UNITED NATIONS: Twenty-one million women, men and children worldwide are trapped in slavery, denied the right to live and work in freedom, dignity and equality, the United Nations International Labour Organisation (ILO) said in a statement on the occasion of the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
In his message, marked annually on Dec 2, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on world leaders, businesses and civil society alike to “banish the barbaric practices” of human trafficking, sexual exploitation, the worst forms of child labour, forced marriage and the forced recruitment of children for use in armed conflict.
“Each day women are trafficked, sold and locked in brothels. Every day young girls are forcibly married, sexually abused or exploited as domestic workers,” Mr Ban explained.
“Men, separated from their families, are still being locked in clandestine factories, working in situations of bonded labour with negligible wages and remote chances of ever repaying their debts,” the UN chief added. The International Day for the Abolition of Slavery marks the General Assembly’s adoption on Dec 2, 1949, of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others.
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