On 21 May 2019 our colleagues at Amaranta Fundación de Solidaridad commenced teaching the Professional Association of Social Workers in Madrid, an introduction to the course on the Detection of Victims of Human Trafficking.

This initiative promoted by the Community in Madrid within the framework of its Anti-Trafficking Strategy, is giving Amaranta the opportunity to train different Professional Associations in the field of social issues and specifically, to help frontline workers detect and play their part in prevention and combatting Human Trafficking.

Last week Amaranta Fundación de Solidaridad concluded its training with the Professional College of Educators and Social Educators. This was a joint training activity in conjunction with the  Esperanza Adoratrices Project , which facilitates face-to-face praxis, thereby making the online part of the training more dynamic.

Congratulations to our colleagues, on wonderful work to inform, train and enable as many as possible to play their part in the work to combat human trafficking.

More below:

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Prepared by Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications.

Mercy Global Action hold session 2 of their Webinars centred on the publication Inherent Dignity, Friday 24 May 2019, from 09:00 – 10:00, (14:00 GMT; 15:00 CEST; 16:00 EEST).

Published by Mercy International Association, Inherent Dignity is an advocacy guidebook to preventing trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and realising the human rights of women and girls throughout their lives.

During the webinar, Angela Reed rsm and Amanda Lyons, J.D. will explore the common patterns of human rights violations that occur during human trafficking. They will also discuss governmental obligations to prevent trafficking as set out in key international and regional human rights instruments.

Register for Session Two here

Find out more about the series here

Register to watch the recording of Session One here

Download the flyer here

Download the publication here

Messages to: Angela Reed rsm – MIA-MGA Coordinator

Adapted by Anne Kelleher, with gratitude to MGA.

Rev Dr Carrie Pemberton Ford (conducted the RENATE Child Trafficking Mapping Exercise, 2017/2018) shares news  of the forthcoming Summer Symposium on the several ‘Rs’ of Human Trafficking  (Risks, Rewards, Research, Rights, Responsibilities, Refugees, Religion, Revenues, Roots, Referrals, Removals) on offer at the Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking , at Cambridge University in the UK, 1-5 July 2019.

Pressing questions centred on the Symposium’s theme, will be explored by leading academics, along with government advisers and policy makers, prosecutors and police, gathered from the UK, Europe, North Americas, Asia and Africa for this annual exploration into some of the prevailing and tough questions which require further exploration and enquiry, and some onward Recommendations .

‘Early Bird’ discounted places are available through registering here

For those who are interested, attendance at the full week converts into Institute of Leadership and Management credits for its Level 5 degree level qualification in Integrity in Leadership and Management.

Can’t make the whole week? Not to worry – There is the possibility of opting for a two-day special – so that you can select the days which you would like to be a part of.

More at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ccarht-summer-symposium-the-several-rs-of-trafficking-research-tickets-57938997100

Prepared by Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications.

Andante, the European Alliance of Catholic Women’s Organisations, held Study Days centred on the theme of “Women in the Church make the Difference, ’’ held in “Manastirea Parintilor Carmelitani Desculti” in Snagov, Romania. (www.carmelitanisnagov.ro)

51 participants from 14 European countries attended the Study Days, with Adina Balan, sj, officially representing RENATE. (Dr. Mary McHugh, one of the Chairs of ANDANTE, is also a RENATE member).

Originally the term ekklesia means the political assembly of citizens of an ancient Greek state. From its beginning the community that gathered around the first apostles, called out of the world and to God, included both women and men. The ANDANTE Study Days aim to support and to encourage women to be skilled members of their church.

Speakers this year included Regina Heyder from Germany, Tina Beattie from the U.K., Chantal Götz from Liechtenstein and Beke Boroka from Romania. The various workshops over the course of the Study days included attention to spirituality, to practical engagement as well as providing many moments to share with each other.

Sunday, 28 April was Orthodox Easter Sunday, and the ANDANTE delegates visited the city of Brasov, known for its black Church.

The Study Days began on Wednesday the 24th of April at 20:00 h with dinner and concluded  on Monday 29th of April after breakfast. The ANDANTE General Assembly took place during the Study days.

There were lectures and workshops on problematic church issues, on continuing education that strengthened the participants for spiritual tasks and on how women can be heard more in the church.

ANDANTE meetings offer a unique opportunity to network with women from all over Europe.

Check out  http://www.andante-europa.net/index.php/en/news-en/   for formal report which will be published in due course.

Women in the Church make the difference – Andante Study Days and General Assembly 2019.

Prepared by Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications Person.

Religious in Europe Networking against Trafficking and Exploitation.

Report from ECPAT France to help understand Nigeria Human Trafficking ”Religious, Social and Criminal groups in Trafficking of Nigerian Girls and Women.”

Véronique Olmi’s novel retells the story of a strong young woman who was exploited and dehumanized before finding herself in more merciful and hopeful circumstances…’

Véronique Olmi’s novel retells the story of a strong young woman who was exploited and dehumanized before finding herself in more merciful and hopeful circumstances. In “Bakhita,” fraught personal experiences intersect with historical and political events and time-honoured religious practices, all encompassed within the span of the protagonist’s own life — which moves from a village in late-19th-century Sudan to a convent in post-World-War-II Italy, and from slavery to sainthood.

Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter into clear and affecting prose, “Bakhita” unfolds a distinctive array of timely concerns — the subjugation of women of colour, human trafficking, female solidarity, personal and institutional conflicts that knot together issues of race, class, gender and religion — and explores them through the suffering, willpower and undiminished dignity of a small frightened girl turned resolute young woman turned gentle old nun. The novel also joins a much larger tradition of accounts of holy women and men that have been compiled over the centuries, including the “Storia Meravigliosa” (“marvelous or wonderful story”), a 1931 chronicle of Sister Josephine Bakhita’s life that was disseminated by the Italian religious order she had joined.

More at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/books/review/bakhita-veronique-olmi-roman-catholic-saint.html

Adapted by Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications.