Human trafficking is one of the most lucrative illicit businesses in Europe, with criminal groups making about $3 billion per year

Failure to identify and protect victims ofhuman trafficking, who are forced into the sex industry or as unpaid workers to repay their traffickers, has created a modern day slavery to which so many countries turn a blind eye. Even the UN itself has failed to protect women from sex trafficking by its own peacekeepers. Poverty Then we turn to other fundamental rights that are not being upheld for billions of individuals. The right to life may be respected by countries that protect people from arbitrary or extrajudicial killing. But the right to life goes hand-in-hand with subsistence rights. There is no point having the right to life if a person is not able to subsist. Those fundamental rights include to water, to food and to housing.