The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children is a wide-ranging international agreement to address the crime of trafficking in persons, especially women and children, on a transnational level. It creates a global language and legislation to define trafficking in persons, especially women and children; assist victims of trafficking; and prevent trafficking in persons. The trafficking in persons protocol also establishes the parameters of judicial cooperation and exchanges of information among countries. 

A Parish Resource Packet entitled Human Trafficking: Modern Day Slavery is designed and offered by the Sisters of the Divine Savior by contacting stoptraffick@aol.com .

Check out the monthly “Stop Trafficking” newsletter which is sponsored by a number of religious congregations. It is available in Spanish and English and can be found at: http://homepage.mac.com/srjeanschafersds/stoptraffic/index.html. The current issue examines the trafficking of children primarily in the U.S. and Canada as well as ways to prevent child trafficking.

A Human Trafficking Resource Disc (fall, 2007) which contains a number of power point presentations and more than 120 documents on the trafficking issue was compiled by Covenant House for use by those organizations in the fight against human trafficking. It is available by contact N. Byrd at NByrd@covenanthouse.org .

For information on the Catholic Church’s response to trafficking go to: www.usccb.org/mrs/traffickingweb.shtml .

UNANIMA International, an NGO at the UN representing 16 religious congregations with 17,000 members serving in 65 countries, has recently launched a new campaign entitle STOP THE DEMAND for trafficking in women and children. Excellent material about the campaign, resources, prayer resources and ways to get involved can be found on their website: www.unanima-international.org .

The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women International (CATW) is a non-governmental organization (NG0) that promotes women’s human rights by working internationally to combat sexual exploitation in all its forms. Their website offers information about their campaigns against trafficking, a FACE book that looks at trafficking country by country, and resources. Visit them at: www.catwinternational.org .