Stella
I wake to the sound of pounding. My mother is pounding groundnuts. She’s singing, her song keeping time with her...
read moreThe 2014 report from the US State Department on trafficking in various countries around the world includes an interesting report on the situation in Ireland. It notes that foreign trafficking...
Pimps, traffickers and thugs take advantage of 12-month delay Statement from Act to Prevent Trafficking Local TDs must end a 12-month delay and recommit to new laws which would put...
“The Government of Canada has become the latest to propose laws which will target pimps and johns in an effort to curb prostitution and human trafficking.” Denise Charlton, Chief Executive...
Two years ago an international group called “Operation Mobilization” began an interesting project which goes by the name “Freedom Climb Initiative.” This year it involves inviting hundreds or thousands of...
The global network of religious sisters working against human trafficking has launched a campaign to combat human trafficking at the World Cup event in Brazil. Announced during the press conference on...
by Donal Dorr A revealing account in www.examiner.com tells of the quite horrifying effects of the legalization of prostitution in Germany. Those who had advocated legalized prostitution had argued that...
by Donal Dorr Everybody agrees that trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation is a dreadful evil; and practically everybody agrees that women engaged in prostitution are at risk...
Trafficking in human organs is rife, according to the Joint Statement issued by the Global Freedom Network on March 17. It says that every year around 20,000 people are forced...
According to the Vatican Information Service (www.vis.va) on March 17 an unprecedented interfaith agreement was reached to eradicate modern slavery and human trafficking across the world by 2020. It is a...
Tradition tells us that Saint Patrick, patron Saint of Ireland, was sold as a slave at the age of sixteen and worked as a shepherd until his escape at the...