Informative Resources

(Please note these resources are provided for reference only, we do not necessarily endorse all the views or content in each one, nor have we ‘vetted’ any volunteering suggestions).

• ‘Human Trafficking and Slavery: A response from Australian Catholics’  Series Paper 79  by Christine Carolan and Noelene Simmons SM.
• Online Anti-Slavery Course – Anti-Slavery Australia
• Submission of Australian Catholic Bishops Conference to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement, 19 February 2016.
• ‘Act Justly’  July 2015 issue
• ‘I am Miriam’ video from Against Humanity
• Anti-slavery free online course
• ‘I have a voice:  trafficking of women in their own words’  by Angela Reed & Marietta Latonio ; artwork by Sr Venus Marie Pegar.
• ‘One in a Thousand Stories’ by Salesian Brother David O’Brien (contact dobrien@salesians.org.au).
• ‘Roots of Human Trafficking.  Reflections with Pope Francis’  Resource prepared by the Sisters of the Holy Cross.
• Child Labour Guidance Tool for Business ( How to do business with respect for children’s right to be free from child labour), International Labour Organisation 2015 ILO-IOE Child Labour Guidance_Web_20151224
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  US Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking.
• ‘Praying the Stations of the Cross for victims of human trafficking’  prepared by the Anti-Trafficking Program of the Migration and Refugee Services Department of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
• ‘What is Fairtrade?’  Resource from Fairtrade Australia.
• ‘Inspirational People’, ANZRATH
• ‘ACRATH Develops Forced Marriage Education Kit’, Blog from Catholic Religious Australia
• ‘Migrant crisis: Australia to launch anti-human trafficking and slavery strategy’, Jewel Topsfield, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 March 2016
• ‘To Be a Pebble in the Shoe of People with Power’, Sarah Puls SGS, The Good Oil, 20 September 2016.
• Statements by the Most Rev. Anthony Fisher OP on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking:
  • Address of the Archbishop of Sydney, Most Rev. Anthony Fisher OP, to the Select Committee of the Legislative Council of New South Wales on Human Trafficking – Parliament House (28 March 2017)
  • THE STATE OF OUR DEMOCRACY SYDNEY CATHOLIC BUSINESS NETWORK (31 March 2017)
  • HOMILY FOR MASS FOR THE FEAST OF ST. JOSEPHINE BAKHITA – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney (8 February 2018)
  • STATEMENT ON THE RESPONSE OF THE CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF SYDNEY TO MODERN SLAVERY – Cathedral House, Sydney (8 February 2018)
  • Address to the Anti-Slavery Ethical Sourcing Seminar and Expo (8 February 2019)
  • Homily for the Mass for the Feast of St Josephine Bakhita (8 February 2019)
• “Hidden in Plain Sight“, Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade, Inquiry into establishing a Modern Slavery Act in Australia.
• International Labour Organisation Report “Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labour and Forced Marriage“.
• The Catholic Perspective on Slavery  – Developed by the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney’s Justice and Peace Office and Anti-Slavery Taskforce
• The Archdiocese of Sydney’s Anti-Slavery Taskforce’s Modern Slavery Legislation in Australia during 2018 Summary and Perspectives
• “Human Trafficking” – The Pope Video 2 – February 2019
• Consult the Archdiocese of Sydney’s Shop for Good initiative before purchasing certain products.

Getting Involved

• Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking of Humans (ACRATH)
• Aotearoa New Zealand Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ANZRATH)
• Anti-Slavery Australia (University of Technology, Sydney)
• Coatnet (Christian Organisations Against Trafficking in Human Beings)
• Josephite Counter-Trafficking Project
• Bridgidine Sisters
• UNANIMA International
• Talitha Kum
• Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET)
• Immigrant Women’s Speakout Association
• Stop the Traffik
• Apostleship of the Sea Australia
• End Slavery
• Against Humanity
• Girls not Brides
• Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia
• Fairtrade Australia
• Ethica homewares and accessories (Mary MacKillop International).
• Responsible Investing, Australian Catholic Superannuation Retirement Fund
• Slavery Free Easter Chocolate – ‘Join ACRATH’s slavery-free Easter chocolate campaign’, Catholic Religious Australia blog 2016.
• UN World Day Against Child Labour (12 June)
• UN World Day against Trafficking of Persons (30 July 2017)
• Fair Trade Fortnight (4-17 August 2017)
• 16 days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence

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