Posted on 04/16/2013 6:08:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The economic crisis is leading to a rise in the number of people being trafficked for sex, hard labor or organ donation, the EU commission said Monday (15 April,) but the vast majority of member states have failed to implement an anti-trafficking law.
While the Czech Republic, Latvia, Finland, Hungary, Poland and Sweden have transposed the law, the remaining 21 member statesincluding Bulgaria and Romania, from where most of the victims comehave not.
EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmström put the rise in numbers partly down to Europes economic crisis, which has seen public spending slashed and GDP slump in several EU countries.
(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...
I seem to recall a certain Pope warning that the future would see human life treated as a commodity.
Where else does socialism lead?
Besides that, into early graves.
Forced labor in the Third World Countries of the EU? Who would have thunk that socialism would have drug everyone down instead of lifting everyone up?
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