The Talitha Kum International Coordination Committee calls on Talitha Kum networks and partners to continue the process of study, reflection, and prayer on the third systematic cause of human trafficking that was identified: Migration.

The Talitha Kum General Assembly determined three priority areas of structural injustice that must be addressed to help in the fight to end human trafficking. This package, created this September 2022, addresses the third priority which states “Unjust and inadequate immigration law and policy coupled with forced migration and displacement puts people at greater risk of being trafficked.”

In this packet, you will find the trends and challenges of migration and human trafficking, as well as a reflection rooted in the Scriptures and Catholic Ecclesial Documents. Additionally, focusing on its third priority, Talitha Kum has created a detailed discussion guide inspired by the Synodal Process to Listen, Reflect, Judge, and Act on this topic. Through supported data and research, Talitha Kum invites you to reflect on the link between migration and human trafficking and use our collective voice to promote change on the structural level.

The packet is available on our website and you can download it by clicking here below:

Talitha Kum’s Study, Prayer and Action Packet: Migration and Human Trafficking

A special thanks to Sr. Yvonne Bambara, RGS, and Sr. Abby Avelino, MM, who have engaged together in this process and written this package, enriched by the entire team of the Talitha Kum International Coordination Committee.

Photo from the gallery of the Section Migrants and Refugees.

Here there is the packet on the first priority of the final declaration of the general assembly of Talitha Kum held in Rome in September 2019.

The draft was prepared by Sr. Carmen Ugarte, osr - Talitha Kum's contact person for Latin America - and reviewed together by the Talitha Kum International Committee.

Thank you Carmen!

The packet is available on our website and you can download it by clicking here below:

Talitha Kum's Study, Prayer and Action Pack: Women and Human Trafficking

More than one year ago Talitha Kum concluded its first General Assembly. The past year washard due the pandemic. During this time the International CoordinationCommittee of Talitha Kum tried to respond to the emergencies that have been createdby covid-19.

The Talitha Kum International Committee, with great joy,  invite Talitha Kum Networks around the world to begin a process of study, reflection, prayer to be carried out together, to try to respond to the three systemic causes that we have identified as the main causes of trafficking in persons.

To be connected with “The Economy of Francesco” and the theme of the 2021 International Day of Prayer against Human Trafficking “An Economy without Trafficking”, the committee has chosen to start with the second priority – the “dominant model of neo-liberal development and unfettered capitalism creates situations of vulnerability that are exploited by recruiters, traffickers, employers and buyers”.

The packet is available on our website and you can download it by clicking here below:

Talitha Kum Study, Prayer and Action Packet: Neoliberalism and Human Trafficking in a Time of COVID

A special thanks to Sr. Colleen Jackson rsc and Sr. Ann Oestreich ihm who have prepared this beautiful initiative and have committed themselves to draw up the first draft, enriched by the entire team of the Talitha Kum International Coordination Committee.