Human Trafficking
Church activists struggle against growing slavery-like labor in Brazil
The number of people working in slavery-like conditions in Brazil is the highest in 11 years. With 1,443 identified cases from Jan. 1 to June 14, the first half of 2023 already has the highest number of such occurrences in ...
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Advocates say events like Super Bowl should raise awareness of human trafficking
SILVER SPRING, Md. (OSV News) — The Feb. 12 Super Bowl “sadly serves as a danger zone for sex trafficking, labor trafficking and domestic violence,” said the executive director of the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good ...
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Franciscan Peacemakers: On the Front Lines of Human Trafficking
The Franciscan Peacemakers have been helping women struggling with prostitution and poverty for over 25 years. Now some of the women they’ve helped are giving back.
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The Super Bowl and Human Trafficking
Some 100 million Americans will tune in to this weekend's Super Bowl, but few will consider the crimes lurking on its periphery.
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The Remarkable Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe
Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe’s been featured in Time magazine and on CNN for her humanitarian work, but her faith, not fame, is what fuels her efforts to rescue abducted girls in South Sudan and Uganda.
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St. Josephine Bakhita—A Model of Faith
Her kidnappers gave her the name Bakhita, meaning "fortunate. " Her life in captivity wasn't quite so. Born in Darfur in 1869, Josephine Bakhita was taken by Arab slave traders when she was 9.
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Religious Sisters Who Fight Human Trafficking Honored for Their Work
In late October in London, the spotlight was on the exceptional contribution of Catholic religious sisters to the anti-trafficking movement at the inaugural Sisters Anti-Trafficking Awards, or SATAs.