CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES

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CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES

• TRAFFICKING
• AND
• COUNTER-TRAFFICKING

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• THE TRADE IN HUMAN PERSONS
• CONSTITUTES A SHOCKING OFFENCE
• AGAINST HUMAN DIGNITY AND A GRAVE
• VIOLATION OF FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN
• RIGHTS. IT IS AN AFFRONT TO VALUES
• SHARED BY ALL CULTURES AND PEOPLES, VALUES ROOTED
  IN THE VERY
• NATURE OF THE HUMAN PERSON.
• POPE JOHN PAUL II, MAY 15, 2002

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UN DEFINITION OF TRAFFICKING

• Trafficking in persons is the recruitment,
• Transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of
  persons, By means of threat,
• Force, abduction, fraud, deception or the
• Abuse of power or the giving or receiving
• Of payments or benefits to achieve the
• Consent of a person for the purpose of ex-
• Ploitation. Exploitation includes forms of sexual
• Exploitation, forced labor, slavery or removal of
  organs.

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TRAFFICKING CONTRADICTS

• - DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
• - PERSONS FREEDOM TO CHOOSE
• - CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING
• - GLOBAL SOLIDARITY
• - IT IS A SOCIAL SIN

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STATISTICS

• 1.Trafficking is a 10 billion dollar industry.
• 2.It is second after drug trafficking and
• now more lucrative than arms trade.
• 3.There are 700,000 to 2M people trafficked
• around the world.
• 4.15,000 to 17,000 people are trafficked to
• the US annually.
• 5. Women and children are the majority of
• trafficked persons globally.

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Causes contributing to Trafficking

• Elimination of social safety nets.
• Fluidity of capital
• Labor standards and cost of production
• Corruption
• Economic migration no legal freedom to move to
  other countries for work.
• Gender impact of Migration
• Emergencies/HIV/AIDS
• Gender Discrimination
• Education

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Country Examples

• INDIA SR. JEANNE DEVOS,I.C.M.
• 1. WOMEN AND CHILDREN
• 2. SEX WORK AND DOMESTIC SLAVERY
• BRAZIL MR. JOSEPH KELLY, CRS
• 1. AGRICULTURE AND COAL PITS
• EASTERN EUROPE AND THE BALKANS
• 1. BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL

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PROGRAMS TO COUNTER TRAFFICKING

• EDUCATION
• OPPORTUNITIES FOR GIRLS AND Education on Workers
  Rights.
• ECONOMIC POLICIES
• CREATE OPTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS.
• POLICIES, LAWS AND PRACTICES
• Encourage states to monitor laws protecting
  persons susceptible to trafficking.
• MIGRANTS
• A. Safeguard migrants both nationally and
  internationally.
• REDUCE THE DEMAND FOR EXPLOITATIVE PRACTICES
  AND THE
• NEED FOR SLAVERY.

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OVERALL GOALS

• PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN TRAFFICKED
• NEED THE FOLLOWING
• RECOVERY - REPATRIATION -REINTEGRATION (esp.
  Women)
• TRAFFICKING NEEDS TO BE
• PREVENTED PERSONS PROTECTED
• AND TRAFFICKERS PROSECUTED.

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VATICAN AND THE UN

• THE VATICAN HAS RATIFIED THE UN
• PROTOCOL ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD
• LEGISLATION ON THE LOCAL, NATIONAL
• AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS NEEDS TO
• BE PASSED AND MONITORED.
• CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES COMMITMENT TO
• GLOBAL SOLIDARITY AND CATHOLIC SOCIAL
• TEACHING IS ENHANCED BY A COMMITMENT
• TO THE DIGNITY OF PERSONS.