US ambassador on trafficking: Vatican address

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. | June 1, 2011

The US ambassador on human trafficking, Luis CdeBaca, made remarks at the Vatican recently.

What we’re talking about is a modern form of slavery, and all the terminology that swirls around this unfortunate modern reality only serves to euphemize the fact that today there are by low estimates twelve and a half million, and by high estimates twenty-seven million men, women, and children living in a state of modern slavery.

If you have not watched the HBO special on trafficking in China, I urge you to consider viewing it. I did not want to see it, and I lost sleep after watching it. But consider the discomfort a small acknowlegment of the pain endured by the poor children abducted every day, and an act of solidarity with their grieving parents.

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