Call to Action: September 2024
ACRATH supports the work of many like-minded organisations both in Australia and globally. Many produce resources that can be used in a variety of settings and some have campaigns underway. Our newsletter regularly includes this page, encouraging people to find out more and consider becoming involved in actions and advocacy.
- RE Search: Catholic Response to Human Trafficking: Uncovering the scope of this terrible problem, how it happens in the modern world, and what people in schools and parishes can do about it with Sr Noelene Simmons, SM, an ACRATH member.
https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/re-search-episode-63-a-catholic-response-to-human-trafficking/
- Social Justice Statement 2024-25, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
Truth and Peace: A Gospel Word in a Violent World
https://socialjustice.catholic.org.au/2024/07/25/social-justice-statement-2024-25/
- Australian Federal Police charge man for allegedly trafficking Indonesian girl to Sydney to work in brothels
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-23/nsw-child-trafficking-indonesia-teenager-sydney-brothels/104131604
- Fijian government to meet Australian PALM workers following tragic death of Christine Lewailagi
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-20/fiji-government-investigates-palm-scheme-christine-lewailagi/104244032
- Madhu wants to help end a $230 billion industry. Here’s what she wants you to know
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/madhu-wants-to-help-end-a-230-billion-industry-heres-what-she-wants-you-to-know/p76b9sjo6
- A missing boy spurs Church groups to fight trafficking in Argentina
https://www.oursundayvisitor.com/missing-boys-case-spurs-church-groups-to-unite-to-combat-human-trafficking-in-argentina/
- Victorian mother jailed for forcing daughter to marry man who murdered her six weeks later
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-29/shepparton-forced-marriage-mother-sentence/104153804
- Talitha Kum: Pacific Islands
https://www.talithakum.info/en/news/news-from-network-talitha-kum-pacific-islands
- Forced into scamming, trafficking survivors in Zambia recover with sisters’ help
https://www.globalsistersreport.org/news/forced-scamming-trafficking-survivors-zambia-recover-sisters-help
- The Australian Ethical Consumer Report
https://baptistworldaid.org.au/resources/ethical-consumer-report/
- 20,000 workers given weeks to leave Philippines after ban on gambling operations linked to scams
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-26/philippine-offshore-gaming-operators-pogo-workers-leaving/104147866
- Foreign diplomat ordered to pay more than $500,000 to a former domestic worker in wage exploitation case
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-16/former-deputy-high-commissioner-sri-lanka-to-pay-unpaid-wages/104226080
- Patients become prey in fight against organ trafficking bazaars
https://www.acu.edu.au/about-acu/news/2024/august/patients-become-prey-in-fight-against-organ-trafficking-bazaars
- Stop Trafficking Newsletter
https://sistersagainsttrafficking.org/stop-trafficking-newsletter
- Be Slavery Free
https://www.beslaveryfree.com
