Please join us on Monday, November 14 at 7:00pm in the Social Hall for a talk and discussion with Sr. Carole Lombard, the Director of Peace and Justice, Sisters of St. Joseph (Boston) and a member of the Boston Unit of the Leadership of Women Religious Task Force on Human Trafficking. Human trafficking is modern-day slavery! The United Nations defines human trafficking as:
…the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.
Victims of human trafficking are young children, teenagers, adult men and women. There are an estimated 700,000 sufferers annually, people brought across international borders illegally and almost always in violation of all standards of human decency and basic justice. Thus it is a serious human rights issue, a terrible problem with national and local ramification that should be of concern to all.
For more information: Call Marcia Grondin (781-237-6249) Email: affc@stjohnwellesley.org Visit: www.stjohnwellesley.org
