Children continue to fall victim to trafficking, while those who enslave and exploit them continue to avoid prosecution, a Vatican official said.
Each year, millions of children are subjected to the horrors of trafficking as leaders across the world still attempt to come up with an effective solution, Jesuit Father Michael Czerny told a conference organised by the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons, a global forum working with the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Due to inadequate protection, extreme poverty, and, in some cases, ignorance, children around the world are being reduced to objects in a "perverse market logic of supply and demand," which "is possibly the nastiest illustration of how modern capitalism at its amoral extremes is able to commoditise absolutely everything, even young lives," he said.
