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Actress Mira Sorvino told the international community on Monday (May 13) to no longer tolerate human trafficking, calling it "slavery."
The Academy Award-winning actress gave a heartfelt speech during the high level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on human trafficking in her capacity as the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.
"Man is a brutal animal. Our cruelty and use of intelligence to dominate and exploit others of our own kind is second to none in the natural world. But isn't it the purpose of this gathered body of nation leaders, nation builders to guide us to something more than that base brutality that failure of empathy, that allows some men to sell and others to buy the bodies of children for sex who have not even reached kindergarten age?" she told the gathering of world leaders.
The Harvard educated actress has been a UN Goodwill ambassador since 2009 and has participated in many