
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Thomas A. KELLEY - Deputy Chairman of the Board (Vice President of Global
Options LLC, USA)
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Andrejs VILKS - Member of the Board (Dr. of Law, Director of the Criminological
Research Center of the Ministry of Justice of Latvia, and Chairman of the
Committee on Security, Riga Municipal Council, Latvia)
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Patrick BRUNOT - Member of the Board (Dr. of Law, Attorney-at-Law, Paris
Court of Appeal, and President of France-Russia 2000 Society, France)
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Kirill A. TROPOV - Deputy Director General for International Relations,
National Anticriminal and Antiterrorist Foundation of Russia, was appointed
Executive Secretary of WAAF
Contacts”:
+70952904628
+70952021565
+70952068173
waaf@waaf.ru
http://www.waaf.ru
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