Child Trafficking

UNICEF has just published an interesting, and very important, report on child trafficking in the United Kingdom. Here is the link:

http://www.unicef.org.uk/campaigns/publications/pub_detail.asp?pub_id=147

It is a must read. Trafficking (of both children and adults) and modern day slavery is a huge, huge, issue and one not widely recognised by the general public. More must be done to combat this wretched evil and blight on humanity. The UK government only belatedly signed up to the European Convention on Human Trafficking this year, and is being all too slow at implementing it. It is also questionable whether the Convention goes far enough. From the point of view of this movement, it clearly doesn't.

There are links to other anti-slavery initiatives on the main site:

http://www.cosmopolitanism.org.uk/extrabodies.htm


It is reliably estimated that there are at least 20 million human beings living in slavery across the globe, no different to the slaves of ancient Greece or Rome or the American South. Each of us must do more to combat this shocking and brutal violation of human rights and humanity itself.