An Economy without Human Trafficking: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER AND AWARENESS AGAINST hUMAN tRAFFICKING

An Economy without Human Trafficking: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER AND AWARENESS AGAINST hUMAN tRAFFICKING

The International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking 2021 brings into
the spotlight one of the main causes of human trafficking: the dominant economic model of
our time, whose limits and contradictions are exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic.

MATERIALS. PRAYER, POSTER, SOCIAL MEDIA…

Human trafficking is an integral part of “this economy”: victims of trafficking are as
“commodities” falling into the mechanisms of a globalization ruled by financial speculation
and competition spurred by below-cost pricing. Hence the need for a “structural and global”
perspective of human trafficking so as to dismantle those wicked mechanisms that fuel the
supply and demand of “people to exploit”, because the very heart of the economy is sick… READ +