Publié mercredi 4 juin 2008 à 15h15
par
Asynjen 
dans La nouvelle Europe sociale (vu 529 fois et 0 commentaires)
Women's rights - in
my view a core socialist issue. So far there's one particular
aspect of the debate on women's rights which I think deserves a bit
more attention here on Yourspace; namely trafficking.
According to the Coalition against Trafficking in Women
500.000 women are annually trafficked into Western Europe.
Prostitution becomes the "trade" of these smuggled women - and
please notice the inverted comments: these women are slaves,
'money machines' for kingpins without too many moral qualms.
Once in a while I come across arguments in favour of trafficking:
Like the people smuggler himself who says that he's really doing
the women a favour - they get a fair chance for a better life in
Western Europe. They would have been even worse off in their home
country. From this perspective trafficking is understood as a
sort of "development aid" (again a big emphasis on the inverted
commas!) - scary that some people are capable of rationalizing
like this, right?
Luckily, such an attitude towards women and human rights is not
found among Europe's socialists. We often - and loudly - express
our concern about trafficking and the conditions of these
enslaved women. I think it's time for a European-level...
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