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Soccer used for human trafficking
Football is being used as a vehicle for human trafficking, with at least 4,000 young players illegally shipped from Africa to Europe to pursue dreams of a career in the game. The Star March 27 2012 reports.
Foot Solidaire, a French organisation that works to protect young footballers from exploitation, said it is dealing with at least 20 new cases each week and has called on Fifa to act. Parents are spending thousands of pounds to send their sons to Europe in the hope they will earn lucrative contracts, but the teenagers are then abandoned on the street.
In a special TV report shown on Sky Sports News last night, a Fifa-licensed agent in Cameroon was exposed offering to sell 14- and 15-year-olds for £25,000. A Fifa statement said: “Should any evidence be made available of any wrongdoing or abuse of Fifa’s regulations, we would naturally
Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, forced labour, or a modern-day form of slavery.
#Human trafficking in South Africa is a serious problem and warrants intervention on all fronts, according to a study released at a National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) conference on human trafficking, ending today (24 March 2010).
#Human trafficking in South Africa is a serious problem and warrants intervention on all fronts, according to a study released at a National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) conference on human trafficking, ending today (24 March 2010).
This is where South Africa has to stand together and look into this problem. Are we the public relations practioners of the country doing something about it? What can we as PRP's do to campaign against these problem?
unfortunately tumz we can do little else but complain who is going to tell a desperate 15year old who's only dream has been to play football and give his family a good life that he shouldn't listen to the promises of a football agent selling him the dream of life in Europe when i was young all i wanted was to be the next Messi and no-matter how dangerous you would of told me going overseas wcould be i would of done it gladly without even thinking twice
ReplyDeleteThat is why I am encouncaraging PRP's to interviene since this is a big matter in Africa.
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