Trafficking in Women and Children

Trafficking of human beings is a crime against humanity which requires a response, particularly from those who want to stand in solidarity with the most needy in our world. The international community has declared trafficking as a crime and countries are at various stages of implementing legislation to enshrine the UN Protocol which defines trafficking as:

‘Trafficking in persons’ shall mean the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.

(Article 3, UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime)

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Women and the Church

On 3 September 2010 Mary Coloe pbvm delivered the Inaugural Morgan Howe Memorial Address in Brisbane Australia. Click here to read Mary’s address: “A matter of justice and necessity”: Women’s Participation: A Prophetic Challenge to the Contemporary Church.

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Fair Trade

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Climate Change

Click here to download a Powerpoint Show on Climate Change (3.4MB)
Click here to download a Powerpoint Show on Ecological Conversion (1.8MB)

Both of these presentations have been compiled by Annette Shears pbvm following the Climate Change – Our responsibility to protect God’s Earth Conference held in Canberra Australia in November 2005.