Imposed vulnerability is Human Trafficking!

Storytelling for Human Rights by Oana Maroti

Today's lesson: If you are in a tremendous situation, don't expect social services to give support.

Ousman is losing hope, as he declared today. He hardly has a voice, and he is on the streets.

I tried to help Ousman, and today, I made a train trip with him from Barcelona to Terrassa, where he was last registered, but the person in charge never looked for him. From one office we were redirected via a closed communication game, from not checking the name in the computer, to constantly changing the person we were supposed to talk to. In the end, we had to make conversation with 7 people. They tried to convince us that they would call Ousman, even if he has no phone. I have specified that he has no phone and ended in offending me…They offended him, too.

Some individual named Ramon even had the nerve to n to d Ousman to be on the streets, the Ramon character immediately replied in the most non-humanistic approach that he needs to consult a head doctor… We went there as in an emergency to search for help, yet the service of the concerned institution is way in parallel with the subject.

Closing communication, trying to intimidate, and the whole dynamics that these institutions are showing is the reverse of what is supposed to be. From my part, I wish that Ramón person loses his job ASAP. Such an individual is a concern in a support department.

I was practically told to take him and do whatever. So, if you need to dominate a person, make them work for you, the streets are full of people left in oblivion and hungry…

What kind of human rights support is this? The imposed vulnerability is human trafficking!

Cataluña doesn't cease to surprise me in a very bad way. I must confess that such an inhumanistic, illogical, and unbehaved approach as in here is rare.

Human rights responsables, at the EU level, please take action! Lawyers are needed. This kind of treatment can not be legal.