Combating Trafficking as Modern-Day Slavery: A Matter of Rights, Freedoms and Security 2010 Annual Report of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
- Document number
- 2597
- Date
- 2010
- Title
- Combating Trafficking as Modern-Day Slavery: A Matter of Rights, Freedoms and Security 2010 Annual Report of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
- Author/publisher
- Organization For Security And Co-operation In Europe (OSCE)
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Human trafficking, Slave Labour, Sexual Exploitation, Begging, Slavery, Servitude, Forced Labour, Removal of organs, Debt bondage, Trafficking forms, Smuggling, Labour exploitation, Domestic labour, Slavery-like practices; Agricultural labour;
- Summary
- As the OSCE Special Representative and Co-ordinator, I have a unique opportunity to step up efforts to prevent and combat human trafficking, by promoting consistent implementation of the Organization's advanced political commitments, making full use of the cross-dimensional nature of my mandate, and further developing the OSCE's leading role, especially concerning a human rights-centred approach to anti-trafficking policy. This Annual Report gives me the opportunity to present an overview of the phenomenon today, the activity of my Office, and some ideas for future work. On this important occasion, I would like to reiterate, as my predecessors did, that a decent society cannot live with trafficking, be it a girl compelled to prostitute herself to pay off her debt, be it a young man working 14 hours a day in a tomato or strawberry field only to find that he will not be paid, or be it a little girl confined in a household, starved and overworked, and bearing abuse from all the members of the household where she is enslaved. After all, defending human rights and fundamental freedoms is about standing by someone who has been subjected to a manifest injustice.
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