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Funds Available to Help Victims of Modern Slavery January 22nd, 2009
Are you involved in a program to help victims of modern slavery?
The United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery allocates project grants (for a maximum of US$15,000), for programs of humanitarian, legal and financial assistance to individuals whose human rights have been severely violated as a result of contemporary forms of slavery. Contemporary forms of slavery include trafficking, sexual slavery, child labor and child servitude, debt bondage, serfdom and forced labor, forced marriage and sale of wives etc.
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Vatican Dossier on Immigration Available January 21st, 2009
Agenzia Fides, the Vatican’s information news service of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples has issued a 12-page dossier on “The Question of Immigration in the United States of America.” The dossier, published in November 2008, examines the history and economic spurs for immigration in American history. The dossier makes a specific example of current immigration policy along the U.S.-Mexico border and praises the U.S. Catholics Bishops for their leadership on behalf of immigrants.
Doha Financing for Development Conference Calls for Greater Development Financing Despite Economic Crisis January 14th, 2009
Seamus Finn, OMI and Sr. Zelia Cordeiro SSPS of VIVAT International at the Doha Conference
The Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus was held in Doha, Qatar, on 29 November – 2 December 2008. The Conference adopted the Doha Declaration on Financing for Development with three key messages:
- strong commitment by developed countries to maintain their ODA targets irrespective of the current financial crisis;
- recognition that the United Nations has a vital role to play in addressing new challenges and emerging issues in financing for development; and
- decision to hold a UN Conference at the highest level on the impact of the current financial and economic crisis on development.
Learn more in this summary of the Doha Conference from the NGLS and FFD Secretariats…
January 11, 2009 — Human Trafficking Awareness Day January 9th, 2009
Sunday is Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the U.S. A resolution passed by the US Senate on June 22, 2007 made January 11th a day of awareness and vigilance for the countless victims of Human Trafficking around the world.
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National Migration Week Materials available on-line in English and Spanish January 5th, 2009
National Migration materials are now available on-line in English as well as Spanish.
