Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Abeid, for your very empowering testimony.
Slavery is very much alive today. Today our subcommittee has undertaken a study on human trafficking, specifically sex trafficking, within Southeast Asia. The more we study this, the more we understand that trafficking in persons is very much alive across the world. When we talk about slavery, especially here in North America, we take examples from the slavery in the United States and in Canada of Africans, and now Canadians or Americans.
Personally, one thing for me that was a lesson was the level of education and also the grassroots participation with respect to denouncing slavery as an accepted norm within a society.
Can you speak a little bit about the grassroots everyday Mauritian who takes part in slavery within the country? What steps can we take to further educate not only those who are enslaved but also those who are enslaving at the grassroots level, who are taking part in this process?