The Australian Response to Human Trafficking Stop The Traffik coalition, of which ACRATH is a founding member, is organising this public meeting to hear what is being done in Australia to eliminate human trafficking. The Salvation Army in Sydney h...

What Role do Women/Girls and Men/Boys Play in the Process Professor Bob Pease, School of Heath and Social Development at Deakin University, will be the presenter at a seminar entitled "Understanding and Addressing the Demand Side of Trafficking.  The...

ACRATH Member Speaks to  Geraldton Gathering On the 26th of March the local community in Geraldton, WA hosted a forum on Human Trafficking. The forum was prompted by a number of newspaper articles in the Geraldton Guardian which alluded to human traf...

Latest ACRATH News The latest issue of ACRATH News begins with words from Sr Maree Marsh csb, the new chairperson of ACRATH.  She speaks of the determination of all ACRATH members in "addressing insistently at every level the exploitation of women, m...

FAIRTRADE Easter Eggs Much of the world’s chocolate is produced using cocoa beans that have been harvested by trafficked children or forced labour. The West African countries of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana are two of the largest producers and exporte...

ACRATH Members Involved in Forums The Australian Federal Police, in collaboration with the Western Australian Police and Northern Territory Police haave recently presented forums on human trafficking in a number of centres in Western Australia.  By d...

National Conference Names New National Chairperson [caption id="attachment_2202" align="alignleft" width="231" caption="Sr Louise Cleary and Sr Maree Marsh"][/caption] ACRATH members from across Australia recently gathered in Melbourne for their ...

Taking the National Agenda Forward ACRATH member will gather in Melbourne on Monday 20th February for their AGM and National Conference.  During the gathering members will review the work that has been done over the last year and devise a strategic p...

Western Australian ACRATH Concert ACRATH WA held a very successful fund raising concert on Sunday February 5th 2012 at the  Loreto Nedlands Primary School auditorium.  A crowd of over 75 attended and commented on the moving music and beautiful perfo...

ACRATH National Projects Co-ordinator Visits Geneva Christine Carolan, ACRATH National Projects Co0-ordinator, recently spent some time in Geneva.  During her time there she met with advocates against human trafficking from Franciscan Internationa...

ACRATH Members Attend Pacific Forum The Pacific Trafficking in Persons Forum was held in December 2011.  Four ACRATH members attended the Forum.  The keynote speaker was Ruth Dearnley from Stop the Traffik in the UK.  The Forum looked at the variou...

Fund Raising Concert Join ACRATH members in Western Australia for a special fund raising conference.  Courtesy of the WA Opera Soprano Merlyn Quaife and pianist Andrea Katz will perform song cycles of Roger Heagney boased on poetry by Graeme Ellis....

Inaugural Anti-Slavery Australia Freedom Awards Congratulations to Sr Pauline Col sgs and Sr Louise Cleary csb who were named as recipients of Freedom Awards at a Ceremony in Canberra this week.  The Freedom Awards were developed by Anti-Slavery Aust...

Latest ACRATH News  In the latest ACRATH Newsletter read about the Minister for Home Affairs and Justice, Brendan O'Connor MP and Mr Michael Danby MP visiting the ACRATH office, the Community Awareness Cultural and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) proje...

Raising Awareness about Human Trafficking Recently Murdoch University held an open day. Part of the display from the Law Department included a display board with information on human trafficking through question and answer. A chocolate fondue enticed ...

Minister Visits ACRATH Office Minister for Home Affairs and Justice, Brendan O’Connor, and Member for Melbourne Ports, Michael Danby, visited the office of ACRATH (Australian Catholic Religious Against the Trafficking of Humans) in Albert Park, Vi...

Australian Senators Support Harkin-Engel Protocol During their recent visit to  the Australian Federal Parliament ACRATH spoke to members of the House of Representatives and the Senate about the Harkin-Engel Protocol which aimed at eliminating the wo...

Increased Opportunity for Girls = Less Opportunity for Traffickers Providing girls with an education is one of the key components in combating human trafficking.  Of the 27million children out of primary education in impoverished countries, 16 millio...

ACRATH in Canberra Twelve ACRATH members have recently completed a successful visit to Canberra where they met with members of Federal Parliament, AusAID, the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Office for Women, the Attorney General's Departmen...

