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Posted on January 5th, 2018 By

Rescuing victims of Human Trafficking is uppermost in the minds and hearts of the staff at The Missing Person’s Families Support Centre in Lithuania.

 

Rescuing victims of Human Trafficking is uppermost in the minds and hearts of the staff at The Missing Person’s Families Support Centre in Lithuania, who shared with us that they started the New Year issuing an alert to the public, as an 18 year old girl disappeared on 1 January, 2018 and is  presumed trafficked.
The Centre continues to collaborate with Civil Society and Government in order to reduce those who fall victim to human trafficking and plans on holding  a number of collaborative initiatives throughout the coming year.
More information about the work at the Centre, at:  http://www.missing.lt
Prepared by Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications.

Posted on January 5th, 2018 By

McMafia: The scale of human trafficking in numbers

 

A valuable visual resource has been prepared by the BBC, as part of the McMafia Drama series, available at http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-42428708/mcmafia-the-scale-of-human-trafficking-in-numbers
While the latest UN official figures indicate that more than 18,000 people are victims of human trafficking every year, the true scale of the trade in human lives is thought to be much greater than these numbers.
McMafia is broadcast on BBC One TV and available after broadcast on the BBC iPlayer. The next episode is at 21:00 on Sunday, 7 January, 2018.
Video produced by Sandra Rodriguez Chillida and Lucy Rodgers.
Adapted by Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications.
 

Posted on January 5th, 2018 By

"A book that needs to be taken very seriously" — Philip North —Bishop of Burnley. "Challenging lessons for the modern church" — Michael Turnbull —Bishop of Durham, (1994-2003).

 

“A book that needs to be taken very seriously” — Philip North —Bishop of Burnley.
“Challenging lessons for the modern church” — Michael Turnbull —Bishop of Durham, (1994-2003).
These are just a sample of the commendations on the recent publication Mission From Below – Growing a Kingdom Community, by Dr. Janet Hodgson and Stephen Conway (foreword), about two servant leaders, (Loreto Sisters, Imelda Poole, RENATE President and Philippa Green ) and the way in which they transformed the lives of those living in one of the most socially deprived communities in the north east of England.
Working alongside the members of the local communities, they helped people confront numerous injustices and  improve their lives, giving expression to the power of what can be achieved from the ground up, to secure Kingdom growth.
More at: https://www.sacristy.co.uk/books/theology/mission-from-below
Prepared by Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications.
 

Posted on December 7th, 2017 By
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Two Weeks in Anti Trafficking Work in India – November, 2017 – Albania Links with India.

A Report from Imelda Poole IBVM who presented at the Anti Trafficking Conference, 175th Jubilee Celebrations of the IBVM Indian Province.
 

 
India had always been a country I had been drawn to go to on mission and I had volunteered many years ago.  Now many years later here I am in a small part of the NE of India, impacted in a way I could never have imagined. The huge numbers of people, the noises, the smells and the dire poverty was the first explosion on my psyche that first afternoon travelling from the airport in Kolkata to Loreto House right in the middle of the city.
I was just one night in Kolkata at Loreto House, where I experienced wonderful hospitality and then I returned to the airport.  The journey to the airport, once again left a huge impact. I witnessed many people inside walled latrines performing their morning ablutions on the sides of the streets. Private wash places, I soon discovered, was a luxury in most places where I visited. A huge number of street vendors were cooking for the day and the aromas were mouth-watering at every turn of corner. The streets were buzzing with a million rickshaws, small motors, market sellers and hundreds of tiny kiosks. These filled every nook and cranny and sold everything you would ever want to buy. The cows meandered through it all.
My first stay after Kolkata was in Ranchi where there is a Loreto school and where the cultural welcome included felicitations with flowers scattered over us, a washing of hands and a garland laid across my neck.  This ritual was repeated so many times during my wonderful stay in this beautiful place. Please click here to read the full report.
 
Click here to hear RENATE President, Imelda Poole, speak about the role of NGOs and CSOs in addressing the Mary Ward Loreto Conference on Anti-Human Trafficking.
 

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Project IRENE, (IL Religious Engaging in Nonviolent Endeavors)

 

 

 
Project IRENE, (IL Religious Engaging in Nonviolent Endeavors),  an initiative of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in Illinois, USA, to impact systems change beneficial for women and children, reflect on the successes of the past year in combatting human trafficking and incorporate them into their ADVENT Liturgy, which is shared below.
Feel free to adapt the Human Trafficking 2018 document, to suit your own jurisdiction.
Please click the links below to read:
(a) Declaration by the Religious Leaders against Modern Slavery;
(b) Stories of Support for Victims of Human Trafficking;
(c) The Liturgy.
More information about Project IRENE at:  
projectirene@aol.com   |   www.projectirene.org
www.facebook.com/projectirene
Prepared by Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications.   
 
 

Posted on December 7th, 2017 By

Reader of the Declaration

 

This Declaration of Religious Leaders Against Modern Slavery was endorsed by Anglican, Buddhist, Catholic, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, and Orthodox religious leaders.
 “We, the undersigned, are gathered here today for a historic initiative to inspire spiritual and practical action by all global faiths and people of good will everywhere to eradicate modern slavery across the world by 2020 and for all time. In the eyes of God*, each human being is a free person, whether girl, boy, woman or man, and is destined to exist for the good of all in equality and fraternity. Modern slavery, in terms of human trafficking, forced labour and prostitution, organ trafficking, and any relationship that fails to respect the fundamental conviction that all people are equal and have the same freedom and dignity, is a crime against humanity. We pledge ourselves here today to do all in our power, within our faith communities and beyond, to work together for the freedom of all those who are enslaved and trafficked so that their future may be restored. Today we have the opportunity, awareness, wisdom, innovation and technology to achieve this human and moral imperative.”  2nd December, 2014.
 (*The Grand Imam of Al Azhar uses the word “religions”.)
 

Posted on December 7th, 2017 By

IOM`s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre GMDAC

 

 

 
The latest from the IOM Missing Migrants project reveals startling statistics regarding the deaths of migrants. In a review of the following areas, ‘’Fatalities by month,’’ ‘’Recorded migrant deaths by region,’’ ‘’Recorded migrant deaths by region of origin’’ and ‘’Top causes of death in 2017,’’ the research tracks incidents involving migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers, who have died or gone missing whilst in the process of migration towards and international destination.  
More at: http://missingmigrants.iom.int/
Prepared by Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications. 

Posted on December 1st, 2017 By

17-19 November, 2017- Bakhita Network training days, Poland.

 

 
 

 
Aneta Grabowska, RENATE Secretary, shares with us an account of the training by the Bakhita Network in Poland, which took place in Czestochowa, 17-19th November 2017. The report was prepared by one of the French speaking sisters attending the programme and the report is also available in Polish, at:  http://www.siecbakhita.com/index.php/wiadomosci/150-byc-o-krok-przed-warsztaty-zrealizowane-przez-siec-bakhita
There is a photo gallery at:  http://www.siecbakhita.com/index.php/component/phocagallery/category/19-byc-krok-przed-warszataty 
Adapted by Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications.
 

 

 

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