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Brigidine News January 06
Given our commitment to Celebrating the sacred: compassion and justice for humanity and the earth, we have a special concern for displaced people. Amongst the most vulnerable of displaced persons in our world today are the victims of human trafficking... Council of the Congregation
JUNE 6-15, 2005
at Anderley Lodge, North Sydney
"Have the fearlessness to face the challenges of our time and the grace to bring to all creation the gooness and loving kindness of Our Lord Jesus Christ." Regional Assembly Aotearoa New Zealand
Greetings to you all.
Chanel, our Province Leader led us through the day that began with a beautifully prepared liturgy, by Chanel...
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Brigidine News January 06
Initiative to counter Human Trafficking
Given our commitment to Celebrating the sacred: compassion and justice for humanity and the earth, we have a special concern for displaced people. Amongst the most vulnerable of displaced persons in our world today are the victims of human trafficking.
In Australia the Brigidine Sisters are partners in the Religious Congregations’ Anti-Trafficking Working Group which has prepared a report to the United Nations regarding Australia’s approach to human trafficking. The report has been dedicated to the victims of human trafficking who have been enslaved and sexually exploited in Australia.
This report was presented to the United Nations Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on 23 January 2006 though the auspices of UNANIMA International (our NGO), the Congregation of the Good Shepherd and International Presentation Association. The report commends the Australian Government’s recent efforts to combat trafficking and calls for further progress to be made. It urges the UN committee to recommend that the Australian Government:
- Takes a human rights based, victim-centred approach to human trafficking.
- Provides human trafficking victims with visas based on the victim’s need for protection and assistance. (Currently the grant of visas to human trafficking victims depends almost entirely on the person’s usefulness to criminal investigations and prosecutions).
- Establishes anti-trafficking working groups made up of government, non-government organisations, lawyers and law enforcement to share information and research and develop counter-trafficking initiatives and optimal victim support programs.
The full report can be read by clicking here. (pdf)
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