Catholic organizations, from women’s religious orders to corporate watchdog groups, are working on many fronts to stem the scourge – and the crime – of human trafficking. The two most common aspects of human trafficking are sex trafficking and forced labor, although some are victimized by both.
But two persons interviewed by Catholic News Service also warned of the growing prevalence of organ trafficking on the black market; the practice was depicted in the 2002 movie “Dirty Pretty Things.” Women religious have been on the front lines fighting human trafficking, and over the past decade, united their efforts under the name U.S.
Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking. It is part of a worldwide organization called Talitha Kum, named after Jesus’ words to Jairus’s daughter, whom her family believed to be dead: “Little girl, get up.”
