Click here to access the January 2016 issue of the Stop Trafficking newsletter. This issue focuses on partnerships among organizations that work to end human trafficking.
You may also recall that this month is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month and that January 11 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day (designated by the U.S. Senate in 2007). Resources for these observances were in the December 2015 issue of the Stop Trafficking Newsletter and are available here.
The website of US Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking -- available here -- might be helpful to you, also.
With everything that's available to us, we should be able to find at least one way to mark January 11. However, if you miss that commemoration for some reason (and even if you do not miss it), remember that the International Day of Prayer and Awareness Against Human Trafficking (declared by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the International Union of Superiors General) is on February 8 (Feast of St. Josephine Bakhita).
If you are more of a "summer commemorator," the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (declared by the United Nations) is observed on July 30.
January 11, February 8, July 30 . . . that's pretty much for us to remember! Rather than getting caught up in the dates, could we resolve to do one simple thing to increase our awareness, advocacy and action? Remember that Catholic Sisters have led and continue to lead the efforts to stop human trafficking. Our efforts will continue to bear fruit by the grace of God and the prayers and actions -- no matter how large or small -- of all of us.
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