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Caritas statement on human trafficking

29/08/2010 Advocacy, Asia, Female face of migration, India, Migration, Nepal, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

Sanumaya Tamang and Sani Tam-ang were both 16 when they were taken to brothels in India. More than 10,000 women and children form Nepal are trafficked into India every year. Internal conflict, poverty, illiteracy and unemployment in Nepal are the root causes of the problem. In India, Caritas is working with authorities to toughen government ...

Pan Asia campaign against trafficking

29/08/2010 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

Alice was 25 when she left her job in Manila, the Philippines. She is a qualified civil engineer, yet her salary was not enough to pay for her four brothers and sisters to go through school. When she saw an advertisement offering well-paid posts as civil engineers in Kuwait, she contacted the recruitment agency immediately. ...

Trafficking in Bosnia and Herzegovina

29/08/2010 Advocacy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe, Female face of migration, Migration, Trafficking by Caritas Communications

In the middle of 1990 people trafficking became a very serious and complicated problem in the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, such as Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Migrant domestic workers campaign

29/08/2010 Advocacy, Domestic servitude, Europe, Female face of migration, Labor exploitation, Migration by Caritas Communications

They look after your children, they clean your kitchen and hang your washing but often they are invisible. For many migrant domestic workers around the world the law doesn’t protect them and their rights are trampled underfoot. They are often women and they work long hours for low pay. They have little economic security and ...

A way home for a Ukrainian mother

27/08/2010 Advocacy, Europe, Female face of migration, Migration, Ukraine by Caritas Communications

Olga had left her three children in the Ukraine to find work in Belgium.When she realised there could be opportunities to return to the Ukraine and set up a business in her home town, she turned to Caritas. Caritas Belgium’s repatriation programme gives returnees help in finding a home and a way to make money. ...

Empowering the poor in Europe

16/08/2010 Advocacy, Development, Europe, SDG by Caritas Communications

European Caritas members set up various projects to help the poor. Some provided specific rehabilitation initiatives for particular sectors of the population such as street children, the mentally ill or homeless women. Others offered advice, a meeting place or a hot meal to anybody in need. Caritas not only provided food, shelter and basic necessities ...

Stamping out corruption

16/08/2010 Advocacy, Aid Success Story, Development, Governance, Poverty Elimination, SDG by Caritas Communications

Caritas is joining other faith-based aid agencies and religious leaders in calling for action on stamping out global corruption. In a letter to the UN Secretary General, over 50 faith leaders and agency directors say corruption is a major cause of poverty in developing countries and a major barrier to overcoming it. They say both ...

AIDS Conference in Vienna: We need to move forward on HIV

23/07/2010 Advocacy, Austria, Europe, Health, HIV & AIDS by Caritas Communications

Msgr. Robert J. Vitillo, the Special Advisor on HIV/AIDS for Caritas Internationalis, spoke about the recent challenges in combating HIV and AIDS, on the occasion of the upcoming World AIDS Conference in Vienna (18-23 July 2010). Is the world facing up to the challenge of responding to HIV AIDS? I fear that the world is ...

AIDS conference in Vienna with call for more funding

19/07/2010 Advocacy, Austria, Europe, Health, HIV & AIDS by Caritas Communications

The 18th international Aids conference in Vienna ended Friday with one strong message: Despite the financial crisis the fight against HIV/AIDS must not decrease. “We are just at the end of the beginning,” said former US President Bill Clinton in his speech. At least 25,000 people from all over the world took part in this ...

Empowering Oceania

30/06/2010 Advocacy, Climate Change, Food, Oceania by Caritas Communications

By Tim Walsh, Caritas Oceania A workshop organized by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) was held during the first week of June in Rarotonga, the capital of the Cook Islands. The aim was to improve the coordination of both the emergency and the gradual response to weather events as ...