Social and Economic Exclusion Has Baneful Consequences

Our world demands ... immediate measures for preserving and improving the natural environment and thus putting an end ... to the phenomenon of social and economic exclusion, with its baneful consequences: human trafficking, the marketing of human organs and tissues, the sexual exploitation of boys and girls, slave labor, including prostitution, the drug and weapons trade, terrorism and international organized crime.

Pope Francis Speech to the UN on September 25, 2015