Sentences with phrase «curb human numbers»

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The reported slave auctions have raised questions about whether European Union migration agreements meant to curb Mediterranean crossings are instead turning human traffickers into slave traders as increasing numbers of migrants find themselves stuck in Libya, penniless, desperate and vulnerable.

Apparently embarrassed by the high number of Libyan returnees from Edo state and in a bid to curb the challenges of illegal migration, Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, has appointed a Senior Special Assistant on Human Trafficking and Illegal Migration.

There's about 40 percent more of it in the atmosphere today than there was in the millennia of human history before the Industrial Revolution, and that number is rising fast, since we just can't seem to curb our thirst for fossil fuels.