Piracy is not only a subject of successful movies or children stories, but a daily matter of concern, despite the sporadic presence in the headlines of the international media.
According to Live Piracy Map, the pirates are operating in a quite extended area. Through the Piracy Reporting Center, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the International Maritime Bureau is providing 24 hour emergency assistance on piracy cases.
UN Security Council adopted June 2008 a resolution allowing for six months "all necessary means" to repress piracy. The 23 of October 2008, the European Parliament in Strasbourg adopted a resolution on piracy on maritime piracy.
The perpetrators of such acts, whose effects on economy and maritime security are considerably threatening, but curiously not too much considered as such, are taking fully advantage of the failed states in Africa or of the high level of corruption in South-Asia. They would operate freely as long as the states alongside the shores would not be able to create common mechanism of control and surveillance. But, first, you need to build up those states.
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