Steve McQueen, director of this year’s Oscar winner for best film “12 Years A Slave,” mentioned in his acceptance speech last month that 21 million people are living in slavery today. That quoted figure comes from the 2012 report issued by the United Nation’s International Labor Organization (ILO) that has been attempting to gather international data for over a decade now. In the Asia-Pacific region where most of the world’s forced laborers come from at 56%, an estimated 11.7 million people, … [Read more...]
Global Human Trafficking, a Modern form of Slavery
June 29, 2014 by Team Celebration
Filed Under: AFRICA, ASIA, CARIBBEAN, CENTRAL AMERICA, EURASIA, EUROPE, FEATURED, FORMER SOVIET UNION, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AMERICA, OCEANIA, SOUTH AMERICA, Uncategorized, WOMEN GENDER EQUITY ISSUES Tagged With: a Modern form of Slavery, child slavery, children, domestic abuse, domestic slavery, Global Human Trafficking, global issues, ILO, modern slavery, sex trade, sexual abuse, Sexual slavery, UN, UNODC, women.
UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, addressed the Conference
November 28, 2012 by Team Celebration
Irina Bokova highlights the role of education to tackle the challenges of trafficking of women UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, addressed the Conference entitled “Trafficking of women: exploring effective policies and mechanisms to prevent it through education”, held on 26 November at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. This event, organized on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, celebrated every year on 25 November, seeks to raise awareness … [Read more...]
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