The students assumed the problem was a distant one, but soon learned the crimes hid in plain sight all around them....
[caption id="attachment_14605" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Sister Jeanne Christensen (left) with Kris Wade, executive director and co-founder of the Kansas City Justice Project, at Missouri State Capitol for Human Trafficking Education Day.[/caption] [SISTERS OF MERCY MERCED, June 6, 2023] -- "I would not be the person I am...
Incarcerating Human Trafficking Victims is an Injustice Sister Sally Duffy, SC In August of 2018 Sasha Naiman, deputy director of Ohio Justice and Policy Center (OJPC), contacted me asking if I would write a letter to Governor John Kasich. I agreed to also engage other Women Religious...
Date: May 31, 2023 Contact: Christine Commerce, AEHT Communications Director, Christine@SistersAgainstTrafficking.org, 321-750-4996 OR Kathy Dempsey, NAC Communications & Advocacy Consultant, kathydempsey8@gmail.com, 202-359-4379 MEDIA ADVISORY … MEDIA ADVISORY Briefing To Highlight the Nexus Between Human Trafficking and Forced Migration Through Survivor Stories and the Voices of Those on the Ground WHAT: You...
DATE: May 10, 2023 CONTACT: Christine Commerce, Communications Director, Christine@SistersAgainstTrafficking.org; Cell: 321-750-4996 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE … FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AEHT Announces Human Trafficking Teen Video Contest Winners Holmdel, NJ -- Students around the United States had a chance to display their talent, earn cash prizes and educate teens about...
(OSV News) — Just over 10 years ago, Sister Margaret Nacke — a Sister of St. Joseph of Concordia, Kansas — was living in Belleville, a Kansas town known as “the crossroads of America,” where U.S. Highways 36 and 81 intersect. On a December day in...
Human trafficking and homelessness Sister Michelle Loisel, DC We know that sex trafficking is the crime of using force, fraud, and/or coercion for the purpose of sexual exploitation or to induce another individual to sell sex. Labor trafficking is the crime of using force, fraud, and/or coercion...
For decades, travellers have been embarking on ‘voluntourism’ trips to developing countries. These kinds of trips offer placements for travellers in many different sectors and many volunteers end up working in orphanages. While people may have a genuine desire to help disadvantaged children, some end up fuelling...
Date: April 25, 2023 Contact: Christine Commerce, Communications Director, Christine@SistersAgainstTrafficking.org Phone: 321-750-4996 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE … FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Catholic Sisters Celebrate 10 Years of Forming Nationwide Effort To Combat Trafficking [caption id="attachment_17204" align="alignright" width="519"] Jeanne Christensen, RSM; left, Kathleen Bryant, RSC; Geraldine Nowak, OSF; Anne Victory, HM: Ann Oestreich,...
The Real Cost of Migrant Labor in the U.S. By Christine Commerce When we think of child labor, do we conjure up images of children in India working 12-hour days making rugs? Do we have images of youth who are supporting their families by farming the land...
