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exploitation

Social medicine The taking unfair advantage of a situation or person(s). See Sexual exploitation.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

exploitation

the situation in which one organism gains at the expense of another.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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Protests against the further exploitation of the hazardousgold mine are ongoing in Armenia.
Mass protests intensify in Armenia
(TAP) -- Some 31 cases of economic and sexual exploitation were identified in some twenty first instance courts nationwide in November 2018, according to a report on "Human trafficking in Tunisia: Reading of court records, State of play in 20 first instance courts".
Thirty-one economic and sexual exploitation cases recorded in 20 first instance courts nationwide (Report)
A NEW strategy has been launched to try to tackle violence and exploitation in Wolverhampton.
New strategy to foil slavery and violence
That's the stark warning coming from the top cops who work with victims of sexual exploitation in Newcastle.
'Exploitation doesn't go away, it just changes. We will never get these offenders off the streets without the victims' predators use apps to arrange dreadful abuse
The Victims Hub was established in 2014 afterNorthumbria Policelaunched Operation Shelter, a probe into the sexual exploitation of vulnerable women and girls in Newcastle's West End.
Sexual predators are using WhatsApp and Snapchat to arrange 'pop-up' abuse parties; Detectives reveal how sex abusers have changed their methods to try and avoid detection
A female accused, aged in her 30s, was charged with six counts of child neglect/cruelty, 13 of sexual exploitation and 17 of sexual assault on a child.
11 FACE COURT ON 212 CHILD SEX CHARGES; Alleged offences of rape, assault & neglect; Accused ages range from 20s to their 70s
A year-long child sexual exploitation awareness-raising campaign is being launched for the region in Dumfries tomorrow afternoon.
New project will tackle child sexual exploitation
LAHORE -- Pakistan Awami Tehreek leader Dr Tahirul Qadri says educating women and protecting them from exploitation is the responsibility of the state.
Women education is state responsibility, says Qadri
The Council of Ministers has authorized Shell International Exploitation and Development Italy S.A.
Shell Transfers to Repsol 20% of Oil and Gas Exploration Rights in Han Kubrat Offshore Bulgaria
14 (Petra) -- Major stakeholders and experts convening last week in Amman to address the Sexual Exploitation of Children (SEC) in the Arab World have outlined strategic national agendas to combat SEC in their countries.
JRF Concludes ECPAT's Regional Consultation on Sexual Exploitation of Children
MUZAFFARABAD -- Prime Minister Azad Jammu Kashmir Raja Farooq Haider Khan has emphasized the need for exploitation of natural resources in the territory for revenue generation and well being of the people.
Haider stresses exploitation of natural resources

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