Tes­ti­mo­ny of the win­ners of the sis­ters anti-traf­fick­ing awards 2024: reli­gious sis­ters’ best practices

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JULLY 3 — 2024—In the 20th cen­tu­ry, many Catholic reli­gious orders estab­lished pro­grams to com­bat human traf­fick­ing. Guid­ed by a belief in uni­ver­sal human dig­ni­ty, sis­ters refuse to aban­don any­one need­ing help. Arise, UISG, and the Con­rad N. Hilton Foun­da­tion co-host the annu­al Sis­ters’ Anti-Traf­fick­ing Awards. The select­ed lau­re­ates will be wel­comed at the award cer­e­mo­ny in Rome on 23 May 2024.

You can access addi­tion­al doc­u­ments by click­ing on the fol­low­ing link:
https://kdrive.infomaniak.com/app/share/111675/f5094ec6-a027-4767-bc33-3aff1f437d63

Links to down­load full-text inter­ven­tion in Eng­lish, French, Ger­man, Ital­ian, Russ­ian, Span­ish, and Sim­pli­fied Chi­nese:
https://kdrive.infomaniak.com/app/share/111675/5ca0519e-4919–42dc-9276–6c4fdc5c5dc9

Speak­ers:
1. Open­ing Remarks by Pro­fes­sor Michel Veuthey, Ambas­sador of the Sov­er­eign Order of Mal­ta, to mon­i­tor and com­bat traf­fick­ing in per­sons
2. Sr Anne Vic­to­ry: Mem­ber of the Humil­i­ty of Mary (HM) Lead­er­ship Team for 4 years. Direc­tor of edu­ca­tion and founder of Col­lab­o­ra­tive to End Human Traf­fick­ing. In 2007, Sr. Anne helped estab­lish the Col­lab­o­ra­tive to End Human Traf­fick­ing in Cleve­land, Ohio, focus­ing on edu­ca­tion, advo­ca­cy, and con­nect­ing ser­vices for traf­ficked indi­vid­u­als. She was cru­cial in devel­op­ing aware­ness pro­grams and action­able steps for the com­mu­ni­ty. As a found­ing mem­ber of US Catholic Sis­ters Against Human Traf­fick­ing (now Alliance to End Human Traf­fick­ing), Sr. Anne col­lab­o­rates with Tal­itha Kum to address traf­fick­ing’s root caus­es.
3. Sr. Grasy Luisa Rodrigues: Found­ing mem­ber of the new­ly formed NGO “Muk­ti Kiran” near Goa in India (Ray of Lib­er­a­tion). The orga­ni­za­tion works with the Goa Police to pre­vent human traf­fick­ing. Sr. Gra­cy has been com­bat­ing human traf­fick­ing for 13 years across Maha­rash­tra, Gujarat, and Goa. She focus­es on pro­tect­ing mar­gin­al­ized groups, such as slum chil­dren and trans­gen­der peo­ple, by con­duct­ing aware­ness ses­sions.
4. Sr. Marie Claude Naddaf: Region­al Coor­di­na­tor of Wells of Hope, part of the Tal­itha Kum Net­work in the Mid­dle East. Upon assum­ing the role of Moth­er Supe­ri­or at the Good Shep­herd Con­vent in Dam­as­cus in 1994, 2 years lat­er, she estab­lished Syr­i­a’s inau­gur­al facil­i­ty for traf­fick­ing and domes­tic vio­lence sur­vivors, the “Oasis Shel­ter.” Its suc­cess led to addi­tion­al shel­ters backed by full gov­ern­ment sup­port. Sr. Marie Claude also intro­duced Syr­i­a’s first wom­en’s hot­line, offer­ing round-the-clock coun­sel­ing, legal assis­tance, and tem­po­rary shel­ter. Her advo­ca­cy led to a piv­otal shift in the gov­ern­men­t’s approach, from view­ing traf­fick­ing sur­vivors as crim­i­nals to rec­og­niz­ing them as vic­tims deserv­ing of support.

You can also access the video of this webi­nar avail­able with trans­la­tions in French, Ital­ian, Ger­man, Span­ish, Russ­ian and Chi­nese on the adlaudatosi web­site: www.adlaudatosi.org

The webi­na­rs are orga­nized by the Ambas­sador of the Sov­er­eign Order of Mal­ta to mon­i­tor and com­bat traf­fick­ing in per­sons with the Col­lège Uni­ver­si­taire Hen­ry-Dunant, in coop­er­a­tion with Sis­ter Mir­jam Beike, RGS, Rep­re­sen­ta­tive at the UN in Gene­va for the Sis­ters of Our Lady of Char­i­ty of the Good Shep­herd.
Please vis­it the fol­low­ing web­sites:
https://adlaudatosi.org/
https://nohumantrafficking.orderofmal…
https://www.cuhd.org
https://christusliberat.org/journal/