Human Trafficking
Permission to be Human: Violation of Migrant Workers
Mar 24, 2026
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 24 March as the “International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims.”
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ACRATH Meeting, 25 February 2026
Mar 02, 2026
2026 is looking to be a busy year as ACRATH continues its work on human trafficking, awareness through its schools partnership program, advocacy work with PALM scheme workers, and a new working group set to facilitate workshops for the Pacific region.
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2026 International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking
Feb 08, 2026
Today we remember all victims of human trafficking. May the systems of evil and greed that exploit people for power be dismantled through the committed work of churches, faith groups, organisations, and survivors like Saint Josephine, who were able to arise from their captivity and help others restore…
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World Day Against Trafficking in Persons - July 30, 2025
Jul 30, 2025
The 2024 Columban General Assembly Acts states “our solidarity with migrants, refugees, trafficked persons, internally displaced people, and asylum seekers includes advocating in solidarity with them and people of other faiths and worldviews for their rights and dignity. This is where God is calling…
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Overcoming poverty by respecting human rights
Sep 11, 2024
Nick had to pay the debt owed to Nomad, so he had to sell drugs also. He had no education to get a job. He was caught by a police undercover buyer. He was spared extrajudicial execution, unlike 30,000 others allegedly killed by police as part of a massive crime against humanity being investigated by…
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World Day Against Trafficking in Persons - July 30, 2022
Jul 30, 2022
When they asked Mr Bani for their wages, he refused and threatened to refer them to the police and have them deported. On occasions, they were only provided with one meal a day.
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World Day Against Child Labour
Jun 12, 2022
Pope Francis, in his 2015 World Peace Day Message, reminds us of what Pope Benedict XVI wrote in Caritas in Veritate (n. 66): that every person should “realise that purchasing is always a moral – and not simply an economic – act”. As we mark this year’s World Day Against Child Labour let us make slavery-free…
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Slavery-free Easter chocolate campaign
Mar 07, 2022
Pope Francis says, “Every person ought to have the awareness that purchasing is always a moral – and not simply an economic – act."
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We were all strangers once
Oct 04, 2021
I was shocked when I received a message from her saying that Henry’s father had been killed in a car accident. She asked me to relay the terrible news and console him.
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World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
Aug 04, 2021
Pope Francis, who frequently speaks out against human trafficking, says, “Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the Body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity.”
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World Day Against Child Labour - June 12
Jun 12, 2021
152 million children, almost one in ten of all children worldwide, aged 5 to 17, are in child labour. Child labour has decreased by 38% since 2000. However, the current situation with Covid 19 threatens the hard work done to reverse this problem with many children needing to work to help their families…
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Columban Message on the World Day of Prayer for Migrants and Refugees
Sep 22, 2020
We add our voices calling for just and dignified legal and social policies and protections for all people on the move, especially those most vulnerable.
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Justice delayed is justice denied
Sep 22, 2020
Over a period of seven weeks, the workers worked on six different farms. When they were not paid their salaries, they asked their employer who was the contractor for their wages.
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A home away from home
Sep 22, 2020
On my visits to Warrnambool I sat with the Timorese workers to answer any questions they had about the Pacific Labour Scheme and their work rights and to give them information on Australian laws.
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Human trafficking is a global challenge
Sep 22, 2020
The eight teenagers are slowly recovering from trauma and discovering that they are good, have rights and dignity and a better future. With therapy and education, they are emerging from a dark fog of ignorance to the light of understanding.
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Human trafficking is a global challenge
Sep 14, 2020
The eight teenagers are slowly recovering from trauma and discovering that they are good, have rights and dignity and a better future. With therapy and education, they are emerging from a dark fog of ignorance to the light of understanding. With the support of agencies and individuals who care for the…
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Temporary Migration Inquiry
Aug 23, 2020
Columbans contributed to the writing of the ACRATH’s submission to the Senate Select Committee on Temporary Migration.
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When the light shines again
Aug 12, 2020
Fr Shay Cullen writes about how a young boy, rescued from illegal detention in the Philippines, is learning to rebuild his life with the help of the Columbans. He tells of another young boy who was rescued from a gangster drug dealer.
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Coronavirus threat to jailed children
May 20, 2020
Columban missionary Fr Shay Cullen, President and Founder of the Preda* Foundation, appeals for the release of the children jailed in the Metro Manila and Central Luzon detention centres who are in danger of contracting the Coronavirus. The infection is sweeping through the jail system
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Threads Of Hope - Remembering the workers of Rana Plaza
Apr 24, 2020
On 24 April 2013, an eight-story commercial building called Rana Plaza collapsed near the capital, Dhaka in Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring approximately 2500. The victims were all mainly garment workers.
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