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Demand for forced labor increasing in EU
EU Observer ^ | 15.04.13 @ 16:45 (April 15) | Honor Mahony

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 states—including Bulgaria and Romania, from where most of the victims come—have not. …

EU home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmström put the rise in numbers partly down to Europe’s economic crisis, which has seen public spending slashed and GDP slump in several EU countries. …

(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: euempire; eussr; humantrafficking; slavery

1 posted on 04/16/2013 6:08:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I seem to recall a certain Pope warning that the future would see human life treated as a commodity.


2 posted on 04/16/2013 6:12:36 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Olog-hai

Where else does socialism lead?


3 posted on 04/16/2013 6:56:45 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Besides that, into early graves.


4 posted on 04/16/2013 6:59:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

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?


5 posted on 04/16/2013 7:00:09 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Team: Progressives, Margret Sanger, Josef Mengele and the Butcher of Philadelphia)
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