"NO TO A
WORLD OF ENSLAVED AND UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE”
16 April:
International Day against Child Slavery
400 million child slaves:
a Political and Trade Union Crime
400 million child slaves:
a Political and Trade Union Crime
Christian Cultural Movement's
2013 Communiqué
2013 Communiqué
18th Anniversary of IQBAL MASIH’s murder, Christian non-violent militant for Justice in the fight against Child Slavery in the world. Murdered on 16th April 1995, in Pakistan, when he was 12. [1983-1995] Testimony of true activist and solidarity trade- unionism.
Every day we can find products made by enslaved
children in our homes, in our streets, in shopping malls, in our consumption. At
present, millions of children breath the smoke of rubbish landfills, they risk
their lives as pearl divers, they work in the mines to get the minerals for our
cosmetics, for new technologies, they are kidnapped to become child soldiers,
they live amidst bullets and rapes in the streets, they are used for the trade
in human organs, in brothels, in sweatshop,... Children who have been deprived
of their childhood and education. Children who are subjugated, enslaved,
humiliated.
There are more slaves at present than at any other time in history.
Children are forced to participate in the international planning of work,
resulting from a perverse economic system. This world crime, far from
disappearing, is on the rise in number and cruelty. Let us not be carried away
by a manipulated language: they are child slaves, they are not child workers!
When we talk about an economic crisis in international forums and in the media,
no one says that this crisis will be paid by the poor, and especially by the
children who will be aborted or subjected to more bondage.
The causes of this crime have a clear economic dimension: a radically
unfair international economic system, tailored
to the requirements of large multinational companies (including the Spanish
ZARA and El Corte Ingles, which have been reported recently) and of a global
financial system seeking to maximize profits at all costs and having no qualms
about using child slave labor.
Yet, child slavery is primarily a political and trade union crime. The
political system, which is supported by large international organizations (UN,
UNICEF, ILO...) and by all the parties represented in Parliament, has
legitimized this situation and has done nothing to put an end to this crime.
All the reforms being carried out by Europe are causing more slavery and
a greater growth of the informal economy, which drives millions of children out
of school and into sweatshops, agricultural fields, mines and warehouses.
Also, this drama is caused by a unionism that has betrayed its history of
solidarity fight, in enriched countries with its silence about child slavery; thus
making evident their complicity and their lack of solidarity with the impoverished
workers of the world and of Spain.
Child slavery is the first problem facing the world of work, and as well
as unemployment, it is the result of a savage economic system.
Unemployment and Child Slavery have the same causes and therefore common
solutions.
Child slavery is a moral and political problem, and its solution can only
come from these two fields: the Moral and the Political ones. We therefore
demand that unions and political parties denounce the causes of child slavery.
We must defend children’s right to have a school, an education, a
family, to be able to play and become Persons.
For this
reason we propose the immediate and urgent abolition of child slavery, which is
possible today as well as in the past if we fight together, if we promote
collective solidarity awareness that can transform the lack of political and
Trade Union will. Let's raise public opinion of solidarity that can make it possible
to eradicate child slavery!
On 16 April 1995, a child slave, Iqbal Masih, was murdered in Pakistan
because he had fought against child slavery. For this reason, we call on young
people and adults to come out to the street to fight against child slavery. It
is now 18 years of rallies and solidarity marches against child slavery in
Spain and Latin America.
April 16 is a day for solidarity,
the International Day against Child Slavery
the International Day against Child Slavery
On the 18th anniversary
of Iqbal Masih’s murder,
we want to raise our voices together:
we want to raise our voices together:
Justice for child slaves!
Long live the poor of the world!
More than 30 rallies against child slavery will
take place in different places in Spain and Latin America.
You can get further information in your closest
Solidarity and Culture House
(Casa de Cultura y Solidaridad)
(Casa de Cultura y Solidaridad)
or on the web: http://www.solidaridad.net and http://www.solidaridad.net/Iqbal
Organized by:
Movimiento Cultural Cristiano (MCC)- Christian
Cultural Movement
Camino Juvenil Solidario (CJS)- Solidarity Youth Path
Partido Solidaridad y Autogestión Internacionalista
(SAIn)-
Internationalist Self-management and Solidarity
Political Party
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