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Human trading: More than one million caught in modern-day slavery
MANILA. Mar 29. Crime syndicates buy more than a million women and children annually for use as prostitutes or virtual slaves in sweatshops across the globe, the United States said today, reports Reuters.
"Trafficking (in human beings) is one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises in the world." said US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright In a taped message to an Aslan regional conference In Manila.
"This cynical and shameless trade distorts our economies (and) degrades our societies," she said.
Ralph Boyce. US deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asia and the Pacific, told the 23-nallon meeting that human trafficking had become organised crime's third largest
source of profits, after drugs and guns.
Boyce denounced the trafficking as "a modern-day slavery" and said only global and regional action could end It
A US paper distributed at the meeting said the trade in human beings "is growing rapidly" in Asia because the region's 1997-98 financial crisis squeezed economic opportunities. as well as because few traffickers were prosecuted.
Conference organizers said the three-day meeting was the first regional initiative to combat the trafficking of women and children which brings crime syndicates billions of dollars In profits annually.
More than 250.000 of those annually driven to work in subhuman conditions or forced into prostitution come from
Southeast Asia. US State Department officials said.
Another 150,000 to 200.000 come from the former Soviet Union and the rest from South Asia and Latin America, they said.
About 50.000 of the total end up in the United States.
In Europe, women 'are literally bought and sold anywhere from 15.000 to 30.000 dollars.' Anita Botti, deputy director of a US presidential council on women, told a news conference.
"In South Asia, the amount is somewhere between 3 6.000 to $ 10.000 (per woman)." Botti said.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Slazon said over 5.5 million Filipinos now worked overseas, making this country the largest supplier of manpower In the world, and
many of them had fallen prey to abuses.
"Legitimately recruited workers are promised high-paying jobs, out find themselves working as prostitutes Women travelling as tourists end up as domestic helpless . dancers or bar girls." he said.
‘Pilgrims leave for religious shrines and later surface as bonded labourers. In many marriages contracted within new religious programmes or through mail-order-bride arrangements. numerous would-be-brides are duped."
In some cases, children are sold and bought for pornography and prostitution, or their Internal organs removed for transplantation to other people, he added.
"Now Is the time to go on the offensive." Siazon said