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ISJC Prayer Diary
Commissioner MacMillan's prayer diary will help you support through prayer social justice initiatives around the world and especially the work of the ISJC.
Prayer Diary
Principles of Justice
Download the presentation and facilitator's guidelines for the Principles of Justice workshop here.
Principles of Justice
Positional Statement : Human Trafficking
The International Positional Statement on Human Trafficking is now available on-line in both English and Spanish.
Human Trafficking
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Sex-Slave Survivor and The Salvation Army Bring Awareness to Human Trafficking
When 21-year-old Timea Nagy arrived in Toronto to earn a living as a waitress, her passport was taken, she was kidnapped, controlled, and forced to work in the sex-trade industry. Now, 10 years later, she shares her harrowing ordeal in an attempt to save trafficked victims through education and awareness. Read Timea's story at salvationist.ca.
ISJC News Reports
Salvation Army and Other Faith-Based Organizations in Policy Discussions with United Nations Population Fund
The Salvation Army joined with other faith-based organizations in early August 2009 in a round table discussion with UNFP.
ISJC Addresses Pan-American Conference of Salvation Army Leaders
Dr James Read, ISJC Senior Policy Analyst, was guest speaker at the
Salvation Army Pan-American Leaders Conference in São Paulo, Brazil,
21-23 October 2009.
New Video on Human Trafficking from the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada’s Centre for Faith and Public Life
has just released a three minute video clip to inform and alert
congregations and youth groups to the issue of human trafficking around
the world.
USA: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
On 2 December 2009, the UN's ‘International Day for the Abolition of Slavery’, the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the ‘United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others’ with a unique and imaginative Abolition Day project.
Australia: Poverty and Justice Bible launched by Prime Minister of Australia
‘The Poverty and Justice Bible’ is published by the Bible
Society in association with World Vision Australia.
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) creates a taskforce on human trafficking
In a press release in August, 2009, The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) announced it has recently created a taskforce on human trafficking in an effort to raise awareness across the WEA community that represents 420 million evangelical Christians worldwide.
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Start Freedom is a global campaign for schools and young people, to help them become aware of the issues surrounding human trafficking and realise their power to make a difference.
Start Freedom, Stop the Traffik
The ISJC teamed with Steve Chalke of Stop the Traffik, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and UN GIFT to enable filming of a video highlighting the plight of young victims of human trafficking.
Launched on 14 October, 2009, the short video Start Freedom, Stop the Traffik challenges young people to devise ways of creating their own message to raise awareness of trafficking in their local communities
Start Freedom Website
At www.startfreedom.org people can sign up and get resources in eight languages. These include lesson plans and teaching resources. Young people will be encouraged to use these resources to take the message into their communities – from New York to Bombay – in creative ways such as film, drama, music, writing and art.
During the Global Start Freedom Week (March 2010) young people from all over the world will have an opportunity to share the different and creative ways in which they've marked their objection to trafficking via the Start Freedom Website.
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Les filles de l'Est
Philippe Decourroux is a Christian musician in Switzerland whose work denounces the scandal of human trafficking. More...