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Mr President, the title of today’s debate points to a modern-day tragedy on a massive scale. Every year, over 1.2 million children are trafficked, and international adoption generates annual profits of USD 20 million. Children in poor countries live in destitution and are turned out onto the streets, sexually exploited or murdered for transplantable organs. The developing world has become a den of debauchery for many developed countries.
Apart from drug and weapons trafficking, child trafficking is the best way to make money in Guatemala. The gangs involved in such trafficking advertise on the Internet, safe in the knowledge that they will remain unpunished since there is nothing in Guatemalan law to say that such underhand practices are crimes.
The particular barbarity of these criminals is apparent from the fact that mothers who have just given birth are drugged and forced to sign documents confirming that they relinquish their parental rights. Despite the growing magnitude of the problem, however, neither the Guatemalan Government nor the local authorities have taken any kind of action. From the moment of their conception, today children experience unprecedented aggression instead of love and care, and are exposed to the threats of murder, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Such practices are facilitated by the depravity of politicians, of lawyers, of officials and even of international humanitarian organisations.
John Paul II once said that care for children was the first and basic test of human relations. Our actions should not be limited to intervention and the adoption of resolutions, as commendable as we find them. Particular emphasis needs to be placed on the role played by the morally healthy family, as the latter provides children with love and a sense of security, which are indispensable prerequisites for growth and development."@en1
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