Abolished 100 Years Ago, yet Ineradicable – a Fifth of Today's Slaves Are Employed in the Sex Industry
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On 25 September 1926, the International Convention for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade was adopted in Geneva. The prohibition of slavery became part of international law at that time. Many forms of slavery have been abolished or at least prohibited around the world over the past millennia, but it still exists today, in many forms, in many countries. It is estimated that 40-50 million people are enslaved today.
First of all, before coming to the heart of the subject, a small development is required: to abolish trafficking and to abolish slavery, it is not the same thing. And the Honourable SDN to distinguish the two phenomena in article 1 of its Convention. Slavery is defined in it as "the state or condition of an individual on whom the attributes of property rights are exercised or some of them". Trafficking, however, includes the capture, acquisition…
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