Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-05-23-Speech-3-083"
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"Madam President, the processes of globalisation taking place in the European Union and the world are attended by tremendous changes in ownership, culture and society.
Varying levels of economic development and living standards have led to migration on a vast scale in the search for work. According to the International Labour Organisation there are some 192 million unemployed people in the world and 86 million migrants, of whom 34 million are in the developing regions of the world.
People who are hungry are prepared to leave their homes and families to take on any work they can find, and this often puts them at the mercy of criminals. The numbers are shocking: according to the ILO, in 2004 alone some 2.54 million people were sold into forced labour, about 43% for sexual purposes.
The question this raises is: why is this happening? Why are so many countries, including some in the European Union, unable to control the problem?
The answer is simple: capital is more important than people, the rich ignore the poor. This means that globalisation and liberalisation favour …"@en1
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