"Human Trafficking: Is the human being for sale?" - Editorial in Review no. 95 - 2nd quarter 2014 - Roberto Marinucci
"Human Trafficking: Is the human being for sale?" - Editorial in Review no. 95 - 2nd quarter 2014 - Roberto Marinucci
According to recent estimates, around thirty million people in the world are victims of human trafficking. These are men, women, children and adolescents subjected to forced labor, sexual exploitation, illegal adoption, organ removal or other forms of compulsory activity (e.g. begging or forced marriage). These human beings are treated as objects, reduced to mere merchandise or instruments of production, thus concealing their subjectivity, their rights and their dignity as human beings.
Human trafficking is not a peculiarity of contemporary times. The history of Brazil and humanity teaches us that people have always been trafficked or enslaved. However, if in the past the legitimization of slavery was related to war (prisoners of war), ethnic, racial, sexist or economic factors (debt slaves), today, after the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) ("All people are born free and equal in dignity and rights", "No one shall be held in slavery or servitude, slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms"), how can we justify the commercialization of human beings?
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