Headline Dec.25/ ''' *TROUNCING* -HUMAN MISERY- TRAFFICKERS '''

''' *TROUNCING* -HUMAN MISERY- 

TRAFFICKERS '''

*THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY* -for every conceivable discipline and subject in the world, wishes everybody : A Merry Christmas. And..,

The World Students Society prays for the very well being of mankind, and for peace and prosperity in the world.

As with every single nation in the world, everything can be viewed through a variety of prisms, and a very different aspect seen through each. 

For many, many particularly looking in from the outside this view is negative. Here is how the world unfolds:

''WHEN I refused to sell my body they sold me to another brothel.'' 

This is the heart rending testimony of a 13-year-old Nepalese girl named Skye trafficked by relatives to India. Skye's story ends better than most.

Together with her sister, Skye escaped the brothel, returned to school and now works for the  Nepalese organisation which rescued her :

The globally renowned : Shakti Samuha. 

But for every survivor like Skye, thousands and thousands are suffering in silence, gagged by threat of blackmail and violence. It is the sufferings, and honor of these girls that this research writing is dedicated.

People are laboring in farms and factories, coerced into the sex trade and tricked onto the fishing boats. The range of coerced activities is equal to the huge number of places where victims are found.

TODAY, we, -the World Students Society need to be vigilant for signs of the modern day slave trade : sexually exploited and brutalised women and girls; frightened children begging on street corners; and-

Clusters of labourers squalidly living in their workplace. THAT is the harsh evidence of a crime that haunts all our societies.

In the early 21st century, how the hell did it come to this?

Large numbers of victims are trapped in a hopeless circle of migrant smuggling and trafficking. The petrol fueling these crimes is instability and insecurity.

CONFLICTS in Iraq and Syria, and all economic crisis elsewhere, have produced a tide of desperate humanity sweeping through the Middle East, North Africa and across the lethal Mediterranean.

These individuals are falling in and out of the hands traffickers and smugglers as they seek sanctuary. Thousands are dying.

LAST YEAR, The New York Declaration delivered a compelling statement from the United Nations  that refugee and migrants need protection and assistance. 

Nations agreed to return to New York in 2018 to adopt a global compact on migration. The compact will be the first negotiated agreement by governments to cover every aspect of international migration.

Migration is an issue of our times, and there is a real need to go after the root causes such as conflict, but we can all agree that refugees and migrants should not ever be treated like  *criminals*.

This is why the compact can take the lead and nations can assist by adopting and implementing the  UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its relevant protocols on trafficking in persons and migrant smuggling.

WE, And  -The World Students Society have the tools to disrupt organized crime networks through  intelligence sharing, joint operations, financial investigations and coordination across local and regional borders.

But it takes resources and unyielding commitment.

CRIMINALS are exploiting gaps in our international system that leave people defenceless and vulnerable to violence and enslavement.

Our response must be founded on the 'rule of law', and we need to work together, share responsibility and acknowledge that we can and must do more, much much more to stop human suffering.

The UNODC promotes a trust fund for trafficking victims that has helped thousands of victims  become survivors around the world.

The unique Blue Heart Campaign supports the fund and is a powerful advocacy tool to shout out the message that we all have to act, to act together and fast if the criminals are to be defeated.  

Such efforts are vital. In Mexico, UNODC's AQUIESSTOY campaign ["Here I am''], supported by the government, gives voice to victims that show trafficking is not happening on some far, distant shore, but all around us.

IF ADOPTED IN 2018, the global compact has tremendous potential to enhance safe, orderly and regular migration and deal a concerted blow against the smugglers and traffickers.

*THIS is a generational opportunity to help every human being to live in dignity*. 

*Let's dare to seize the moment*. Merry Christmas, once again to all the people in the world.

With respectful dedication Yury Fedotov, executive director UN office on Drugs and crime for the authorship and research. And to the Parents, Students, Professors and Teachers of the world.

See Ya all on !WOW! -the World Students Society & Twitter-!E-WOW! -the Ecosystem 2011:

''' Stellar Students 

Good Night and God Bless

SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless