“Human
trafficking is defined as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services
through the use of force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of subjecting
that person to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.” Trafficking Victims' Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005.
If you suspect a situation involving
human trafficking, contact the
24/7 Hotline of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center:
1-888-3737-888. |
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The
Stop Trafficking newsletter is offered as a forum for exchange among religious congregations and collaborating organizations:
• to promote awareness re. the issue of human trafficking;
• to exchange means for the healing and empowerment of victims of
human trafficking; and
• to promote actions that help eliminate human trafficking.
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A free 33-page educational packet, Breaking the Snares,
is available to parish staff. It provides information on human trafficking and practical ways to involve the faith community in learning and acting against this human rights abuse.
Contact: stoptraffick@aol.com
Teachers Manual by Pierrette Boissé CND.
Contact Jeanne Bonneau CND: jbonneau@cnd-m.com |
Corporate Stance
Religious congregations and collaborators that have taken a corporate stance against human trafficking.
- Benedictine Sisters of Cottonwood, ID
- Blauvelt Dominicans
- Conference of Benedictine Prioresses
(57 monasteries)
- Congregation of Notre Dame
- Congregation of St. Agnes, Fond du Lac, WI
- Daughters of Wisdom, US Province
- Dominicans of Mission San Jose, CA
- Dominicans of Oxford, MI
- Dominicans of San Rafael, CA
- Dominicans of Sparkill, NY
- Dominicans of Springfield, IL
- Dominican Sisters and Associates of
St. Mary of the Springs, Columbus, OH
- Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, NY
- Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility’s (ICCR) Human Trafficking Subcommittee
- International Congregation of Notre Dame
- Loretto Justice and Peace Network
- Loretto Women’s Network
- Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
(Stella Maris Prov. NY)
- Religious of the Good Shepherd
- Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary
- School Sisters of Notre Dame
- Servants of the Holy Heart of Mary, USA Province
- Servants of Mary, Ladysmith, WI
- Sisters of the Divine Savior
- Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
- Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
- Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul,
Ontario Canada
- Sisters of Saint Anne St. Marie Province
USA, Canada, and Chile
- Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate
- Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia
- Sisters of St. Francis of Redwood City, CA
- Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Los Angeles
- Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambery
- Sisters of St. Joseph of Concordia, KS
- Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, CA
- Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace
- Society of the Divine Savior
(Salvatorian Priests and Brothers)
- Ursuline Sisters of the Roman Union USA-East
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Trafficking in Women and Children, an Information and Workshop Kit produced by the Justice and Peace Committee of the Union of Superiors General, Rome, is available in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian and Polish.
How to Order.
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