There are an estimated 100,000 female sex workers in the Pakistani City of Karachi, with an additional 75,000 sex workers in the city of Lahore.

60 percent of prostitutes either work from home or walk the streets.

Source:  AFP, “Pakistan sex workers on AIDS frontline,” Google News, November 30, 2009.

150 to 250 cubic meters of rosewood worth an estimated $800,000 is illegally harvested in Madagascar each day.

Source:  Global Witness and The Environnemental Investigation Agency, “Illegal Malagasy timber trade worth $800,000 a day, new report reveals,” Press Release, November 26, 2009.

According to officials in Russia, more than one third of all logging activities in the country is controlled by organized crime syndicates.

Source:  Alfonso Daniels, “Battling Siberia’s devastating illegal logging trade,” BBC News, November 27, 2009.

Up to 30,000 dogs are illegally smuggled across borders from Thailand and into Vietnam and Laos to be sold for its meat. The dogs are sold by traffickers for an average of $10 a dog, thus creating an estimated $3.6 Million market.

Source:  Patrick Winn, “The Dog Meat Mafia: Corruption,” GlobalPost, November 27, 2009.

Authorities seized 31 million methamphetamine pills in 2008 in the East and South East Asia region, compared to 25 million pills seized in 2007.

In addition, 8.3 tons of crystal meth was seized in 2008, compared to 7.3 tons seized in 2007.

Source:  “Patterns and Trends of Amphetamine-Type Stimulants and Other Drugs in East and South-East Asia (and neighboring regions),” UNODC, Executive Summary, November 2009.

According to a report by Save the Children, 4 out of 5 children living in an orphanage around the world has a living parent. The report states that some organizations trick or force the parents to give up their child, leading to risks of trafficking and abuse.

Source:  “Most ‘orphans’ have a living parent, says charity,” BBC News, November 24, 2009.

Authorities in the state of Texas eradicated nearly 62,000 marijuana plants in 2009, the highest amount on record.

36,280 marijuana plants were eradicated in 2008, and 40,172 were eradicated in the state in 2007.

Source:  Steve Campbell, “Texas authorities seized record crop of marijuana this growing season,” Fort Worth Star Telegram, November 23, 2009.

Russian pay an estimated $318 Billion a year in bribes, roughly one-third of the country’s GDP.

Source:  Fred Weir, “Russia corruption costs $318 billion – one-third of GDP,” Christian Science Monitor, Global News Blog, November 23, 2009.

Between 1989 to 2009, over a quarter of the Mau Forrest in Kenya, one of the nation’s most important ecological system, has been lost due to illegal logging.

Source:  Pete Browne, “With Land Evictions, Kenya Aims to Reduce Impacts on Important Ecosystem,” New York Times, Green Inc, November 23, 2009.

In 2009, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre reported that losses from counterfeit credit cards rose 22 percent to cause $19 Million (144 Million South African Rand) in losses.

Source: By Sapa, “Credit card fraud hits banking,” Times Live, November 23, 2009.