Melanie O'Connor
ASIN: B00OUGWRFG
Publisher: Cluster Publications
Pages: 78
Human trafficking- modern day slavery—has become one of the most serious evils of our time. Women and girl and boy children are shipped around the world like cattle in order that sexual predators can profit from their enslavement. Lamentably, South Africa is both a prime destination and a point of transit for Europe and other parts of the world.This book clearly and powerfully describes the factors that drive human trafficking, who is trafficked and why, and analyses the gender dimensions of trafficking. The author, who is the director of the Counter Trafficking in Persons Office of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference and the Leadership Conference of Consecrated Life, includes stories of women who have escaped and their harrowing tales.The powerful statements of various church bodies against trafficking are presented, together with theological analysis of this scourge. In ...