Australian Religious Seeking a Better Life for Trafficked People A group of women religious from around Australia will make their fifth annual pilgrimage to Canberra next week in a bid to influence policies affecting people trafficked into Aust...

Podcasts from Human Trafficking Forum Social Policy Connections recently hosted a forum which looked at modern day slavery.  At this forum Professor Jennifer Burn, Director of the Anti-Slavery Project, spoke of the psychological coercion that enslave...

Latest ACRATH News The latest ACRATH Newsletter gives details of recent Forums on Human Trafficking, ACRATH networking experiences with Project Respect, the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Institute of Criminology, an outline of state lev...

ACRATH Forum on Human Trafficking Over 100 people attended a recent public forum on the issue of human trafficking.  Participants were informed about the forms that human trafficking takes today - sexual servitude, forced labour and organ trafficki...

Want to help trafficked people? Don't know how to? ACRATH is holding a public meeting in Melbourne on Monday 30th May 2011. Come along and increase your awareness of this issue. For more information click here.    

Want to help trafficked people? Don't know how to? ACRATH is holding a public meeting in Melbourne on Monday 30th May 2011. Come along and increase your awareness of this issue. For more information click here.   &n...

The latest ACRATH Newsletter gives information about ACRATH activities across Australia over recent months.  You can read about ACRATH Victoria hosting a morning tea and community forum on International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slaver...

The Attorney General, the Hon Robert McClelland MP, and the Minister for Justice, the Hon Brendan O'Connor MP, recently sought public opinion on two discussion papers related to slavery and human trafficking.  You can read the submission ACRATH made o...

At ACRATH, we work hard to bring about a greater awareness on the reality of Human Trafficking...

In November 2010, 15 women religious and colleagues undertook an ACRATH networking and policy development week in Canberra. Read more in the Visual report (.pdf 920KB)

ACRATH (Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans) has been granted $350,000 funding for the next three years to contnue the fght against human trafcking. The Federal Government has announced that ACRATH is one of four non-government ...

Federal member for Adelaide Kate Ellis November 24, 2010 Minister for Home Affairs and Justice Brendan O'Connor has announced another $1.6 million will be invested in tackling human trafficking including sex and labour exploitation. The announc...

The Minister for Justice, the Hon Brendan O’Connor MP is convening the third meeting of the National Roundtable on People Trafficking in Canberra on 24th November 2010. ACRATH is one of the organisations to again be invited to attend the Roundtable m...

ABC Radio Australia Linda Mottram November 19, 2010 The Australian government has warned that people trafficking into Australia, largely from Southeast Asia, is under reported - but there is a new report that suggests South Korea was the main sour...

Minister for Home Affairs and Justice The Hon Brendan O’Connor MP November 19, 2010 Minister for Home Affairs and Justice Brendan O’Connor today released the second annual report of the Gillard Government’s Anti-People Trafficking Interdepar...

Women religious from throughout Australia will descend on Canberra next week (November 22-24) to discuss human trafcking with federal politcians, community leaders, academics union bosses and foreign embassy staff Members of ACRATH (Australian Catholic...

Prime Minister of Australia The Hon Julia Gillard MP November 2, 2010 The first official bilateral visit to Indonesia by Prime Minister Julia Gillard underscores the closeness and the importance of the relations between the two neighbouring countr...

Congratulations to Carolyn Merry and all who supported the Cycle Against Traffik initiative. It was an outstanding success. The donations from the 2010 Cycle Against Traffik will help secure the future of the work of Tenanginaita. Here are so...

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[caption id="attachment_813" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Merlyn Quaife - "Fortune My Foe""][/caption] Last week, Melbourne opera singer, Merlyn Quaife, together with some colleagues, came to Sydney to help ACRATH. Merlyn had ...

Link between poverty & Trafficking ACRATH letter to Mr Bob McMullan MHR (Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance) regarding Millennium Development Goals.

ABC Online: Sunday Nights, First Hour Producer: Noel Debien, Dan Driscoll April 6, 2008 Exactly a year ago on Sunday Night our guest was American Award-winning journalist David Batstone, and author of "Not for Sale: the return of the Global Slave ...