President of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Pace spoke out against human trafficking, and encouraged youths to be courageous in the face of ridicule.
Coleiro Preca yesterday received foreign students at San Anton Palace as part of an Erasmus+ Project being coordinated by Cross Culture International Foundation.
Further adding that human trafficking is truly eroding our universal human rights, and encouraged her young crowd, "to continue standing up together, encouraging others, to work in synergy, to endeavour as much as you can, in each and every country that you come from, to make people more aware, as some people are completely oblivious to the fact that human trafficking exists."
"I have confidence in our young people. We need to change the world, we need to change mentalities, we need to bring change to our communities. The world needs young activists for peace because trafficking disturbs our peace, it brings inequalities, it brings all sorts of poverty, it brings all sorts of discrimination," she stated.
Whilst reminding the students that human trafficking, inequalities and poverty were on the United Nations' Agenda 2030, she continued, "Please thrive on each other's courage to be activists now, so that tomorrow we will have some confidence in the fact that there will be leaders who will have open eyes, leaders who are being pro-active in eradicating human trafficking."
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