UN warns against slavery trends

UN: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon warned against the growing dreadful long list of world slavery trends.

In his message on the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, the UN Leader reminded that slavery is still a serious, unresolved scourge that exposes human vulnerability to poverty and social inequality.

Among the slavery trends he mentioned debts, humiliation, child labor, servitude, trafficking in persons and human organs, prostitution, forced marriages and child soldiers.

Ban Ki-Moon reminded that most victims are poor and excluded whose ranks consist namely of minorities and immigrants.

In his view, poverty, class and race are also the pillar of this structure and of cycles hard to break.

Therefore, the list includes gender-based discrimination, poor education, joblessness and demand for cheap work force, all of which are worsen by the global economic crisis. United Nations, Prensa Latina