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The ISJC is The Salvation Army's strategic voice to advocate for human dignity and social justice on behalf of the world's poor and oppressed.
ISJC Features
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
Trata de Personas
Downloads and Resources
Around the Army World...
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
Online Conference Scheduled for March 2010
‘Speak Out’ is an online conference about advocacy and social
justice. It is jointly sponsored and managed by the International
Social Justice Commission and The Salvation Army's Ethics Centre.
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.
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Media
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 Start Freedom, Stop the Traffik, a video highlighting the plight of victims of human trafficking and challenging young people to devise ways of creating their own message to raise awareness of trafficking in their local communities
Start Freedom Website
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 (www.startfreedom.org).
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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...