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The trafficking of women and children and men, too, as modern slaves is the third biggest earning illegal business in the world today after illegal arms trading and drug. It is a problem that is getting worse as global poverty grows in poor countries and millions more are vulnerable to any kind of false promises of a good job.
If ever there is any single piece of evidence that illustrates the gross inequality in the Philippines, it is the treatment of those innocent children accused of crimes and rich politician behind bars. It is a rare once-in-a-life-time event when a rich politician is convicted and jailed for child sex abuse or any other serious crime. Thousands of innocent young people have been arrested, jailed and left to languish in prisons and police station jails with adult criminals and pedophiles in filthy conditions. So just to get one powerful Philippine politician behind bars to serve his sentence gives hope to victims.
There has been one more G8 summit, gathering the world’s most powerful leaders. Some more rhetoric moments.
Twenty-five years ago, some friends and I professed a vow of nonviolence, as Gandhi did a hundred years ago. Not long afterwards, Pax Christi asked Eileen Egan and me to draft a vow, which they offered to Pax Christi members as a way to dedicate our lives to the Gospel path of nonviolence. Since then, tens of thousands have professed it.
