At train stations and borders, Ukrainians face human trafficking threat
By Anli Serfontein – Catholic leaders warn the exodus of Ukrainian women and children presents a prime opportunity for human trafficking, and they are taking steps to protect...
Category: Human Rights
Pope: Men Must Join Fight against Human Trafficking
By Cindy Wooden – Male-female relationships based on “discrimination and submission” lead to the exploitation and humiliation of thousands of women and girls each year, Pope Francis...
Pope: To fight child labour, eliminate poverty, give adults fair wages
By Carol Glatz – Extreme poverty, the lack of employment that can support a family and desperation are the major drivers of exploitative child labour, Pope Francis...
No One Should Ever Go Hungry – Yet Millions Do
There is one war we need to fight. For without our intervention, countless people will suffer, and thousands of children will continue dying daily. The name of...
Pope Meets Nadia Murad, Genocide Survivor, Now Advocating for Afghan Women
By Carol Glatz – Pope Francis held a private audience with Nadia Murad, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and survivor of the Islamic State-led genocide in Iraq,...
St Josephine Bakhita: 12 Years a Slave
St Josephine Bakhita at a glance Name at birth: Unknown Born: c. 1869 in Olgossa, Sultanate of Darfur (Sudan) Died: February 8, 1947, in Schio, Italy Beatified: May...
Catholic Anti-Slavery Network in Australia becomes model for business
When Australia’s national customs and border law enforcement agency uploaded a Catholic document to a federal government registry monitoring modern-day slavery at the end of June, it...
Pandemic Blamed for Creating Conditions for Increased Human Trafficking
By Tom Tracy – The pandemic-related economic downturn, business closures, increase in global unemployment and reduced incomes have contributed to greater human trafficking of children, women, domestic...
Pray with the Pope: April 2021
Prayer Intention: We pray for those who risk their lives while fighting for fundamental rights under dictatorships, authoritarian regimes and even in democracies in crisis. It would...
SACBC Defends Rights of Farm Dwellers, Workers
SACBC Justice and Peace Calls On Human Rights Commission to Do More to Defend Rights Of Farm Dwellers And Farm Workers On Thursday, 11 February, SACBC Justice...
Slavery in the 21st Century
Slavery ended in the 19th century, right? Wrong. It’s an easy enough mistake to make. After all, the end of America’s civil war and the Thirteenth Amendment...
Late Rwandan Catholic Gospel Singer Awarded Human Rights Prize
By Fredrick Nzwili – Kizito Mihigo, the late Rwandan Catholic gospel singer, song writer and organist, has been honoured with Vaclav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent, an...
