Human rights speech

Human Right Speech

Hello everyone, thank you for being here.

Today, human trafficking is the 3rd most profitable criminal industry in the world, making 150 billion $ annually, just behind weapon trafficking and drugs and is ever growing. There are more slaves today than there ever was. In 2014 we could enumerate between 21 and 36 million of people held as slaves worldwide with 68% of them are labour slaves, 22% of them are sex slaves and 10% of them are state-imposed labour slaves.

How, you’ll ask, is it possible? In a modern world like ours, when the human rights are perfectly defined by our international laws? You may think that they must be in these countries plagued by antic politics and customs and definitely not in our democratic countries. You’d be wrong.

At this hour, between 57.000 and 63.000 people are enslaved in the USA alone. There was only 5748 cases that were reported with 1012 cases that are reported in California. Out of these 5748 people, because there are not only cases, they are human beings, 4803 of them were women, 1828 of them were children and 1608 are actually US Citizens. But didn’t President Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, issued the Emancipation Proclamation and declared that all the people that were enslaved in the USA were to be free? Well it isn’t working perfectly well.

Currently, 99% of all modern-day slaves are never to be saved and when they are saved, they are cursed with anxiety, paranoia, PTSD, depression and horribly low self-esteem. The average age and gender of a slave, especially a sex slave, is a 13 year old girl…Could you imagine? Your baby sister, your cousin, your child or even your friend being stripped of her dignity and of all of her fundamental rights as a human being? Tortured and raped every night for 5$?

No. We can’t. You cannot process the fact that humans all around the world are the prisoners of monsters and facing, every day, torture and death. We stay in our protective bubble away from all of the problems of the world and do nothing. We need to stand up, it is time to get out of our comfort zone and grant these people the inalienable right to protection. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter” said Martin Luther King Jr and yes, we need to demand greater freedoms, stronger respect and more compassion for human kind. All together we shall be able to make a change and make the world a better place for the next generation.

Thank you for listening.