International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

The problem of human trafficking outraged the world community until December 2, 1949. It was on this date that the General Assembly of the Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others adopted a landmark resolution. The fundamental objective of this decision was the complete elimination of all forms and types of slavery: human trafficking, sexual exploitation, the terrible use of child labor, forced marriages, the sale of brides, the inheritance of widowed women, the targeted recruitment of children to achieve success in military operations. Over a long period of time, slavery gradually transformed and took various forms. It's worth noting that the older forms of traditional slavery still exist today, but some other variants have taken a completely different turn. Thus, serf labor and the debt laws of nature remained in their place and have a slightly different direction vector. Forced labor of domestic servants, hard labor in the construction industry, in the clothing industry and agricultural production. World analysts claim that human trafficking in the modern world ranks third in terms of profitability. Criminal activity is second only to arms and drug trafficking. Sexual slavery (“involuntary prostitutes”) is the scourge of the 21st century. Thousands of women fall into the trap of an insidious and cruel business system that has swallowed up all the human-inhabited continents of the planet. Large cities consist of a complex structure of a vile type of service, which, unfortunately, is in great demand. Girls and women are sold in batches to eastern harems, where they are forcibly placed on a drug needle. A large number of public organizations are actively involved in this issue. They not only identify facts of human rights violations and initiate criminal cases, but also rehabilitate victims. After all, it is quite easy to break a person both physically and mentally. The International Labor Organization (ILO) states that there are more than 20 million victims of forced labor in the 3rd millennium. Thus, during the period of the Chechen campaigns in the Caucasus, there was a slave market that accumulated a huge number of captured soldiers and civilians. Another more recent example is the Islamic State market, where people act as living bargaining chips for trade transactions. This form of business brings in huge amounts of money. Illegal profits around the world reach 150 billion a year. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, the UN calls on participating countries to make maximum efforts to combat the worst “infection” of humanity. Discrimination against a person's personality has the last stage of cynicism and sinfulness. The governments of the leading countries of the world are simply obliged to focus on this problem and support the project of healing humanity. It was for this purpose that December 2 was established as the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.