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Trafficking and the Super Bowl January 29th, 2014
ABC News recently featured efforts to deter human trafficking around the Super Bowl. The short segment may be accessed by clicking here.
Exploitation of Kids is No Game January 27th, 2014
Covenant House has developed a powerful new website to educate people about the problem of the exploitation of children by sex traffickers in the United States. It offers infographics designed to be shared through social media.
The problem of child homelessness and exploitation is a massive and heartbreaking problem. The stories are horrific.
Please visit and share this site with everyone you can. Let’s work together to protect our kids.
Stop Trafficking! – December Issue December 16th, 2013
Read the latest issue of Stop Trafficking!, the Anti-Human Trafficking Newsletter to promote Awareness, Advocacy and Action. This issue includes the latest report from Polaris Project, information on webcam child sex tourism, serious concerns about the UN report on human trafficking, and raises awareness around boys being trafficked for sexual exploitation.
Older issues and handouts on specific subjects are also available here…
Stop Trafficking! is made possible through the supportive sponsorship of national and international congregations of women religious and their partners.
On human rights day, investors affirm responsibility of business to safeguard human rights in global supply chains December 11th, 2013
Members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility announce a month-long initiative during January, Human Trafficking Awareness month, to counter trafficking and slavery in high-risk sectors.
In commemoration of Human Rights Day 2013, members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of faith-based and socially responsible investors of which the Missionary Oblates are active members, announced a month-long campaign in January to urge fifteen companies in the food, agricultural and hospitality sectors to implement policies that will prevent human rights abuses in their global supply chains. The food/ag companies identified in the initiative are ADM, ConAgra, Costco, Darden Restaurants, Kroger, Mondelez Int’l, Target, Walmart. The hospitality companies are Choice, Delta, Hyatt, Starwood, US Airways, Wyndham, and Southwest.
The investors recently published a Statement of Principles and Recommended Practices for Confronting Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery which forms the basis of all their dialogues with companies on human rights issues.
Using International Human Rights Day as a platform to highlight potential abuses in global supply chains, the initiative will focus on a subset of companies in the food/ag and hospitality sectors and encourage the implementation of specific human rights policies.
Click here to read more »
Vatican Seminar on Human Trafficking November 15th, 2013
The following is taken, with our thanks, from the Stop Trafficking!, the newsletter opposed to human slavery supported by a broad coalition of organizations of Catholic Sisters.
Following a wish expressed by Pope Francis, the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and of Social Sciences (PASS) and the World Federation of Catholic Medical Associations (FIAMC), organized a seminar entitled, “Trafficking in Human Beings: Modern Slavery. Destitute Peoples and the Message of Jesus Christ”.
The November 2-3, 2013 seminar, held in Vatican City, brought together some seventy delegates from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, England, France, Guatemala, Ireland, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, and the USA. The UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo from Nigeria, was among the twenty-two speakers.
The sixty observers in attendance were asked to contribute concrete proposals through which the global Church could better respond to the plight of millions of enslaved peoples.
Pope Francis was directly involved in combating modern day slavery in Buenos Aires, where he actively supported the work of the Fundacion Alameda, an Argentinian organization headed by Gustavo Vera, another of the speakers. The Pope’s first trip after his election was to Lampedusa to pay tribute to the hundreds who had recently died at sea, trying to reach this island half-way between Sicily and Tunisia where many victims of human trafficking end up.
Read more about this conference and efforts to stop human trafficking in the November issue of Stop Trafficking!
