by Sanjaya Dhakal
OneWorld South Asia
28 June 2004
PROUT Editor's note: There is only one reason why sex slavery is flourishing around the world today. It is due to dire economic affliction. This abject poverty of people in Nepal, for example, causes parents to sell their own children to traffickers, sometimes knowing and sometimes not knowing what is in store for them. The only solution to this problem is to change the economic system so that people will no longer have to suffer. Capitalism has not worked. Rather it is the manifestation of capitalism that we see reflected in 80 percent of the world population living in absolute poverty. Communism also has not worked, as it turned men into beasts. The crying need is the socio-economic system of PROUT. Its principles will restore dignity to all people. There will be guarantees such as jobs for everyone, a minimum livable wage, and adequate purchasing power. In a PROUT government, citizens will be able to file lawsuits against any government that does not provide them with adequate purchasing power. This right will be enshrined in every constitution. There will no longer be subordinated cooperation, with peons reporting to bosses and retaining their jobs only due to the mercy of those bosses. In PROUT, such capitalist set-ups will be replaced by PROUT cooperatives, which will guarantee all workers to work on an equal footing. All will become managers. Subordinated cooperation will be replaced by coordinated cooperation. All will have a voice and a vote. The caste/class system that is endemic to capitalism will be gone. It means, no parent will ever be forced, due to extreme poverty, to sell his child into slavery. The tragic events described in the article below indicate to us the real urgency of creating Proutist societies - so that no child will be degraded, so that every human being can walk with head held high, with self-confidence, joy and dignity.
KATHMANDU, June 28 (OneWorld) - Twelve girls returned to Nepal Sunday after a harrowing stint with a circus in India, and the nongovernmental organization that rescued them says hundreds of such children are sexually abused and made to perform risky acts in Indian circuses.
