“DEMAND AS ROOT CAUSE FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING – THE ROLE OF CONSUMERS IN PREVENTING AND COMBATING HT”

The very high demand for very cheap prod­ucts, the ruth­less inter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion and the com­plex­i­ty of the inter­na­tion­al net­works of sub­con­trac­tors linked to this glob­al­iza­tion with­out brakes or rules has cre­at­ed, as nev­er before in his­to­ry, many oppor­tu­ni­ties for crim­i­nals to pro­duce goods and ser­vices with slaves. How to edu­cate demand and encour­age pro­duc­ers to strict­ly con­trol their pro­duc­tion chains?

INTERNATIONAL WEBINARS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING
IN THE LIGHT OF THE 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF “LAUDATO SI”
AND OF THE NEW “FRATELLI TUTTI” ENCYCLICAL