Migrants
“Europe cannot continue to look away from the plague of trafficking. Every child and adult who is trapped in this form of modern-day slavery, framed in fear, abuse and threat, is one victim too many”. Caritas Europa said this in a statement today, calling for “more legal instruments at national and local levels to act quickly and save victims of trafficking”. “For many – it underlined -, the idea of returning home from where they fled or even getting killed is more horrendous than remaining in enslavement”. “Europe must put an end to this – Caritas Europa stated -. Safe and legal pathways to Europe can play a key role in eradicating this criminal activity”. “For trafficked children, it is even worse”, Geneviève Colas, Caritas Europa’s expert in trafficking in human beings, recalled: “Their situation is just the top of a tragic iceberg that Europe must address very urgently”.
