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'Perhaps in no region of the world do migration and trafficking intersect with such hazard to the vulnerable as they do in the Asia Pacific region. Thus when the December 2008 Good Shepherd Asia Pacific Intercontinental Assembly (ICA) named trafficking and migration as two of its four priorities, there was a deep resonance to local reality and to existent Good Shepherd ministries.'
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News to Share from around the Network
more shared information at theAsia PAcific news page
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Cathrin S. Rgs
'Story of Lily' |
Weta gerak
( empowering Women and Children, Good Shepherd service, Ruteng, Flores). |
Batam, 5 Maret 2009
Rita rgs |
TANTANGAN DALAM MELAYANI |
Mau |
The Many Faces of Trafficking in Women and Children.doc (not linked yet...sorry) |
Katherine Ward |
A series of information - in french, english, spanish click here |
Winifred March 09 |
Trafficking for Sex - Crime of Shame -
By Swanee Hunt |
| Angela Savage with feedback Antonia & Pranee |
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Project Respect |
Letter to Justices of Australia and Womens Statement |
| sr Joan rgs |
1. here in Pattaya Sr Supaporn and Sr Jintina ,who work in our women's project, have been invited to three government schools this month to share on Trafficking
2. The priests of the Diocese of Bangkok have invited both sisters to explain about our Good Shepherd work and also about trafficking
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Article from "Forced Migration Review" Issue 30 April 20 on 'Burma's Displaced People.'
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1. Discussion paper for Asia Pacific Circle re establishment of a Good Shepherd (GS) Asia Pacific Anti Trafficking network
Click here to download the full copy of this discussion paper, written at the Cebu meeting in July 2007 and editted for the Sri Lankan meeting in September 2007.
2. A Good Shepherd shelter network?
Click here to download the full copy of this discussion paper written for the Asia Pacific Circle meeting in Sri Lanka in September 2007. This paper explores the possibility of establishing an Asia Pacific network of shelters for trafficked women.
3. Dutch Foundation of Religious against Trafficking in Women (SRTV)
Click here to download Transactions Newsletter (Jubilee edition) from January 2007
4. Joint Statement prepared by NGOs from Thailand, Cambodia and Australia for the 34th Session of CEDAW in January 2006
Click here to download
5. On the Catholic Religious Australia website there is an article about the
July 2007 trafficking Conference in Cebu attended by Christine and Tania.
The
link is:
http://catholicreligiousaustralia.org/en/122
6. A Statistical Methods for Estimating Numbers of Trafficking Victims
Click here to download the full copy of this report written for SIREN methodology Strategic Information Response Network; SIREN is an initiative supported by United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP)
7. The Australian Institute of Criminology has released a Trends & issues paper about law enforcement responses to people trafficking:
Law enforcement responses to trafficking in persons: challenges and emerging good practice Fiona David Trends & issues in crime and criminal justice series no. 347 http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi2/tandi347.html
The paper identifies some of the practical challenges likely to confront law enforcement in trying to detect, investigate and prosecute cases of trafficking as well as some of the strategies being used to address the challenges.
A complete list of AIC publications is available at http://www.aic.gov.au
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'Eighty percent of trafficking victims are sold for sex.'
In the midst of the bitter winter of a failing global economy, the United Nations is calling the world's citizens to recognize the plight of the most vulnerable: slaves.
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