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- Sep 20, 2019
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Growth threatens lifestyle in Amazon’s Afro-Brazilian societies
- Catholic News Service, Church in the Americas
- Aug 11, 2019
In Brazil, “quilombolos,” as the residents of quilombos are known, still suffer from the racism and discrimination that made the brutal slave trade possible in the first place.
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Women who were trafficked find relief at London’s Bakhita House
- Catholic News Service, Church in UK and Ireland
- Jun 20, 2019
A ministry of the Archdiocese of Westminster and Caritas Westminster, Bakhita House provides women who have fled from their captors with safety and support and allows them to recover from their ordeal.
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Pakistan police seek to unravel networks trafficking women
- Associated Press, Church in Asia
- Jun 17, 2019
With waves of arrests, Pakistani investigators are trying to unravel trafficking networks that convince impoverished Pakistanis to marry off their daughters to Chinese men for cash, and they say evidence is growing that many of the women and girls are sold into prostitution once in China.
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Sold into marriage, Christian Pakistani women endure rapes in China
- Associated Press, Church in Asia
- Jun 17, 2019
Hundreds of Pakistani girls have been married off to Chinese men in return for cash payments to their families, most of them Christians, a community that is among the poorest of the poor in the country.
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Catholic refugee agency says UK ‘seriously failing’ trafficking victims
- Church in UK and Ireland
- May 26, 2019
Britain is “seriously failing” human trafficking victims, according to the head of the Jesuit Refugee Service UK.
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English cardinal: Human slavery ‘as deep as ever, just in different forms’
- Vatican
- Apr 16, 2019
The UK’s top Cardinal believes slavery is just as deep as ever, as evidenced by human trafficking.
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