UNHRC- Day One.

At the first committee the slavery problems that the world faces, were discussed by the delegates. The definition of a slavery in order to take emergent measures, tried to define most of the participants, especially after Zambia‘s and Italy‘s proposal. The Bosnian delegate talked about human trafficking that defines what slavery is in our days, in order to avoid the philosophical conversations around the definition of the problem. However, some states such as Cuba and Senegal underlined the reasons that cause this major problem and called the rest of the delegates to think about the different aspects of trafficking. Jordan‘s statement that illegal immigration provokes prostitution and other kinds of slavery added a different point of view. Generally, the delegates did not manage to find a mutual point in order to agree.

By Eteoklis Nikolaou